Ingredion Incorporated.
INGR.US | Manufacture of starches and starch products
Ingredion Incorporated is a global ingredients solutions provider specializing in transforming grains, fruits, vegetables, and other plant-based materials into value-added ingredients and biomaterials for the food, beverage, brewing, pharmaceutical, and industrial sectors. The company's product port...Show More
Better Health for All
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Ingredion demonstrates a strong commitment to better health. Its product portfolio includes ingredients like HI-MAIZE® resistant starch, which has an FDA-approved claim for reducing Type 2 diabetes risk, and other ingredients supporting weight management, metabolic health, and sugar reduction.
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The company is launching a nutritious porridge in Kenya, fortified with 15 micronutrients, targeting 2.4 million underprivileged schoolchildren by 2025.
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Ingredion aims to enact programs in 100% of its operating communities to eradicate childhood hunger by the end of 2025.
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For food safety, 97% of its sites were GFSI certified and 82% of its microbiological labs were ISO 17025 certified in 2019.
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The company also actively mitigates health externalities by working to prevent Aflatoxin growth and aiming to eliminate all WHO Pesticides of Concern from its agricultural supply by 2025.
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Furthermore, Ingredion offers solutions to reduce sugar in products, contributing to addiction mitigation.
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Fair Money & Economic Opportunity
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Ingredion Incorporated is an ingredients solutions provider, and its core business does not involve offering lending, deposit, or other financial services to consumers. The provided articles focus on the company's financial results, sales performance, and investments in manufacturing facilities. Consequently, there is no information or data available in the articles that is relevant to any of the financial services-focused KPIs for Fair Money & Economic Opportunity, such as underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, inclusion initiatives, data accessibility, fair lending compliance, wealth building outcomes, profit reinvestment in community finance, financial literacy initiatives, debt burden ratio, geographic inclusion in banking, or product simplicity of financial products.
Fair Pay & Worker Respect
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No specific quantitative data was provided in the articles for the defined KPIs related to fair pay and worker respect. Information regarding pay, benefits, safety, and employee sentiment was largely qualitative or anecdotal from employee reviews for a specific location (Bedford Park, IL), and did not provide company-wide metrics such as living wage coverage, CEO-median pay ratio, collective bargaining share percentage, recordable occupational injury rate (TRIR), pay equity ratios, employee engagement scores, voluntary turnover rates, substantiated labor violation counts, insecure contract share, or health insurance coverage percentages.
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Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing
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Ingredion includes FCPA clauses in 100% of its supplier contracts, ensuring robust ethical terms.
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The company has 85% of its sustainably sourced tier 1 priority crops meeting gold level standards on the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative’s Farm Sustainability Assessment.
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Additionally, over 65% of its Tier 1 crops, including corn, tapioca, potato, pulses, and stevia, are confirmed sustainably sourced through the SAI Platform, indicating traceable provenance for these inputs.
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Ingredion expects suppliers to agree to its Global Supplier Code of Conduct and engage with SEDEX and EcoVadis communities, with certain suppliers required to complete SMETA 4 pillar audits.
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Honest & Fair Business
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No evidence available to assess Ingredion Incorporated on Honest & Fair Business.
Kind to Animals
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Ingredion has a comprehensive Animal Testing and Welfare Policy, created in 2019
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in collaboration with PETA
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, which prohibits funding, conducting, and commissioning all animal testing unless explicitly required by law or regulation
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. This policy specifically bans experiments for basic research or to establish health or nutritional claims not legally mandated
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. The company's core business involves transforming plant-based materials, and there is no evidence of animal inputs, animal agriculture operations, or sourcing of eggs, meat, or dairy, leading to N/A scores for related KPIs. Ingredion's collaboration with PETA on its animal testing policy demonstrates engagement in animal welfare policy improvement
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No War, No Weapons
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Ingredion Incorporated does not use 3TG minerals (tin, tungsten, titanium, and gold) as raw materials or in their production processes.
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Planet-Friendly Business
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Ingredion's 2030 emissions reduction targets were approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) on December 1, 2022, committing to a 28% absolute reduction in Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions
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and a 15% absolute reduction in Scope 3 emissions from a 2019 base year
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. However, the company has not specified a net-zero target year
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. Renewable electricity accounted for approximately 31% of global electricity purchases
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. The company diverted 92% of waste from landfill globally
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. In February 2023, the Illinois EPA issued a Notice of Violation regarding certain air emissions exceeding limits at a manufacturing facility, which the company had reported in September 2022
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; no material fines were imposed in 2024
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Respect for Cultures & Communities
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The provided article, a summary of Ingredion's 2022 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report, explicitly states that it does not contain any quantitative data related to community engagement, cultural impact, or other specific metrics relevant to the 'Respect for Cultures & Communities' value
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Safe & Smart Tech
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Ingredion has reported no material cybersecurity breaches to date.
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While an incident involving suspicious activity on data center servers was detected, no evidence of customer, supplier, or employee data compromise was found.
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The company also states that no specific incidents of unauthorized data use have been mentioned.
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Ingredion conducts regular security awareness training, phishing exercises, vulnerability assessments, and penetration tests, and engages external consultants for security activities.
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Zero Waste & Sustainable Products
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No evidence available to assess Ingredion Incorporated on Zero Waste & Sustainable Products.