Genencor International, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, is one of the largest global biotechnology companies. Our products are used in diverse markets, ranging from grain processing, to cleaning and fabric care, to biomaterials. We are also developing health care products. We help our customers improve their manufacturing processes and final products, upgrade quality and reduce costs. Our skills in process development and protein engineering have resulted in the creation of new biobased materials and products that touch peoples’ lives everyday. Genencor employs approximately 1,245 people globally.

As we state in our Sustainability Policy, our vision is to become a corporate leader in sustainability. Just as we believe our core competencies differentiate us from our competitors, we want to use innovation and collaboration to further integrate social, environmental and financial performance into our business.

Sustainability is part of our culture, and our employees have always embraced its principles. Today, throughout our operations, we weigh decisions on environmental performance, social equity and financial responsibility. Coupled with our business of developing leading edge technologies and bioproducts to make industrial processes more sustainable and peoples' daily lives easier, we are making our vision a reality.

Achieving sustainability requires continuous improvement processes. We measure our progress using a wide range of metrics. Please visit our website at http://www.genencor.com/sustainability/index.html to view our past performance and recent sustainability developments.

In an effort to understand stakeholders' views on our sustainability efforts, we welcome your comments on our performance and this report. To submit questions and comments, contact sustainability@genencor.com.