{"id":46,"date":"2012-12-14T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csicolorworld.com\/wiki\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2012-12-14T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:22:46","slug":"dystar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ecolorworld.com\/wiki\/dystar\/","title":{"rendered":"About DyStar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52 alignleft\" alt=\"DyStar Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/ecolorworld.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/12\/Home.png\" width=\"181\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DyStar is a leading provider of products and services for the global textile industry. With a heritage of over 100 years of both product and application innovation, DyStar was founded in 1995 as a coloration specialist for the textile and leather industries. Since then, the company has transformed itself into a solution provider, offering customers a complete range of colorants, auxiliaries and services. The DyStar Group has offices, competence centers, agencies and production plants in over 50 countries to ensure expertise is both global and local for brands &amp; retailers, mills and dye-houses.<div class=\"woo-sc-hr\"><\/div>\n<h1 id=\"section-1\">Our History<\/h1>\n<p>Building on a heritage of more than 150 years of experience of textile dyes, DyStar now offers customers a full range of dyes, auxiliaries and services. Our diversity, creativity and innovative strength are the cornerstones of our success and will ensure we remain a reliable partner for our customers in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"woo-sc-hr\"><\/div>\n<h1 id=\"section-2\">Our Vision Statement<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cWe aspire to become the world\u2019s most sustainable and responsible supplier of colors, chemicals and services to the global textile industry.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With a legacy of over 100 years in product and application innovation, DyStar had started out as a coloration specialist for the textile industry. Anticipating the growth of our customers\u2019 needs, DyStar have since transitioned to a solution provider for the textile industry, offering Brands, Retailers and their industry partners a complete and comprehensive range of colors, chemicals and services.<\/p>\n<p>DyStar, today, is committed to empowering and motivating its employees to enhance its legacy with solutions that have positive impact on the People, Planet, and Profit.<\/p>\n<p>With a dual-pronged sustainability strategy; DyStar on one hand, aims to help all customers reduce their environmental impact with our market-leading products and sustainable solutions, and on the other hand, have also taken initiatives to reduce our social and environmental impact of our operations, resulting in increased efficiency and lower costs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This will be in accordance to our Core Values of our Mission:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expertise in Product &amp; Service Innovation<\/li>\n<li>Integrity<\/li>\n<li>Market and Customer Focus<\/li>\n<li>Understanding the Brands &amp; Retailers<\/li>\n<li>Leader in Product Safety &amp; Ecology<\/li>\n<li>People Excellence<\/li>\n<li>Quality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"woo-sc-hr\"><\/div>\n<h1 id=\"section-3\">Sustainability at DyStar<\/h1>\n<p>With the release of our first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dystar.com\/2010-Sustainability-Report.cfm\">Sustainability Report<\/a>, we have set an example of industry leadership in sustainability. Our annual Sustainability Report now puts us ahead of competition, and establishes us as an industry leader in sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>We have committed to annually publish DyStar\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dystar.com\/2010-Carbon-Report.cfm\">Carbon Footprint Report<\/a>\u00a0and Sustainability Report and we are also expanding the scope of Sustainability Reporting by including many more performance indicators for the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Our first sustainability report reflects our performance in 2010, the first year for which we measured our performance. We have established 2010 as the base year for comparing our future performance.<\/p>\n<p>We are now focusing on setting realistic targets to continuously improve our sustainability performance in areas that we consider as material to our business and our stakeholders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"woo-sc-hr\"><\/div>\n<h1 id=\"section-4\">Our Sustainability Strategy<\/h1>\n<p>Our Sustainability Strategy is twofold. Reduce our own environmental impact and help our customers to reduce their environmental impact.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dystar.com\/my_uploads\/image\/switch_small.jpg\" width=\"186\" height=\"123\" \/><br \/>\nWe have identified energy, greenhouse gas emissions, water, and waste as the main environmental impacts that we should focus on. Our target is to reduce environmental impact in these four areas by 20% by 2020. Our aim is to achieve this goal by reducing our impact by 2% every year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With this vision, we have implemented our company wide Sustainability Initiative \u201cCaring for the Future\u201d program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"woo-sc-hr\"><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"section-5\">Our Sustainability Drive \u2013 Caring for the future<\/h2>\n<p>Initiating this program, we have formed \u201cSustainability Councils\u201d who will have the responsibility to drive sustainability in their regions by identifying opportunities for reductions and finding creative solutions to enhance sustainability performance.<\/p>\n<p>At production levels, a number of initiatives to reduce our environmental impact are already underway. Our Sustainability Council members at production sites are continuously looking into innovative and sustainable production practises to reduce our impact.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that our sustainability efforts to reduce energy consumption, water use, waste and other resources will make us more cost effective and competitive.<\/p>\n<p>As a company, we also feel our responsibility towards society. One of the ways by which we can effectively contribute to society is to use our expertise to solve problems that societies face. We can do this by collaborating with local governments, research institutions and universities to develop affordable solutions in the area of drinking water, water conservation, green energy, and environmental education.<\/p>\n<div class=\"woo-sc-hr\"><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"section-6\">Annual CEO Sustainability Awards<\/h2>\n<p>Furthermore, we have announced that the success of our company wide Sustainability Program \u201cCaring for the Future\u201d, would be linked to an annual award scheme. At the end of each year, we would evaluate the regional successes of our sustainability program and the best entries would be given the CEO Award.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on our responsibility, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dystar.com\/Contact.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"woo-sc-hr\"><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"section-7\">Compliance Management<\/h2>\n<p>As one of the premier companies in its field with a truly global reach, DyStar operates in many different legal jurisdictions and cultures, and is responsible for complying with the law in the countries in which it works. A compliance management system coordinates and supports employees to help them act in accordance with our Core\u00a0Values and Code of Conduct.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dystar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DyStar visit our website&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DyStar is a leading provider of products and services for the global textile industry. With a heritage of over 100 years of both product and application innovation, DyStar was founded in 1995 as a coloration specialist for the textile and leather industries. 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