A distributor sits between thousands of producers and tens of thousands of users. That position is either a bottleneck or a lever: on carbon, on chemical safety, on labour conditions deep in the supply chain. We have written our commitments as dated, measurable obligations, published the baselines behind them, and put the data we hold at our customers’ disposal for their own reporting.
Sustainability in distribution is not a marketing position, it is an operating constraint. Every drum we move has a carbon cost, every supplier we onboard carries a human-rights exposure, and every formulation we recommend either raises or lowers the hazard profile of the product it goes into. We treat those three facts as the whole agenda.
Our commitments are approved at board level, reviewed quarterly by the ESG steering committee, and reported annually against published baselines. Where we are behind, we say so and name the reason. Where a target depends on our suppliers rather than our own sites, which is most of our Scope 3, we say that too.
Every commitment carries a year, a baseline and a boundary. No target without a number behind it.
Each pillar has a named owner and a standing quarterly review with the ESG steering committee.
Underlying data, audit status and footprint calculations are shared with customers on request.
Every pillar below opens a detailed page: position, focus areas, targets and progress, what we ask of partners, and the documents you can request for your own audit or disclosure.
The physical footprint of moving and making chemistry, and the hazard profile of what we sell.
The people in our sites, in our supply chain and in the communities around both.
How decisions are made, who is accountable, and what happens when something goes wrong.
Most of a chemical user’s footprint sits upstream of their own gate. That is exactly where a distributor operates, which makes us one of the few levers you can pull without changing your plant.
Mixed loads from one warehouse instead of six part-loads from six producers. Fewer kilometres per tonne delivered.
Bulk received, repacked into the format your line actually uses, with returnable IBC and drum programmes.
Our labs substitute restricted or high-hazard inputs and prove performance before you commit a batch.
Product carbon footprints, supplier audit status and material provenance in the format your disclosure needs.
Off-spec material, expiring stock and cleaning residues routed to recovery rather than disposal.
Our own sites and fleet are a rounding error next to the chemistry we buy and the freight it travels on. So we run two programmes: a hard reduction plan on Scope 1 and 2, where we control the decision, and a supplier and logistics engagement programme on Scope 3, where we do not.
Site-by-site contracting plus on-site generation where roof area allows.
Heat recovery on blending lines, VSD upgrades and metering down to line level.
Modal shift to rail and short-sea, load-factor targets and HVO on contracted fleet lanes.
Emissions data requested per material, with PCF requirements written into new supply agreements.
Cradle-to-gate PCFs issued for high-volume lines so customers can report accurately.
We report against recognised frameworks rather than our own scoring, and we hand the underlying data to customers who need it for their disclosures. If your auditor wants a line item we do not publish, ask. Most of it exists.
Product carbon footprints, supplier audit status, a substitution study for a substance you need out of your formulation, or the evidence pack your customer’s ESG questionnaire is asking for.