Sustainability As Business Driver
Sustainability is one of DSM’s key business drivers. For example, many of DSM’s development activities focus on the eventual transition from a fossil-based economy to a biobased economy.
The company is in partnership with POET to commercially demonstrate and license the manufacture of cellulosic ethanol (a biofuel) from corn crop residue through a biological process using enzymatic hydrolysis followed by fermentation.
Similarly DSM is in partnership with Roquette Freres for the commercial-scale production of bio-based succinic acid. Succinic acid is an important chemical building block, used for instance in the food and beverage industry and as a precursor to some specialized polyesters, and is currently produced using fossil feedstock.
Other examples are DSM’s bio-based technologies for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, food and feed ingredients and ‘green’ materials.
DSM also focuses on addressing the challenge of feeding a growing world population. Among other things, DSM is developing ways to combat micronutrient deficiencies in both developing and developed parts of the world. For the developing world it has in place the Nutrition Improvement Program (a business program operated in close coordination with DSM’s humanitarian initiative Sight and Life and its partnership with the United Nations’ World Food Programme). For the developed world DSM’s focus is on fighting vitamin deficiencies via food fortification and supplementation tailored to specific target groups.
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