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Ingredients for Pet Nutrition Product Handbook and Catalog for 2018 HEALTH • NUTRITION • MATERIALS Table of Contents DSM I Bright Science. Brighter Living.™ ......................................2 DSM Nutritional Products ...........................................................4 Innovation Starts with an Idea ...................................................6 History of DSM ...........................................................................8 Nutritional Ingredient Production ............................................. 10 Premixes and Blending ............................................................. 12 Nutritional Ingredients .............................................................. 14 Knowing Pet Product Technologies .......................................... 16 Knowing Nutrient Form Technologies ....................................... 18 Pet Nutritional Solutions ..........................................................20 Table of Products ......................................................................23 DSM – Bright Science. Brighter Living.TM Key Sustainability Focus Areas: • Nutrition • Climate Change and Renewable Energy Securing Sustainable • Circular and Bio-Based Economy Operations Operation Aspirations Long-Term Goals Our Company Our Core Value • Leading in reporting Gold Class DJSI benchmarks Royal DSM N.V. is a global science-based Our mission is supported by our core value: 40 - 45 % company active in health, nutrition and materials. Sustainability. Everything we do should contribute • GHG efficiency improvements (2008 - 2025) By connecting its unique competencies in Life to a more sustainable world. To us, achieving Sustainability as > 10 % Sciences and Materials Sciences DSM is driving sustainability means simultaneously pursuing • Energy efficiency Business Growth Driver improvements (2016 - 2025) economic prosperity, environmental progress and economic performance, environmental quality and social advances to create sustainable value for social responsibility. In other words, we strive to Brighter Living Solutions: Eco+ and People+ • Purchased electricity 50 % by 2025 from renewables all stakeholders simultaneously. DSM delivers create value on the three dimensions of People, • Profitable Solutions Better for People innovative solutions that nourish, protect and improve Planet and Profit simultaneously. • Employee engagement 75 % by 2020 and Planet favorable score performance in global markets such as food and • Aspiration: 65 % of DSM Products by 2020 dietary supplements, personal care, feed, Sustainability as a DSM Strategy • Safety: Frequency .25 by 2020 recordable index pharmaceuticals, medical devices, automotive, DSM is aiming to improve peoples’ lives and paints, electrical and electronics, life protection, environmental impact, through the way we take alternative energy and bio-based materials. care of our people and own operations, and how Our Brighter Living Solutions are measurably better scarce resources by creating renewables. In order to DSM’s 20,750 employees deliver annual sales we translate this into products and innovations. for the planet (Eco+) and people (People+). This reduce the demand from our economy on nature’s of €7.7 billion. The company is listed on NYSE strategy is aimed at driving profitable growth through limited resources, DSM is committed to extending Euronext. More information can be found at The world has joined forces in 2015 by defining science-based, sustainable solutions addressing the the lifetime of materials and products, and leveraging www.dsm.com. 17 common Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global societal issues of our time. Taking an example partnerships. adopted by the United Nations. The SDGs cover a from our animal nutrition and health business, new Who We Are 15 year time frame to 2030 and include 169 targets. ingredients from our CleanCow™ dairy industry With the large societal issues in mind, we have Who we are as a company is the result of strategic DSM contributes to all goals but particularly focusses initiative demonstrated a 30% plus reduction in identified different and distinct levers that drive our choices that we have made. These in turn are based on the following SDGs: SDG 2: No Hunger, SDG 3: methane emissions and increases milk production, product innovation. These levers, help developers on our mission and our core value; they define what Good Health, SDG 7: Renewable Energy/ SDG 13: with no negative impact on animal welfare. We also and marketers to understand how a measurably we believe in and how we go about our business. Climate Action and SDG 12: Responsible strive for 65% of our products to have a measurably better impact can be made for planet and people. Consumption and Production. better impact on planet or people than competitors, The different drivers can all be substantiated with life Our Brand Promise based on standardised sustainability metrics. cycle assessments that address the environmental and social impacts of products impacts along their Bright Science. Brighter LivingTM. This sums up DSM’s Sustainability strategy is rooted in securing life cycle. The drivers are also used to review our who we are, what we stand for and what we aim to safe and sustainable operations, and an engaged innovations under development. By doing so we want achieve. These four words are the shorthand for our workforce. Within our sites and factories we aim for to steer our full portfolio of products and innovations mission, our beliefs and our behaviors – a promise More about DSM’s contribution to the Sustainable substantial greenhouse gas (GHG) emmisions and towards the best positive impact on society. that we make to the world in which we operate. Development goals: https://www.dsm.com/corporate/ energy improvement, and we aim to reach more Bright Science refers to the unique way in which sustainability/managing-sustainability/the-global- renewable electricity and high employee safety With our Brighter Living Solutions, Eco+ and People+ we combine Life Sciences and Materials Sciences goals.html and engagement. This is exemplified in our Dalry we provide products and innovations that are disciplines, technologies and talents. We partner with Scotland vitamin C production facility where the measurably better for people and planet. customers and other stakeholders – then we share Society is faced with challenges, and business has cradle to gate footprint of our product is lower than ideas, insights and inspiration to create innovative an increasingly important responsibility to contribute competing products. The smaller environmental foot- and sustainable solutions that address the key by addressing these societal challenges. print is possible because of superior emission control challenges facing society today. Brighter Living refers By anticipating the global trends and societal issues and waste water management, and an efficient heat to our commitment to creating products and solutions with its portfolio of products and services, DSM wants and power station that exports electricity to the grid that make a positive difference to people’s lives. We to create positive societal impact and further develop and receives credits for avoided electricity from other are constantly seeking new ways to improve quality a sustainable business. sources. DSM is building on strong foundations to of life, and we seek to make a positive contribution to Our key sustainable focus areas: ‘Nutrition’, ‘Climate secure our position as a sustainable company. the lives of people today and generations to come. change & renewable energy’ and ‘Circular and Our Mission bio-based economy’ create the right market context Apart from its focus on action to mitigate climate in which DSM’s solutions can flourish. Sustainability change, DSM recognizes resource scarcity as an Our purpose is to create brighter lives for people then becomes a business growth driver and defines important societal issue. To secure future availability today and generations to come. We connect our operational aspirations. of natural resources, we need to apply principles of unique competences in Life Science and Materials careful resource management and unlock more value Sciences to create solutions that nourish, protect With Sustainability as a Business Growth Driver at from the limited resources that are available. DSM and improve performance. DSM, we offer our customers sustainable and has the opportunity to mitigate resource scarcity with scalable solutions, integrating sustainability benefits solutions that prevent of food waste, including food in our value propositions and customer engagement. preservation, increasing the durability of materials, 2 enabling re-use of materials and reducing the use of 3 The DSM quality and safety program is designed food safety mindset is integrated into our ideation DSM Nutritional Products around food safety standards and managed by and innovation workstreams. a worldwide team of qualified quality and safety managers passionate about food safety. These The process of manufacturing bioactive micro experts are responsible for administrating our quality nutrients and microorganisms, and blends of and safety program, which includes as the central these micro ingredients, is complex from a quality element the Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points assurance perspective. We sell these micro Representing the Life Sciences competency DSM Nutritional Products, Animal (HACCP), which follows World Health Organization ingredients to
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