RADNOR,
Pa., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avantor,
Inc. (NYSE: AVTR), a leading global provider of mission-critical
products and services to customers in the life sciences, advanced
technologies, and applied materials industries, today announced the
global launch of the company's Responsible Supplier Program
designed to help reduce environmental impact and accelerate
sustainable practices across the supply chain.
Avantor's Responsible Supplier Program was piloted with a small
cohort of supplier partners in 2022 and launched more broadly this
week. The program focuses on six priorities: climate change,
deforestation, human rights, responsible packaging, waste, and
water. These priorities were selected based on their relevance to
Avantor and to suppliers' businesses, enabling collaboration with
supplier partners to identify sustainability challenges and
solutions.
"Our supplier relationships are a critical part of Avantor's
business, and working together to improve sustainability across the
supply chain is important to our long-term goals," said
Sheri Lewis, EVP of Global Supply
Chain Operations, Avantor. "We recognize that one size doesn't fit
all and are taking a deliberate approach to assessing each of our
supplier partners' capabilities and needs, and identifying ways
that we can together improve sustainability."
Avantor's Responsible Supplier Program includes three pillars:
Performance, Collaboration, and Recognition.
- Performance: Measuring suppliers' sustainability
performance by collecting data and assessing progress on
priorities. Avantor has selected the EcoVadis® and
Kodiak Hub platforms to collect and synthesize relevant supplier
sustainability data.
- Collaboration: Partnering with suppliers to
identify and progress solutions for current and future
sustainability challenges. Based on performance data, Avantor and
suppliers will together identify the best path forward to
prioritize and address opportunities to improve sustainability
across their supply chains and proactively share sustainability
solutions resulting from these efforts to accelerate sustainability
progress.
- Recognition: Rewarding suppliers for exceptional
sustainability performance and collaboration. Recognition criteria
will be established and rolled out following performance data
collection.
In May, the 2023 Avantor Sustainability Report detailed progress
in the company's principles-based approach to responsible business,
including the introduction of a new packaging system at two
distribution plants that saved more than 18,000 pounds of packaging
and 60,000 pounds of filler material in 2022. In spring 2023,
Avantor became a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact and
committed to setting near-term emissions reduction targets in line
with climate science in support of the Science Based Targets
initiative.
For more information about Avantor's Responsible Supplier
Program, visit
https://www.avantorsciences.com/pages/en/responsible-supplier-program.
About Avantor
Avantor®, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global
provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in
the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced
technologies & applied materials industries. Our portfolio is
used in virtually every stage of the most important research,
development and production activities in the industries we serve.
Our global footprint enables us to serve more than 300,000 customer
locations and gives us extensive access to research laboratories
and scientists in more than 180 countries. We set science in motion
to create a better world. For more information, visit
avantorsciences.com and find us on LinkedIn, Twitter and
Facebook.
Avantor Global Media Contact
Emily Collins
Vice President, External Communications
332-239-3910
Emily.Collins@avantorsciences.com
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