Expanscience publishes its 3rd mission report

Faced with the climate emergency, Expanscience is accelerating its transformation and reaffirming its ambition to become a regenerative company

 

2024 marks an important milestone in our journey as a mission-driven company. Following the adoption of this status in 2021, we publish our third mission report, marked by major progress in terms of decarbonisation and social policy. We confirm our ability to combine economic health, ecological redirection and social progress to meet our challenge of becoming a regenerative company with positive impact.

 

Decarbonisation: staying on track to balance performance and sustainability

 

Driven by our trajectory validated by the Science Based Targets initiative since 2023, we have achieved our objective of reducing our carbon footprint (-3%¹ in absolute terms between 2023 and 2024) while increasing our turnover. 

It is the result of structuring actions, initiated over the last two years, which is paying off, allowing us to achieve our goal of -35% GHG emissions by 2030.²

These actions include, but are not limited to: 

• Stopping plane deliveries for South America, Malaysia and Vietnam, in addition to the global reduction in air transport initiated several years ago for logistics flows;
• The integration of carbon accounting, which allocates a CO₂eq budget not to be exceeded, in order to better manage emissions linked to logistics flows and business travel;
• For the first time, measuring the company’s biodiversity footprint and implementing action plans: a major strategic decision while 99% of Expanscience’s turnover depends on biodiversity. 

At the same time, we are already preparing for the future by investing more than 30 million euros over the period 2025-2027, to decarbonise our Epernon plant (reduction in gas requirements by 49% and 32% reduction in GHG compared to 2019) and increase our production capacities. Another major challenge is the management of water stress: we aim to reduce our water consumption by 25% by 2027, again at our Epernon site.
 

Making well-being a key lever in the corporate strategy, thanks to a common social foundation for all employees

 

As a mission-driven and B Corp-certified company, we are first and foremost committed to our teams by building an ever more inclusive and supportive working environment, to become a leading company on essential issues such as parenthood, occupational health or supporting vulnerabilities. 

This drive is reflected in the deployment of an ambitious policy, the “Care Policy”, which guarantees essential social security for its employees all over the world, with a minimum threshold of key guarantees (private health insurance, pension, etc.).

We have also implemented pioneering measures in terms of parenting and occupational health, both close to the company's heart: 100% of parents are entitled to gradual return to work in the first two months after maternity or paternity leave, while remaining on full salary.

These progresses illustrate the ambition to tangibly implement our mission, while taking into consideration well-being in all its individual, collective and environmental aspects.
 

Find all of Expanscience’s progress and monitoring indicators in our Mission Report 2024.

 

 

¹ From 60,894 tonnes CO2 equivalent in 2024 compared to 66,661 in 2022
 ² Compared to 2019 on scopes 1, 2, 3, in absolute reduction