Paris-based Distributor now Member of the World’s largest Corporate Sustainability Initiative

Specialty Chemicals distributor Safic-Alcan S.A. (Puteaux (Paris), France) has announced that it has joined the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate citizenship and sustainability initiative. In doing so, the distributor committing to align its strategy and operations worldwide with the ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment protection and anti-corruption.

in the announcement Safic-Alcan said that ” … sustainability is not just a question of respecting regulations, it has been part of our identity, our corporate strategy and our culture for many years. It is and will remain an opportunity to use our creativity and innovation to be part of the solution, for our world today and for future generations. By joining the UN Global Compact, we are taking an important step to publicly commit to our values.”

Source: Safic Alcan press release

DistriConsult comment: Several distributors have joined the UN Global Compact before. The list includes Azelis (LU), Biesterfeld AG (DE), Brenntag AG(DE), Cornelius Group PLC (UK), Lehmann&Voss& Co. (DE), Ricardo Molina SAU (ES) and  Worlée-Chemie GmbH (DE). For a searchable list of participants see the following link: https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/participants

HGE / DCG – 22.02.2018