Clariant holds first Sustainability Dialog in Germany

Clariant  hosted its first Sustainability Dialog on September 2, 2015  in Frankfurt, Germany, to examine the role of sustainability within the specialty chemicals industry and the company’s contribution to a sustainable society.

The event at the Clariant Innovation Center gathered top-level Clariant management with third party experts to foster dialog with important stakeholders from customer industries, politics, NGOs and the media.
More than 150 participants attended he keynote presentations of CEO Hariolf Kottmann, Head of Business Unit Industrial & Consumer Specialties Christian Vang, and guest speaker Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, who talked about sustainable development trends in the specialty chemicals industry and set a framework to larger societal context.

Further highlights throughout the day included a special sustainability focus on India and China, insights on value chain and supply chain collaboration, and the results of Clariant’s screening of the sustainability performance of its product portfolio.