Gattefossé has revealed that in October 2021, following two years of effort, it obtained ISO 14001:2015 certification for its main production site in Saint-Priest, France. Shortly afterwards, the site also received a Platinum award from EcoVadis.
“The implementation of this environmental management system, now certified, aims to continuously improve the company’s performance through a more sustainable use of resources and the reduction of waste. Gattefossé is committed to a continuous improvement process in order to maintain this certification for the next few years,” the company stated.
The Platinum award, giving the company a score of 74 out of 100, four up from 2020, places it among the top 1% of companies evaluated by EcoVadis, on the themes of Environment, Social & Human Rights, Ethics and Responsible Purchasing.
Gattefossé attributed this to concrete actions it has implemented on improving the traceability, sustainability and performance of raw materials, reducing direct and indirect carbon emissions and working on the eco-design of ingredients by reducing the impact of their end-of-life. It also uses EcoVadis to assess the CSR performance of all its suppliers.
“Today, these two recognitions allow us to illustrate our ambitions. ISO 14001 is a great structuring tool that will help us to achieve our strategic objectives, by taking environmental issues into account even more strongly in the management of the company,” said Laurent Schubnel Gattefossé’s CSR group leader.
