At DSM, sustainability is crucial to who we are and what we do: it is the key business driver that underpins our purpose-led, performance-driven strategy. We started life out over 100 years ago as ‘Dutch State Mines’ making our living from coal and now we’re helping the world to live without it. Over the last century our business has evolved and adapted to a global leader in health, nutrition, materials and clean energy. The DSM acronym has been repurposed to mean “Do Something Meaningful” and our 23,000 employees work to deliver on that promise everyday.

At DSM we're committed to safeguarding our current and future natural resources and unlocking more value from the resources available to us. It’s why at DSM, our scientists now design by the mantra of: reduce, replace, enable, extend and recover. Nearly two-thirds of our entire portfolio comprises what we call Brighter Living Solutions - products and services that have a specific environmental or social benefit compared to mainstream reference solutions. In 2019, our Brighter Living Solutions accounted for 63% of our net sales. In fact, by 2025 every product within the DSM innovation portfolio will be 100% based on the principles of the circular economy.