By harnessing our creative passion and deep scientific expertise, we are strengthening our business, making a positive impact and inspiring our colleagues and customers to change the world for the better.
Our Sustainability strategy – the Do More Good Plan – is a fundamental component of our success as a company. It is a pledge to our customers, stakeholders and to each other that we’re always striving to exceed expectations and fulfill our purpose to do more good for people and planet.
Our strategy also directly supports and enhances IFF’s four operational pillars: Customer Focus, Innovation Powerhouse, Operational Excellence and People. Keep exploring below to learn more.
Being an “Innovation Powerhouse” is one of IFF’s key operational pillars, through which we are bringing sustainable new products and applications to market that our customers value.
Together, we are leveraging sustainability to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations while helping our customers to achieve their own goals.
Together, we are re-imagining new solutions to food waste, which traditionally gets sent to landfills, where it decomposes and emits methane, one of the biggest contributors to climate change.
Through our RE-IMAGINE WASTE™ Innovation Program, we offer three solutions:
Designed Enzymatic Biomaterials™ (DEB) technology uses sugar, water and enzymes to create biobased polysaccharides with a quality typically only found in petrochemical polymers.
Through DEB, we are revolutionizing the sustainability of diverse materials:
IFF strives to reduce the environmental impact of our fragrance ingredients across our portfolio. For example, LMR Naturals by IFF is focused on fostering a positive footprint, including:
To support our commitment to Operational Excellence, we strive for continuous improvement in reducing our environmental footprint and sourcing ingredients responsibly. Learn more about our three areas of focus.
Our efforts to advance climate action begin with minimizing our own environmental footprint, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and progressing toward net-zero carbon targets.
Together, we are taking science-based actions that drive greater efficiencies and collaboration.
Each step we take, through effective water stewardship and waste minimization by leveraging best practices, opens greater opportunities to strengthen our business. Together, we are Doing More Good for our customers and our planet.
Through our Responsible Sourcing program, we seek to ensure ethical practices throughout our supply chain while reducing environmental impact, supporting workers and grower communities, and strengthening our human rights due diligence processes.
We are focused on People as one of our core operational pillars – supporting engaged and empowered employees, collaborating to drive success.
We have worked hard to develop effective management approaches and accompanying metrics for our most important Sustainability topics, which has resulted in significant, broad-based improvements since we began our program ten years ago.
Qualified as a constituent of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), North America, for the fifth consecutive year
Awarded the 2024 EcoVadis Platinum sustainability rating for the fourth time (based on 2023 information), placing IFF among the top 1% of companies assessed
Named to CDP’s Supplier Engagement Leaderboard for the fourth consecutive year for taking action to reduce climate risk, based on 2023 CDP disclosures
Named the top American company and 10th globally by Equileap, a leader in providing data and insights on gender equality in the corporate sector
Maintained certification as EDGE Move level in 27 countries in recognition of our commitment to gender equality
Included for the second consecutive time in the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (based on 2022 data), for transparency in gender-related data reporting
Named among the 2023 Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion by Disability:IN for the fourth consecutive year after scoring 100% on the Disability Equality Index
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Learn more about how we are taking bold climate action to protect our planet for future generations in our Do More Good Report.