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Chemical distributor recognised for embedding sustainability across its supply chain

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24 September 2026

Chemical distributor recognised for embedding sustainability across its supply chain

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The photo presents a spacious warehouse with tall blue-and-orange storage racks, stacked boxes, pallets, loading bays and marked floor areas.

Brenntag, one of the world's largest chemical distributors, won the Rethink Operational Excellence category for a programme translating corporate sustainability commitments into day-to-day operational practice across its distribution network. For a distributor sitting between chemical manufacturers and thousands of downstream industrial customers, few of whom have direct visibility into upstream production, the award recognises the practical challenge of applying consistent sustainability standards across a highly fragmented value chain rather than a single production site.

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Italy

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Company with 250 or more employees

Industry Associations and Chambers of Commerce

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

  • Policy type

    • Green transition

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Brenntag also received a separate commendation in the same award cycle for CO2Xplorer, its digital emissions-tracking suite, indicating that the company's overall approach pairs organisational and governance-level commitments with the specific digital infrastructure needed to actually measure, verify and report on emissions across a distribution network spanning dozens of countries and thousands of supplier and customer relationships. Distribution is often an overlooked link in discussions about chemicals sector decarbonisation, which tend to focus on production-site emissions, but Brenntag's dual recognition this year points to growing attention on the logistics and handling stages of the value chain as a distinct source of both risk and improvement opportunity.

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