SGD PHARMA SGD PHARMA A OBTENU LA MÉDAILLE D’OR les compare à leurs pairs. SGD Pharma se situe parmi les D’ECOVADIS EN 2023 5 % des fabricants de verre et d’emballages en verre les plus performants grâce à de très bons scores dans tous les domaines évalués. Ils le sont plus particulièrement en matière d'approvisionnement durable, de travail et de droits de l'homme, qui s’affichent respectivement dans le top 1 % et 2 % des entreprises du secteur. SGD PHARMA AWARDED ECOVADIS GOLD RATING IN 2023 One of the world's most reliable providers of corporate sustainability assessments, EcoVadis evaluates companies in four key areas - environment, labor and human rights, sustainable sourcing and Photo credit: © Anne Soullez ethics - and compares them to their peers. SGD Pharma is among the top 5% of glass and glass Fournisseur parmi les plus fiables au niveau mondial packaging manufacturers, with high scores in all en matière d'évaluation du développement durable des areas assessed. This is particularly true of sustainable entreprises, EcoVadis évalue les entreprises dans quatre sourcing, labor and human rights, which rank in domaines clés – l'environnement, le travail et les droits the top 1% and 2% of companies in the sector de l'homme, l'approvisionnement durable et l'éthique – et respectively. “Nous nous sommes fixés des objectifs ambitieux pour l’ensemble de nos usines en France, en Allemagne, en Inde et en Chine, afin de réduire les émissions de CO de nos scopes 1 et 2 de 35 % d'ici 2030 et de 65 % d'ici 2040.2 We have set ambitious targets for all our plants in France, Germany, India and China, to reduce CO emissions from our scopes 1 and 22 by 35% by 2030 and 65% by 2040 Olivier Rousseau, CEO de SGD PHARMA these efforts will enable us to achieve maintenance of an energy management using as much "green" electricity from leadership in the pharmaceutical-grade system. Our Vemula plant in India has renewable energy sources as possible. glass industry. been completely covered with solar pa- For amber glass production, our furnaces nels. But the main thrust of this decarbo- currently use a mixed energy mix of 80% What are the means being nization plan concerns a change of tech- gas and 20% electricity. The aim is to used to achieve these objec- nology for our furnaces when they are reverse this mix, with 80% electricity rebuilt. For all our clear glass production, and 20% gas, which should enable us tives? we are going to deploy the technology to reduce our gas consumption by 50%. implemented at Saint-Quentin-Lamotte More generally, this decarbonization plan in France, since 2015, on one of the two is also accompanied by a reduction in all O.R.: Our investments to achieve furnaces that runs entirely on electricity. our energy consumption and will help to these results are already underway and Today, it is already the lowest-carbon cut the company's total carbon emissions will continue. Four of our plants have glass plant in the world. Every time we by two-thirds by 2040. This represents a already received ISO 50001 certifica- rebuild our clear glass furnaces, we will very significant cost, since the amounts tion for the design, implementation and make the transition to all-electricity, we are going to invest to make this 10 The Pharmaceutical Post 17 / Janvier - 2024 “