Healthy Business
Integrating a Sustainability Mindset into Business Practices
Sustainability governance drives our decision-making so that we may improve the lives of our customers, employees, partners and in the communities where we operate. Through our approach and business practices, we empower our stakeholders to become more sustainable while enabling Kemin to innovate products and services that drive transformation far into the future.
Of course, we can’t do it alone. We see our customers as our partners in creating a vision for future generations, and we work to help them reduce their environmental impact in human and animal health and nutrition, pet food, aquaculture, nutraceutical, food technologies, crop technologies, textile, biofuel and animal vaccine industries. These products and services help drive the transformation of business today into the stewardship of sustainability, meeting both altruistic and financial goals.
Healthy Business in Action
Sustainability Governance
We developed – and abide by – a sustainability governance model that ensures sustainability is integrated into every facet of the business, which results in sustainable actions, programs, products and services.
We adhere to Kemin’s Global Environmental Policy Statement.
We have created a corporate sustainability role at Kemin, created solely to implement, champion, monitor and measure the company’s sustainability efforts across the globe.
Sustainable Agriculture Practices
We use environmentally friendly growing methods to produce plant-based, sustainable products for our customers.
We develop machinery, biopesticides, herbicides and growing practices that ensure efficient and sustainable growing systems.
We partner with expert growers and family farmers around the world to maintain consistent, sustainable and efficacious methods and products.
We preserve soil health with our line of biopesticides and soil amendments that are food-grade, biodegradable, safe for bees and safe for workers to reduce environmental impact.
We contribute expertise and resources to developing sustainable aquaculture initiatives.
We use a sustainable, agronomic growing approach for our specialty crops that is certified Sustainably Grown® by SCS Global Services.
Sustainable Product Development
Supply Chain Alignment
Kemin participates in relevant sustainability organizations to demonstrate engagement and commitment to sustainability goals. These include:
Supply chain reporting through CDP (formally the Carbon Disclosure Project), EcoVadis and SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit), so employees and customers know we are a responsible member of the global supply chain.