• PCC Exol SA garners Gold status in the EcoVadis sustainability ratings and joins the top two percent of the world’s most sustainable companies. Significant advance versus previous year
• PCC Rokita SA receives Silver Certificate on its very first EcoVadis audit
• Sustainability strategy set to be further expanded going forward
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Duisburg/Brzeg Dolny (Poland), April 2016. The two Polish chemicals companies PCC Rokita SA and PCC Exol SA, both headquartered in Brzeg Dolny (Lower Silesia), have achieved high standings in the renowned international sustainability ratings published by EcoVadis. In February of this year, PCC Exol SA, one of Eastern Europe’s biggest manufacturers – and Poland’s only provider – of surfactants, received the Gold Certificate, the highest rating standard for 2016, from EcoVadis for its achievements in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Taking its scores in all the CSR categories together, PCC Exol counts among the top two percent of the suppliers assessed by EcoVadis around the world. PCC Exol had already participated in a CSR audit in the previous year, achieving Silver status. PCC Rokita SA , the biggest chemicals company of the PCC Group and a major producer of polyols among other products, took part in the EcoVadis ratings for the first time and, in December 2015, was likewise awarded Silver status, an excellent result that places it among the top 30 percent of the most sustainable companies audited by EcoVadis. In their home market of Poland, both companies are leading the way in terms of developing comprehensive systems for assessing their own sustainability in production and consumption and gauging their performance on the corporate social responsibility side.
“The award of the Gold Certificate by EcoVadis represents a huge success for us,” says Mirosław Siwirski, Chairman and CEO of PCC Exol. “It inspires us to continue pursuing and extending our sustainability strategy. Through this we are able to increase the satisfaction of both our own employees and our customers – and we are strengthening our close relationships with our investors and the entire community in which we operate, particularly the neighbourhoods around our sites.” Rafał Zdon, Vice Chairman of PCC Exol and CFO of PCC Rokita, adds: “This assessment by the experts of EcoVadis provides our companies with an external endorsement affirming our transparency and our ongoing commitment to increasing sustainable performance in the chemicals industry.”
Wiesław Klimkowski, Chairman and CEO of PCC Rokita SA comments: “For us, Silver status in the sustainability ranking of EcoVadis takes on a particular significance. We have received this award on our first audit, underlining our commitment to satisfying high CSR standards. We at PCC Rokita are well aware that the success of our company is measured not only in terms of increasing profitability but also in the respect we show for human rights, in the care and attention with which we protect the environment, and in the ethical foundation underlying our entrepreneurial activity. So I am delighted.”
EcoVadis is a leading independent and international sustainability ratings service-provider. Based on a robust and globally recognized methodology, its extensive rankings serve to promote sustainability and corporate social responsibility in the activities of companies with international supply chains.
Since its first participation in an EcoVadis audit, PCC Exol has been able to significantly increase its rating scores in a number of key categories, including Working Conditions, Fair Business Practices and Sustainable Supply Chains. In addition, PCC Exol is also a participant in the Global Compact initiative of the United Nations, is a certified member of the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), and in 2014 became the very first Polish company to implement the Good Manufacturing Practice system in compliance with the guidelines issued by the European Federation for Cosmetic Ingredients.
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For more information on the products of PCC Rokita SA and PCC Exol SA, please go to our portal www.products.pcc.eu.