06.09.17
BASF has further strengthened its operations network for certified palm products. The company manufactures certified ingredients at 20 locations around the world for the cosmetic, detergent and cleaning agent industries. This production network also includes the BASF factories at Gebze (Turkey) and Dahej (India): they have now received the Supply Chain Certificate of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) as BASF announced on the occasion of the RSPO’s fifth annual European Roundtable in London.
“With our sites in Turkey and India, we are able to offer the optimal conditions required for changing over to certified ingredients to our customers in all key regions. It all depends just how quickly we can jointly transform the market to sustainable products along the entire value chain,” said Jan-Peter Sander, SVP BASF Personal Care Europe.
Each year, 71 million tons of palm products are manufactured globally. Around 10% of this is palm kernel oil. This represents approximately seven million tons of palm kernel oil, of which only about 1.3 million tons are currently RSPO-certified. For many years, BASF has advocated to make sustainable oil palm products the industry standard in the cosmetics, detergents and cleaning agent industries.
“With our sites in Turkey and India, we are able to offer the optimal conditions required for changing over to certified ingredients to our customers in all key regions. It all depends just how quickly we can jointly transform the market to sustainable products along the entire value chain,” said Jan-Peter Sander, SVP BASF Personal Care Europe.
Each year, 71 million tons of palm products are manufactured globally. Around 10% of this is palm kernel oil. This represents approximately seven million tons of palm kernel oil, of which only about 1.3 million tons are currently RSPO-certified. For many years, BASF has advocated to make sustainable oil palm products the industry standard in the cosmetics, detergents and cleaning agent industries.