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Sustainability Reporting

Transparency and Accountability at Our Core

Our sustainability reporting is designed for all stakeholder groups that influence our business or are impacted by it, including commercial and financial partners, investors and shareholders, employees, and society at large. It provides a balanced overview of our activities and Avantium’s ability to generate sustainable long‑term value.

Materiality

To determine the scope of our sustainability focus and ensure 
we address the areas that matter most to Avantium’s business and stakeholders, we carried out a new materiality assessment in 2024 
and 2025. This was our first in-depth materiality assessment since 2022 
and our first to be guided by the requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Accordingly, we used the principle of double materiality to identify and prioritize Avantium’s material sustainability topics: considering both 
our impacts on the world around us and financial risks and opportunities for our business (impacts, risks, and opportunities, or IROs).

Diagram detailing the process Avantium adopted for materiality

A total of 19 topics across the value chain were deemed material. We a phased approach to Avantium’s reporting on these topics, using a weighted score to determine priorities and timelines. In 2026 and 2027, we will focus on the five highest-priority topics:

 

Circular Economy: Outflows

Climate Change: Mitigation

Circular Economy: Inflows

Own Workforce: Health and Safety

Circular Economy: Waste

 

These topics form bases for the sustainability strategy. As a result of in-depth discussions at the Management Team some additional topics are added.

 

For more details on the outcomes of the DMA, please see the Avantium’s Annual Report 2025.

Reporting

We disclose our sustainability performance and progress towards our goals annually as part of the Annual Report. We structure our reporting based on the sustainability priorities and goals that we have defined. To help different users navigate the report and find the information that they are looking for we provide references to several sustainability frameworks content indexes following CSRD and GRI.

Sustainability Frameworks

CSRD Index

GRI Index

Ratings

Ecovadis

Avantium was awarded a Silver Medal by EcoVadis, after a thorough audit of our performance in four categories: environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement.

Sustainalytics

Sustainalytics recognized Avantium as having medium risk for material financial impacts driven by ESG factors.

Discover more

Our Sustainability Strategy
Partnerships and Collective Action
Working at Avantium