VNCI rewards top performance of Agro

June 01, 2008

VNCI rewards top performance of DSM Agro (now OCI AGRO) with the Responsible Care Award 2008

DSM Agro (now OCI AGRO) in Geleen (the Netherlands) is the first company in the world to reduce its emissions of dinitrogen oxide (N2O) to zero. The emission of greenhouse gases from a nitric acid plant has never before been so greatly reduced. In doing so the company makes an important contribution towards the solution of the climate change problem.
Therefore the VNCI (Association of the Dutch Chemical Industry) awarded DSM Agro with the prestigious Responsible Care Award 2008. The award is made annually to the company that has made impressive progress in the area of Safety, Health and the Environment and that is an example to other companies.

The project’s impact is great; as a greenhouse gas, the effect of dinitrogen oxide is around three hundred times that of CO2.
It has the same effect as though there were one million less cars on the Dutch roads or if 500 million trees were planted in the Netherlands. “A performance on a world scale and worthy winner of the Responsible Care Award 2008” according to Wim Hafkamp, Chairman of the jury for the Responsible Care Award.