SGD Pharma aims to reduce its CO 2 emissions by 5% per tons of goods produced. This equates to a saving of over 10,000 tons of CO 2 by 2025. We are planning to achieve this via:

Participation in FEVE Furnace of the Future Initiative:
We are one of 20 companies from the glass industry who have joined forces to create, fund and test a pilot furnace project. This will be the world’s first large-scale hybrid oxy-fuel furnace to run on 80% renewable electricity. This will replace current fossil-fuel energy sources and reduce CO 2 emissions by 50%.

- Investment in Environmental Performance:
To demonstrate our energy commitment, we had 3 plants ISO 14001 certified (environmental management) in 2019 (Kipfenberg, Zhanjiang and Vemula) and we plan to certify the remaining plants (Sucy-en-Brie et Saint-Quentin) by the end of 2021.

- Investment in Water consumption:
To reduce our water consumption, we installed closed-loop circuits at all our production sites.
In 2019, we reduced our overall water consumption by 18% in comparison to 2018. As a result, we saved more than 156 000 m3 of water which has mainly been achieved by the outstanding performance of our French plant at Sucy-en-Brie.

- Investment in glass re-use:
Close the Glass Loop is a European bottom-up, collaborative, public-private partnership that aims to increase the quantity and quality of available recycled glass. This initiative follows the European Green Deal framework, which recently changed the objectives for the recycling rate to accelerate the transition toward a more circular economy.

- Two key targets have been set:

• Raise the rate of glass collection to 90% by 2030 (up from 76% in 2019)
• Improve the quality of recycled glass to allow more recycled content to be used in a new production loop, better, together.

SGD Pharma’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts have been recognized by EcoVadis, an independent evaluator which gave us a Platinum rating in 2020 – placing SGD Pharma in the top 1% of all companies evaluated. This rating demonstrates SGD Pharma’s commitment to sustainable business practice and our alignment with global action towards protecting the environment and tackling social issues. We also received a B score card from CDP, in recognition of our actions towards tackling climate change.