Sustainability

Dear Stakeholders,

At Arxada, sustainability is embedded in how we operate, innovate, and create long-term value. In 2025, we continued to translate our purpose into meaningful progress, strengthening our foundations while advancing solutions that help protect people, products, and the environments in which they are used. This Sustainability Report, The Power of Science & Sustainability, reflects both the momentum we have built and the direction we are intentionally pursuing.

Over the past year, we further integrated sustainability across our governance, operations, and supply chain. Our EcoVadis Gold Medal recognition affirms our performance across environmental practices, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement, placing Arxada among the top five percent of companies assessed globally. As EcoArx entered its second year, we continued embedding sustainable procurement practices across our value chain, strengthening supplier collaboration, enhancing transparency, and supporting long-term resilience. Together, these efforts reinforce sustainability as a business imperative and a foundation of trust with our customers and partners.

Science remains the engine behind everything we do. Across professional hygiene, home and personal care, wood protection, and paints and coatings, Arxada delivers solutions that work reliably and often quietly extending product life, safeguarding performance, and helping reduce waste. We are also leveraging data and artificial intelligence tools to enhance our research and development processes, enabling smarter decision-making, accelerating innovation, and supporting more efficient and sustainable solution design. By combining advanced digital capabilities with deep scientific expertise, we help customers advance their sustainability goals while meeting rigorous performance and regulatory expectations.

Our innovation efforts are aligned with global sustainability priorities, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with particular focus on SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing, SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, and SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production. Through safer chemistry, improved resource efficiency, and solutions that support durability and circularity, we apply sustainability principles from the earliest stages of innovation.

Our 3,200 associates worldwide are central to this progress. We remain committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and engaging work environment grounded in collaboration, accountability, and integrity, strengthening our ability to serve customers and contribute positively to the communities where we operate.

As we move forward, sustainability will continue to guide decision-making across Arxada. With science as our strength and responsibility as our compass, we are well positioned to build on our progress and deliver solutions that help protect what matters most.

Many thanks,