Azelis has joined Together for Sustainability (TfS), a global initiative for sustainable supply chains. This membership follows on Azelis’ membership to UN Global Compact and Gold rating from EcoVadis, thus affirming the company’s resolute course of action to be catalyst of change when it comes to sustainable business models and become a benchmark for the industry. Azelis is now part of the global network of 25 TfS member companies who represent a global turnover in the chemical industry of 422 billion euros and a global spend of 281 billion euros.
TfS delivers the de facto global standard for environmental, social and governance performance of chemical supply chains. The TfS programme is based on the UN Global Compact and Responsible Care principles. TfS is growing into a global organisation with regional representation and strategic partnerships in Asia, North America and South America.
The TfS framework – TfS Assessments and TfS Audits – allows TfS member companies to assess the environmental, labour, and human rights, ethical and sustainable procurement performance of their suppliers and drive and deliver measurable improvements of their suppliers’ as well as their own sustainability performance. TfS introduced this globally applicable framework and tools to create transparency of the sustainability performance of chemical companies and their suppliers, and to collaborate to continuously improve performance.
Hans Joachim Müller, CEO of Azelis, commented: “Our dedication to CSR [Corporate Social Responsibility] and sustainable business models has been at the core of our business decisions for a while now. That dedication has been recognised twice by EcoVadis’ Gold rating so joining TfS was a next logical step. The TfS concept benefits both TfS member companies and suppliers, taking away bureaucratic burden from us so that time and energy can be spent on the improvement of sustainability performance.”
TfS works with three of its own KPIs that takes TfS to a new sustainability level and increases its impact. Each individual TfS member company defines its own targets based on the company sustainability strategy, which is shared within TfS. The TfS KPIs are the aggregate of the individual numbers of the TfS member companies and form the basis for TfS to increase sustainability impact in the chemical supply chain.
Bertrand Conquéret, president for TfS, concluded: “By joining TfS, Azelis will benefit from the TfS innovative framework, collaborative mindset and robust tools to assess and improve the sustainability performance of its supplying companies, while increasing its own responsible sourcing programme. Azelis, together with the other 24 TfS member companies, will contribute to shaping the future of the chemical industry.”
