We are guided by our true purpose – to use our ethnobotanical knowledge, science, and market insights to create innovative plant-based solutions that promote sustainable, healthy living worldwide.
Deeply rooted on the island of Gran Canaria and having a history of working with unexplored botanicals from stunning locations, we have a profound respect for sustainability and care just as much about how we work as what we produce.
We are on a journey to becoming a Certified B Corporation, transitioning towards a transparent purpose-driven business, being conscious about how our products contribute to sustainable development and how our operations are conceived and managed for a positive impact.
We are making meaningful changes with and for our stakeholders, fostering partnerships based on transparency, authenticity and trust. This also means investing in our people, collaborators, research capabilities and eco-friendly technology, to keep bringing innovative plant-based solutions to the market in a responsible way.
With the aim of sharing our endeavors and our progress towards sustainability, we are proud to present our first-ever Sustainability Report:
Economic sustainability
We continously learn and develop our knowledge so we can offer expert understanding of the behaviour and use of our extracts. We continue to invest in our in-house research and development capabilities as well as our laboratory facilities and sophisticated pilot plant for rapid prototyping.
Enhancing the value propositions of our current portfolio
Investing in research and technology to offer new products
Exploring related sectors for our botanical extracts
Fostering long-term partnerships along our entire value chain
Putting in value all our production side‑streams
Deploying our economic strategy and establishing our key pillars will help us contribute to the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
Environmental sustainability
From how we source our raw materials through to our processing and packaging, we are continuously working on integrating more environmentally sustainable practices into every aspect of our business and supporting our partners to do so, too.
100% of our energy consumption via renewable energy sources
Net zero greenhouse gas emission, fostering CO2 sequestration
20% reduction of energy, water, packaging and chemicals
Fully sustainable and transparent product value chain
Focus on circular economy, making full use of by-products
Deploying our environmental sustainability strategy and establishing our key pillars will help us contribute to the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
Social sustainability
We care about people. In fact, it’s at the centre of everything we do now and aspire to do in the future. While delivering our high-quality botanical ingredient solutions to the market, we’re also thinking about every individual along the value chain.
Stimulating employee engagement in an inspiring environment
Fostering workforce diversity, equity and inclusion
Nurturing a philanthropic culture for local communities
Engaging suppliers to our sustainability values and principles
Promoting a fully fair-trade certified value chain
Placing consumer wellbeing at the heart of our purpose
Deploying our social sustainability strategy and establishing our key pillars will help us contribute to the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
Nektium was approached by a prospective customer to support in the extract production of a botanical sourced from Africa.
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