Unlocking the sustainable potential of minerals
Key achievements in our sustainability journey
Discover our main priorities for 2025
Launched in 2018, SustainAgility articulates Imerys’ comprehensive approach to doing business in a way that creates positive value for all our stakeholders. It was updated in January 2023 to better reflect their evolving expectations.
Creating sustainable value for our customers
More and more, our customers want the products they buy to be sustainable. We help them by continuously improving our practices to make our products and solutions as sustainable as possible across the value chain. We also provide comprehensive sustainability information about our products so customers can make educated choices when they buy from us.
Lowering our greenhouse gas emissions
Our climate change strategy is aligned with the 1.5°C trajectory. We are taking specific steps to significantly reduce our CO2 emissions by 2030 as well as those along our value chain.
Reducing our environmental footprint
Our activity naturally has an impact on the living world, giving us a major responsibility to treat the environment with care. We are committed to acting as responsible environmental stewards, reducing our consumption of natural resources while respecting the ecosystems in which we operate and working together with scientific experts to preserve and restore biodiversity.
Making sure that every person matters
We have always made people our primary value, prioritizing health and safety, safeguarding human rights and labor practices, nurturing talent, promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, and engaging with local communities.
Ensuring high standards all along the value chain
At Imerys, we follow the most demanding international codes of corporate conduct. We place the values of communication, trust and transparency at the heart of our company culture and relationships.
Recognition of our efforts by rating agencies
We pride ourselves on being best in class in sustainability for the mining sector and our efforts have been recognized by leading sustainability rating agencies.
Sustainability related documents
Imerys minerals are found in over thirty industrial sectors, serving as essential ingredients in a broad range of applications—from cosmetics and construction to energy transition initiatives. In these fields, regulations and client expectations are increasingly stringent regarding environmental protection and health standards. Our goal is to help our clients get the most out of our solutions by enhancing their positive contributions to society and responsibly managing any potential negative effects throughout their entire life cycle.
China’s electric vehicle (EV) market continues to experience exponential growth, with over half the population projected to drive fully electric or hybrid vehicles by 2025. Inaugurated in October 2023, Imerys’ talc processing plant in Wuhu China is now successfully fueling the Chinese automotive market with the essential mineral solutions it needs to drive its transition towards more sustainable mobility.
We have partnered with inland shipping company NPRC to use renewable fuel powered barges for the transport of our minerals from our Antwerp terminal in Belgium to our customers in Northern Europe.
Using peanut shells as a source of energy? This is one approach we are implementing through our decarbonization lever: Fuel switching and Biomass use. We have launched a comprehensive program to identify, assess and implement projects to switch from fossil fuels, such as coal and heavy fuel oil, to natural gas (a fossil energy source that releases lower GHG emissions) and to biomass waste.
We’ll take you on a journey to America, Europe, the Middle East and China to discover some of our initiatives!