UNLOCKING OUR
BETTER
FUTURES
SUSTAINABILITY AMBITION 2023
Sustainability at Imerys - 2023
Leah Wilson,
Chief Sustainability Officer
At Imerys, we are striving to unlock
the sustainable potential of minerals. We are committed to operating in a responsible manner, respecting natural ecosystems and ensuring that our solutions benefit our stakeholders and society over the long term."
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SustainAgility
Our sustainability program
SustainAgility articulates Imerys' comprehensive approach to doing business in a way that creates value for internal and external stakeholders. The SustainAgility program is articulated around three axes.
Empowering our people
Making sure employees stay healthy and safe, safeguarding human rights
and labor practices, nurturing talent, promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, and engaging with communities.
Growing with our customers
Behaving ethically, operating fairly, ensuring responsible purchasing, and advancing sustainable products and processes.
Caring for our planet
Protecting the environment, promoting natural resources efficiency, respecting biodiversity and acting on climate change.
Where we operate
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Empowering our people
Imerys has operated mining activities around the world since 1880. As a responsible company and industry leader, we have always made people our primary focus. Every day, we act to ensure safe labor practices, safeguard human rights, nurture talent, promote diversity, equity and inclusion, and engage with our local communities.
Health & Safety
Human Capital
Diversity, equity and inclusion make the difference
Health and Safety, at the core of our values
People matter. They are at the heart of Imerys' success. Across the world, Imerys strives to be an exemplary employer, creating an inclusive environment that not only promotes employee development, but that also
balance, pay equity, underrepresented nationalities, and disability.
You can find more information as well as stories about talent and community engagement on Imerys.com. -
We have developed a proactive culture that we call SaferTogether, which
helps us to progress towards an incident-free and healthy workplace. It is focused on four key areas: being positive about safety; placing health and safety above all; looking out for each other; and taking responsibility.The
Imerys Health and Safety Charter sets out the responsibility expected of managers and employees.
We also go the extra mile with our
Imerys Connect Day, an annual event with dedicated workshops on health and safety. On this day, all our employees and contractors across all our premises worldwide discuss how their individual and collective behavior can help create a better, safer and healthier place to work. -
fosters practices based on fairness, openness and mutual respect. Imerys is fully committed to accelerating efforts towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably Gender Equality, Decent Work and Economic Growth.
In 2022, Imerys defined its three-year Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) program, including a DE&I composite index. Through this program, Imerys sets ambitious targets and promises to monitor metrics in the areas of gender
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Target of senior management positions to be held by women by 2025
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Growing with our customers
We believe sustainable products and solutions start with being a responsible company.
So we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of business ethics, compliance and responsible purchasing. We grow with our customers by continuously improving the environmental impact of our solutions and the ethical standards of our processes.
Business Conduct
No compromise on ethics
SustainAgility underlines our commitment to exemplary business conduct across all our operations, and we expect our partners across
the minerals value chain to share and promote the same principles. Imerys' Code of Business Conduct and Ethics sets out the ethical business direction we and
Portfolio Management
Mineral solutions
for a sustainable future
At Imerys, we work tirelessly to provide innovative mineral solutions that help our customers tackle the various environmental and social issues the world is facing. We understand that our customers have many questions
they need answered before making their decisions, such as: where do our mineral raw materials come from, how have they been produced and processed, what impact does their production have on the environment, and what sustainable benefits do they bring to downstream value chains?
our business partners must take to sustain our industry leadership and ensure that safety, sustainability, ethics, innovation and profitability all go hand in hand.
We also require our suppliers to adhere to the same high standards. Our Business Code of Conduct and Supplier
ESG Standards are available on our website. -
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We have developed the SustainAgility Solutions Assessment framework, aligned with international standards. This comprehensive approach assesses and scores the environmental and social impacts of our products based on life cycle assessments which include their carbon footprint. Our expert teams rate our products, and the best performing products are given the label PIONEER, demonstrating their superior sustainability and low environmental impact. All new products are assessed against this framework.
We invite you to visit our website to discover our portfolio of sustainable products and the SustainAgility Solutions Assessment methodology. -
of our suppliers will be rated against sustainability criteria by 2025 (53% in 2022).
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Caring for our planet
Since 2017, Imerys has been addressing climate change as a priority for its business. The Group has committed to
significantly reducing carbon emissions within its operations and value chain through transparent objectives and specific actions aligned with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Imerys also acts to continuously minimize the impact of its activities on the environment and is committed to preserving and promoting biodiversity.
Climate Change
Accelerating decarbonization
Environmental Stewardship
Limiting the environmental impact of our activities
Our commitment to combating climate change runs deep.
We have defined our roadmap of decarbonisation and are implementing a climate transition plan across the Group; from the energy we purchase to the processes we use, from the way we manage our supply chain to the products we provide to our customers.
To further accelerate our decarbonization efforts, we recently updated our Scope
1 and 2 target to align with a more
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Target to reduce scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions (tCO2eq) from 2021 base year by 2030
ambitious 1.5°C trajectory, and set a new Scope 3 target based on the most recent SCBti criteria. These new targets were validated by the SBTi in July 2023 -
Our levers for reducing our greenhouse gas emissions:
• Energy efficiency
• Fuel switching and biomass use
• Electrification
• Low carbon electricity
• Process innovation
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Target to reduce scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (tCO2eq) from 2021 base year by 2030
It all starts with preserving the mineral resources we use by
constantly optimizing our mining and resources planning. We implement our biodiversity program to protect, restore and promote the sustainable use of ecosystems by focusing on the main causes of biodiversity loss: habitat loss and degradation, species overexploitation, climate change, pollution, and Invasive Alien Species. We have also prioritized water management across our operations to minimize our impact on water resources. To support the biodiversity program, Imerys has partnered with recognized scientific experts such as
the French National Museum of Natural History. In addition, the Group is committed to the act4nature initiative, which aims to mobilize businesses to protect biodiversity.
