SUSTAINABILITY AT PREMIX

All our actions are in line with our company purpose: Premix creates a safe society with functional materials.

People, Solutions, and Operations

To make our sustainability work more visible and concrete, we have divided it into three main themes: People, Solutions, and Operations:

People - the Premix team - are our greatest asset, and we want to ensure their safety, health, and well-being in any way we can. And not just the Premix people but our customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
Our material solutions, on the other hand, improve safety in countless ways in many industries. Through them, we affect the safety of society in general.
Operations - how we work throughout the supply chain - are our way of ensuring a minimal effect on the environment. We are constantly enhancing our production processes and material effectiveness, for example, through reuse and recycling.

People

We believe in good chemistry - not just in our products, but in people too! We are fully committed to enabling a good working life, making sure that our personnel has the possibility to feel good about the work they do. It covers many perspectives, from safety to well-being and from equality to rewarding and competence development. It is not a project or something that is carried out once a year, but an ongoing process that is done in interaction with all our people.

Health, Safety & Wellbeing
To put it short, we are devoted to ensuring these principles:

Physical, mental, and social wellbeing, including remote working and flexible working hours
Protective safety and guidance
Competence development and qualified leadership work
Employee surveys

Read more about what it's like working at Premix or how do our values show in our work!

Equality and non-discrimination

For us, equality is of top priority, and we have zero tolerance for discrimination. According to our employee surveys, we are doing very well here. To keep it this way, we make sure that we have clear and common policies, rules, and processes regarding equality, and they are being followed. In addition, Premix people have agreed to work and act according to the Premix Code of Conduct. We want to be trustworthy and act responsibly and ethically towards our customers, partners, employees, directors, and all other counterparts in Business. We expect the same high level of integrity and responsibility also from our suppliers, distributors, and other business associates.

Solutions

Creating a safe society with functional materials - that’s our company's purpose. Through our electrically conductive plastics, we offer, for example: 1) Solutions for healthcare and wellbeing, 2) Safety in explosive atmospheres & protection from electrostatic discharge, 3) Safe driving, and 4) Solutions for reducing food loss & excessive use of antibiotics.

Our electrically conductive plastics are key materials in in-vitro diagnostics, ensuring precise measurement. They ensure safety in Ex environments and protect sensitive components from breakages caused by uncontrolled electrostatic discharge.

Recently, we launched a new antimicrobial technology called PREXELENT^™. We believe that this new technology offers countless ways to maintain purity and prevent spoilage caused by, for example, mold, salmonella, listeria, MRSA, and other unwanted microbes. Please visit www.prexelent.com for more information!

Operations

Our plant in Rajamäki is working on a closed cycle basis and produces zero emissions to water or air. We already have efficient recycling and reuse of waste, but we can always do better - this is something we are constantly working with. Recently, we've put several new and more energy-efficient machinery into use and thus, improved our sustainability. We are committed to an energy efficiency agreement and its objectives.

Although much has been already made and actions taken, we are constantly aiming higher and committed to these targets:

Minimizing our waste
Reducing the amount of incinerable energy compared to recycled waste
Minimizing our energy consumption/kg (MWh) by 7,5 % by 2025
Minimizing our carbon footprint, for example by constantly finding alternatives for fossil raw materials
Supporting and finding new, sustainable ways of traveling

People, Solution, and Operations

Ecovadis Silver Medal 2022

EcoVadis, the leading rating agency for sustainability management, has awarded Premix a Silver Medal for sustainability performance. Compared to last year, we improved or sustained our scoring in all evaluation areas, scoring better than 86% of the companies in our business area.

The assessment considers a range of corporate responsibility issues grouped into four themes: Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. The issues covered in each assessment are based on the relevance of the 21 issues to the company context, such as industry, size, and location.

Sustainability is an essential business driver for us at Premix. Measuring our performance gives us tools to create new future-proof business opportunities and take care of our impact on society and the nature around us. Next, we are aiming for the Gold Medal, which is awarded only to 5% of the most sustainable companies.

Environment, Labour & Human Rights, Ethics, Sustainable Producurement

Ecovadis sustainability model

Responsible Care^®program & Carbon neutral chemistry 2045

We are committed to the chemical industry's global Responsible Care^® sustainability program. In total, more than 60 countries around the world are participating in this. In Finland, 98 companies have committed to the program, representing some 80 % of all chemical industry production.

The chemical industry in Finland has set an ambitious goal, striving for the sector's carbon neutrality by 2045. Premix is engaged with these targets and is happy to join forces with the entire industry to reach them!

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