Sustainability at Sharon Laboratories

Sharon Laboratories’ began as a local producer of food ingredients— perhaps this is the origin for our deep commitment to the environment and its’ sustainability. As a privately held, family-owned business, we have been able to ensure that this continues and strengthens, applying even higher standards to ourselves than what is required.

By taking the lead and pre-empting environmental demands set by governments or regulatory agencies and surpassing compliance, our customers can rest assured that the products and services they receive from Sharon Laboratories are socially accountable and environmentally efficient. By practicing upstream environmental responsibility, we provide our customers the opportunity to fulfil their own commitment to the environment.

As our own initiative, in 2004 Sharon Laboratories prepared our first environmental report using Global Reporting Initiative guidelines. This report outlines the measures taken over a 4-year period to improve the environmental impact we make, in addition to setting goals on further improvement. We are very proud to say that we have met and in some case surpassed, each of the goals set forth in this document. Not resting on our laurels, we are now working on new ways to make our footprint even smaller.

1. To actively encouraging long-term thinking and environmental awareness that recognizes and enables integration of current and future trends and needs with regard to the environment

2. To protecting our ecosystems—communities and working environments—beyond compliance demanded by law

3. To continuing the search for the business opportunities that integrate sustainability in the products we supply

4. To ensuring that our products meet the criteria of extended product responsibility

5. To help our clients meet the challenges of environmental responsibility by actively promoting upstream supply chain responsibility