Visit imerys.com to discover more about how Imerys is taking action to protect the planet. -
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Global ambition, local actions
Every objective and target we set is achieved through the dedication and efforts of our teams across the
world. Here is a small sample of their recent proud moments.
Reducing our carbon footprint | Empowering South African women | Rehabilitating |
through solar energy in Malaysia | to succeed in the workplace | ecosystems in the Americas |
Imerys South Africa is empowering women in the | ||
mining industry by creating a platform to raise awareness | ||
around female empowerment in the workplace. The | ||
initiative stems from the South Africa Minerals Council's | ||
Women In Mining (WIM) program. Imerys South Africa | ||
launched its own WIM chapter called We Rise, which | ||
provides workshops and counseling services to help | ||
women achieve their full potential. - |
Imerys committed to a long-term partnership with B2B solar distributor TotalEnergies ENEOS in order to install a 1.8 megawatt-peak solar photovoltaic system at one of its Malaysian facilities. With the help of this system, 10% of the facility will be powered by renewable energy. With about 3,200 installed modules, the photovoltaic system will produce about 2,450 megawatt-hours of renewable electricity each year. This will result in significant cost savings and a reduction of Imerys' carbon footprint by about 1,600 tons of CO2 emissions, equivalent to planting around 2,400 trees. -
Since 1996, Imerys has delivered significant environmental benefits through land reclamation across the Americas. By using nutrient-rich materials, the team has rehabilitated former quarries with flourishing flora and fauna. For example, our Sandersville site in Georgia, USA, has witnessed a significant increase in vegetation and wildlife, including wild turkeys and deer. To date, 4,410 acres have been rehabilitated in Georgia for use by the local community. -
SustainAgility
Our roadmap
Results | Target | |
2022 | 2025 | |
EMPOWERING OUR PEOPLE | ||
HEALTH & SAFETY | ||
Occupational safety management | 3.0 | 3.3 |
Improve Group Safety Culture Maturity* across all business areas | ||
Occupational health management | NEW | 75% |
Increase global Occupational Health action plan improvement rate | ||
HUMAN CAPITAL | ||
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | NEW | 100% |
Increase the score of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) Index, including KPIs related to gender, nationality, | ||
disability and inclusion | ||
GROWING WITH OUR CUSTOMERS | ||
BUSINESS CONDUCT | ||
Ethics & compliance | 69 | +7% |
Improve the external sustainability rating of the Group compared to 2022 assessment | ||
Responsible purchasing | 53% | 75% |
Deploy a sustainability rating scheme of Group suppliers (by spend) | ||
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | ||
Product sustainability | 55% | 75% |
Assess the Products in Application Combinations (PAC) of Imerys' product portfolio (by revenue) according to sustainability criteria | ||
Ensure the Group New Product Developments are scored as SustainAgility Solutions ** | 75% | 75% |
CARING FOR OUR PLANET | ||
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP | ||
Environmental management | NEW | 100% |
Reduce environmental impacts by assessing the maturity level of sites against environmental management requirements*** | ||
Natural resource efficiency | NEW | 100% |
Improve water management by ensuring major sites comply with new water reporting requirements*** | ||
Improve mineral resources efficiency by ensuring priority sites (by mineral waste volume) comply with new | NEW | 80% |
mineral waste reporting requirements*** by the end of 2025 | ||
Biodiversity & land rehabilitation | NEW | 20 |
(-D to A) | (0 - 100) |
(CCC to AAA) B | 69 |
Imerys rating above | Imerys rating above |
industry average (C) | industry average (43) |
Minings & Metals | Mining |
A robust performance recognized by leading rating agencies (2022)
For more information and up to date guidance on our external Sustainability ratings, visit
Imerys.com
Reduce our impact on biodiversity by fulfilling our act4nature commitments and conducting biodiversity audits on 20 priority sites | ||
CLIMATE CHANGE | ||
Scopes 1 & 2 | NEW | -42% |
Reduce Group Scope 1 & 2 greenhouse gas emissions (tCO2eq) by 42% from 2021 base year in alignment with a 1.5°C trajectory | (2030) | |
Scope 3 | NEW | -25% |
Reduce Group Scope 3**** greenhouse gas emissions (tCO2eq) by 25% from 2021 base year | (2030) | |
- Maturity Level 3 corresponds to Proactive level on the Imerys Safety Culture Maturity Matrix, where Imerys Safety System is "fully implemented, employees are engaged and contribute actively".
- Based on the SustainAgility Solutions Assessment framework, a "SustainAgility Solution" is a product in an application that has scored within the two
highest categories of the four possible categories. *** As defined by Imerys protocols based on leading international environmental standards.
- Scope 3 emissions covered: purchased goods and services, capital goods, fuel and energy related activities, upstream and downstream transportation and distribution, waste generated in operations, business travel, employee commuting, and investments
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