Creating a Sustainable Future Through Innovative Chemistry Sustainability Report 2020 ABOUT INFINEUM HIGHLIGHTS About This CEO MESSAGE
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Creating a sustainable future through innovative chemistry Sustainability Report 2020 ABOUT INFINEUM HIGHLIGHTS About this CEO MESSAGE CREATING A Report SUSTAINABLE FUTURE THROUGH INNOVATIVE CHEMISTRY Welcome to the Infineum Group’s¹ first sustainability report. Content and scope of this report PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT As part of our corporate strategy, we are committed to This report covers all of Infineum’s owned and operated delivering a sustainable future through innovative chemistry locations, including our Manufacturing Plants and Business OUR PEOPLE and in doing so, we aim for the utmost transparency of our and Technology Centres. Data in the report covers the year environmental, social and governance performance. 2020, but as this is Infineum’s first sustainability report we OUR In the preparation of this report, we reviewed the also cover activity commenced during 2019. COMMUNITIES requirements of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and To find out more about our business and our sustainability the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), work, please visit Infineum.com/sustainability. THE WAY WE DO and have started a process to align our work and progress BUSINESS If you have any questions or comments about this report, towards these frameworks. We have taken inspiration from please contact us at Infineum Sustainability. Thank you for the Global Reporting Initiative with regards to our data KEY FIGURES your interest in Infineum. and disclosures and will work towards more comprehensive compliance with the GRI standard in the future. 1The Infineum Group is comprised of various affiliated companies located around the world. The term “Infineum” in this report refers individually and collectively to these affiliated companies. ABOUT INFINEUM HIGHLIGHTS About us CEO MESSAGE Infineum is a specialty chemicals company whose purpose is customer relationships and continually work to develop the to create a sustainable future through innovative chemistry. appropriate capabilities and resources to meet their unmet CREATING A A joint venture between affiliates of Royal Dutch Shell needs with a differentiated value proposition aimed at SUSTAINABLE and Exxon Mobil Corporation, we are one of the world helping them grow. FUTURE THROUGH leaders in the formulation, manufacturing and marketing of INNOVATIVE petroleum additives for lubricants and fuels with operations CHEMISTRY and production facilities worldwide. We employ a highly skilled and engaged workforce of around 2000 people across multicultural teams and PROTECTING THE conduct business in over 20 languages. With headquarters ENVIRONMENT Delivering through powerful research and development in the UK, we host worldwide production facilities, have capabilities around innovative chemistry, Infineum sales representation in more than 70 countries and have OUR PEOPLE technology supports areas such as shear modification, cold strategically located Business and Technology Centres in flow and wax crystal modification, optimising formulations, China, Singapore, the UK, the USA and Japan. OUR anti-wear and detergency, modification of flow properties, COMMUNITIES stabilising carbonaceous and metal particles (carbon black) and combining chemically incompatible materials We operate six Manufacturing Plants in New Jersey (USA), THE WAY WE DO effectively, to name just a few. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Cologne (Germany), Vado Ligure BUSINESS (Italy), Singapore and Zhangjiagang (China) and have two further sites in France (Notre-Dame de Gravenchon and KEY FIGURES Infineum maintains its relentless focus on technology Berre) which are operated via our respective site partners excellence, reliability, operational excellence and ExxonMobil and LyondellBasell. We also work closely collaboration to deliver customers performance they can with more than twenty off-site processors and custom rely on. We pride ourselves on our strong and collaborative manufacturers who produce Infineum products. ABOUT INFINEUM WE SET A NEW OUR CARES HIGHLIGHTS STRATEGY AND VALUES AND RESPONSIBLE CEO MESSAGE GLOBAL GOALS BEHAVIOURS CARE GLOBAL AND TARGETS INITIATIVE CREATING A CHARTER gained momentum, and we broadened FOR 2025, AND our connections with local communities: SUSTAINABLE All Manufacturing Plants and Business and • Appointing 25 Science, Technology, FUTURE THROUGH Technology Centres became signatories IDENTIFIED of the Responsible Care Global Charter, Engineering, Maths (STEM) ambassadors WE INNOVATIVE and we achieved exemplary process FOUR UN SDGS • Working with 23 Universities and 4 CHEMISTRY safety results, recording only two “Tier 1” Government laboratories OPENED OUR events and four “Tier 2” events in 2020. as key priorities. To keep us on track, we built a sustainability scorecard and Developing our Global Volunteering dashboard to measure our performance, Standard, walking 33 million steps and GLOBAL PROTECTING THE and began working on this, our first raising $690,000 for global charities during the Covid-19 pandemic. 