Sustainability strategy

Values are embedded in the culture of any organisation, and they develop over time. Our values have been an essential element in building and growing our company, and defining where we come from, what we are and how we want to behave. They are also vital to how we position ourselves in the future. By acting in accordance with our values, we earn the trust of our customers, colleagues, shareholders, suppliers, and of the communities where we live and work. Commitment to our values exists throughout the whole Group.

Also embedded in our values is the fundamental expectation of compliance, ethical behaviour, integrity, and credibility. Compliant business conduct is covered by our Code of Business Conduct published on our intranet. For more information on our Code of Business Conduct see chapter 3.1 in our report. Ethical behaviour means for us that we treat everyone with dignity and respect and expect our employees and business partners to do the same with others. We consider it as a key priority to respect human rights across our value chain and seek for a positive impact on humanity. Our commitment to human rights is described in our Corporate Social Responsibility Policy.

We prohibit any form of modern slavery, including forced labour and child labour, and human trafficking within our organisation and supply chains as explained in the Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement of Jungbunzlauer Group for 2023, available on our website.

Furthermore, we have a zero-tolerance for land grabbing and are dedicated to conducting our business in a manner that respects the rights and well-being of local communities.

• Our sustainability strategy defines how we will operate in the future. As a company operating worldwide, we are committed to taking on a high level of responsibility and working in a sustainable manner
• At Jungbunzlauer, we approach sustainability from an environmental, social and governance perspective
• Our Vision 2030, which was implemented group-wide in 2021, puts a stronger emphasis on supply security, digitalisation and sustainability
• Jungbunzlauer aims to be carbon neutral by 2050

At Jungbunzlauer, we use mainly renewable raw materials to produce our biodegradable products. Glucose syrup from corn is our main raw material for the fermentation of our organic acids, xanthan gum, gellan gum and erythritol. Jungbunzlauer's mineral salts of citric, lactic acidand gluconic acid and our CITROFOL^® products, a range of citrate esters, are manufactured through neutralisation and esterification, respectively.

We manufacture almost all the glucose syrup we use in dedicated plants at our production sites in Austria, France, and Canada. At our production site in Ladenburg, Germany no fermentation is conducted. Corn is sourced domestically and from neighbouring EU countries for our European production sites, and in Ontario, Quebec and the American Midwest for our Canadian production site. Formal agreements are in place and, in most cases, we have long-term relationships with our suppliers. 

In our production sites, we take advantage of all side streams of the production process, limiting tremendously waste generation and making our business model highly resource efficient. Nearly all by-products are sold for use in feed, construction, agriculture, and biogas production.

A worldwide network of sales companies and distributors with a thorough understanding of markets and client requirements underlies Jungbunzlauer’s high level of market and customer focus. At the same time, as a family-owned company, we are committed to tradition and our core values which guide us throughout our daily business and in the strategies we adopt.
This also means that we take due diligence as a company seriously, including identification of the material topics which have a major impact on the value chain. More information on our material topics can be found in chapter 2.5 in our report.