Syngenta Biologicals' commitment to sustainability:
The Environmental Product Declaration
In agriculture, where reducing environmental impact is increasingly important, it’s vital to understand the true footprint of a product or solution. As part of our ongoing commitment to sustainability, we work to achieve what’s called Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certification of our portfolio. This independent certification helps drive continuous improvement of our solutions and establishes ourselves as a partner of choice in the food production value chain.
What is EPD certification?
Think of an EPD as a nutrition label – but instead of showing you calories and ingredients, it shows you information about a product or service’s environmental impact along its entire life cycle. An EPD is an independently verified report that also allows comparison of products fulfilling the same function.
The impact of a product is measured by using the Life Cycle Assessment methodology, an objective approach which considers all the inputs and outputs associated with its life cycle, from raw materials extraction to the reuse, recycling or disposal of final waste.
Why is EPD important?
We believe that our goal to make agricultural production more sustainable while retaining quality and quantity can only be reached by making every link in the value chain sustainable, starting with our own solutions.
Having EPD certification also helps farmers and partners understand in a clear and objective way the true environmental footprint of our products, supporting their sustainable farming decisions with transparent, verified and comparable data.
From a business perspective, it allows us to gain deeper understanding of our environmental performances with the aim of continually improving our portfolio.
Why does Syngenta Biologicals' need EPD certification?
EPD certification is the next step in Syngenta Biologicals' sustainability journey which began in the 1990s with initiatives carried out by our legacy company, Valagro.
The certifications earned by our historical Atessa plant reflect our ongoing commitment to caring for the environment, product quality and workers’ health and safety.
Today, our journey continues as Syngenta Biologicals with the expansion of EPD certification to the other products in our portfolio. We have achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first company to obtain EPDs for eight products under the newly-established biostimulants category in the EPD International framework.
Our sustainability certification milestones
1990s
Valagro obtained the ISO 9001 and 14001 environmental certification.
2007
Valagro obtained the ISO 45001 quality system certification.
2014
Valagro obtained the ISO 22005 certification.
2016
Valagro obtained the ISO 14064 (Corporate Carbon Footprint) certification for emissions and the EMAS certification. The former, was dismissed in 2017 since product emissions are now covered by EMAS certification.
2022
EPD process certification of the Atessa plant and certification of 4 products .
2023
Certification of India and Brazil plants and certification extension to a total of 19 products manufactured across sites.
2025
First company to obtain EPDs for 8 products in the new Biostimulants category.
*Syngenta has adopted a global improvement system aimed at achieving workers' safety and wellbeing, product and process quality, respect for the environment, which has been followed by a specific certification programme.
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