2019·2020 CENTRE OF ENVIRONMENT sustainability report. INNOVATION at our UK headquarters, a multi- OUR PEOPLE million pound state-of-the- art sustainable building with 50 new jobs for chemists OUR WE REDUCED and engineers, to research COMMUNITIES OUR TOTAL better and more sustainable OUR SCOPE solutions in the automotive, RECORDABLE ENVIRONMENTAL transmissions and fuels 1 AND 2 additive business. THE WAY WE DO INJURY RATE CERTIFICATE BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS GREENHOUSE (TRIR) IN 2020 ACCREDITATION All Infineum owned Manufacturing Plants GAS (GHG) KEY FIGURES WAS 0.05 achieved ISO 14001. for colleagues and 0.12 for contractors, the EMISSIONS lowest among our benchmarks. and carried out cradle-to-gate Life Cycle Assessments for 100% of our products. ABOUT INFINEUM HIGHLIGHTS A message CEO MESSAGE from Trevor Russell CREATING A SUSTAINABLE At Infineum, our purpose is to create a sustainable future through innovative FUTURE THROUGH Investing in our people and communities chemistry, so I am pleased to be introducing our first sustainability report, in which INNOVATIVE we share details of how we are driving towards that purpose. The safety of our people continues to be our number one priority. CHEMISTRY The world is changing quickly. The pace of change has never been as fast as it is We invest significantly in colleague development to allow individuals to reach their today, yet will never be this slow again. We must all embrace sustainability in order potential, we focus time and attention on creating an inclusive and diverse culture, and to maintain our quality of life as human beings, to retain the diversity of life on Earth we engage our colleagues with our CARES values. PROTECTING THE and to enable the Earth’s ecosystems to thrive. Innovative chemistry has a vital role ENVIRONMENT to play in this and, in our particular industry, we must provide the products needed Colleagues in turn reach out to the communities in which we operate. Last year, not only on the journey towards the electrification of mobility while at the same time helping did they engage in a variety of volunteering activities, maintaining a strong presence in to make the internal combustion engine as clean as it can be. the community during the pandemic, they also donated $345,000 to charity, a sum that Infineum was delighted to match. Each day I am so proud and indeed humbled to work OUR PEOPLE Our fundamental technical competencies of detergency, dispersancy, surface alongside such a wonderful group of dedicated employees. chemistry, flow improvement and wax modification already contribute hugely to the environment by enabling fuels and lubricants to deliver better fuel economy, reduced OUR emissions, reduced waste through longer time between oil changes, and extended Driving efficiency and innovation COMMUNITIES component and engine life. But it doesn’t stop there; these same competencies can bring sustainability advantages to countless new markets around the world. Sustainability considerations are now central to our product developments, to our capital investments and to the design of our supply chains. We are using digital and analytics to bring efficiency and the elimination of waste to our operations. THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS Sharpening our sustainability ambitions Additionally, we are investing in environmental projects: we installed solar panels on 5 underutilised acres of our site in Linden, New Jersey; our new Global Centre of In this first sustainability report, we are setting out some of the progress we have Innovation in the UK was built to a high sustainability specification with solar panels, KEY FIGURES made so far and we are being clear about our sustainability goals and targets a roof garden, LED lighting, and water and electricity optimisation investments; for 2025. These new ambitions build on many years of activity to improve our we relocated our Singapore office to Keppel Bay Tower, which is the first high rise environmental and social performance. By setting 2025 targets, we are bringing commercial building in Singapore to use only renewable energy; and we continue to clarity to our ambitions on many fronts including HSE, product development, supply make huge energy improvements in Germany. chains and operations, colleagues and community. We are making lots of progress but we know we have a way to go. The Report is an important step on that journey. Trevor Russell ABOUT INFINEUM HIGHLIGHTS CEO MESSAGE CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CREATING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE THROUGH FUTURE THROUGH INNOVATIVE CHEMISTRY