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2020-11-03 Article

Verescence awarded EcoVadis Platinum

Verescence achieves EcoVadis Platinum rating for sustainability leadership – ranking in top 1%

Paris, November 3rd, 2020 – Verescence, the world’s leading glassmaker for the beauty industry, today announced that it has received the Platinum medal from EcoVadis, the highest level of recognition that distinguishes the top 1% of the world’s most advanced companies in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

Already a gold medalist for two consecutive years, Verescence has been awarded Platinum, a new medal category created in 2020 by EcoVadis. This is the highest recognition that distinguishes companies with an overall score greater to 73/100.

Verescence scored 79/100 in 2020, a 2-point improvement compared to last year. The glassmaker confirms its rank among the top 1% of the most committed and most advanced companies in CSR among the 60,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis worldwide, all sectors combined.

All of its production sites in France, Spain and the United States have also achieved Platinum level. This result is a first in the glass packaging industry for Perfumery & Cosmetics.

Alain Thorré, CSR Director of Verescence stated:

We are very honored to achieve the highest level of CSR performance with the new EcoVadis Platinum medal for all of our sites around the world. These results once again confirm the relevance of our Glass Made to Last approach and encourage us to continue our efforts to achieve the ambitious objectives set by the Group, in particular as part the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Advancing its commitment to a sustainable beauty industry, Verescence is constantly optimizing the environmental impact of its processes. Verescence participates in the "Furnace of the future" project, a key milestone for the industry towards climate-neutral glass packaging. Most recently, the Group joined the «VERCANE: fusion de VERre CArboNEutre» program (carbon neutral glass melting), an ambitious R&D program to support the industrial glass sector in its efforts to decarbonize glass production by evaluating energy sources for a sustainable industrial process.

To find out more about Verescence's CSR commitments, you can discover its 2019-2020 Sustainability Report.

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