The Environmental Practice sets out key principles to manage IROs such as compliance with applicable regulatory and legal requirements, a periodic and systematic establishment of improvement objectives and their monitoring and measurement through KPIs, the development of products that meet customers’ needs while ensuring respect for the environment, and the adoption of the best available technologies for the efficiency of production processes and the reduction of environmental impacts. These principles include pollution prevention.

We are aware of our potential impacts generated by the unlawful usage of substances of concern and substances of very high concern. For this reason and in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations (CE/1907/2006 – REACH regulation), we have defined strict procedures on the management of these substances. Where substitution is not possible, a derogation process must be initiated in accordance with the provisions of the procedure “CMR mixture/substances derogation”. According to this procedure, we require users to seek a non-hazardous substitute material and specific prevention and protection measures are put into place.