Environment, Health, and Safety

At Cambrex, our firm commitment to health, safety, and environmental sustainability underpins everything we do. We prioritize the well-being of our employees, customers, communities, and all those impacted by our activities and products. We adhere to the highest safety standards and operate preventively to avoid accidents and injuries.

As an integral part of every community in which we operate, we’ve established well-developed risk assessment methods that focus on safely handling and manufacturing our products. These include:

• Risk management programs like ChemStewards® (for US facilities) and Responsible Care® (for European facilities)
• Formal safety reviews before manufacture
• Toxicological risk assessments for all new process introductions
• Extensive safety training programs for employees and contractors
• Use of engineering controls like isolator and barrier technology for potent compound handling
• Hosting an Annual Safety Day for all employees

Our vision is to achieve zero workplace accidents, and we continually focus on improving our safety metrics to make that vision a reality.

At Cambrex, we promote strict environmental compliance and environmentally friendly initiatives at every facility. Each site has programs for reducing emissions and advancing sustainability, and we’re fully committed to continuous improvement in our environmental performance. Our efforts to find the most eco-friendly synthetic routes and processes include sustainable chemistry, advanced wastewater treatment methods and facilities, safe waste handling and management, periodically audited waste disposal facilities, and a commitment to emission reduction. We’re also REACH-compliant.

As part of our commitment to transparency, Cambrex reports our decarbonization efforts annually to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a leading platform for reporting on climate impact that scores the maturity of ESG programs. The Cambrex CDP Climate score for 2025 was B, following a 2024 Climate score of D.
Cambrex was scored in the water category and received a C scoring both in 2024 and 2025.

In both climate and water areas, we are engaged in carbon and water reduction programs at our manufacturing facilities. In 2025, we also had Science Based Targets validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) to achieve carbon reduction targets by 2030. Our first SBTi target is to reduce the total of Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 51.6% from our 2018 baseline year. During 2025 we achieved a level of 55,305 metric tons carbon equivalents for the total of Scope 1 and 2 emissions which represents a reduction of 21.3% from our 2018 baseline. Our second SBTi target is to reduce our Scope 3 emissions by 40% from our 2020 baseline year. During 2025 we achieved a level of 150,524 metric tons carbon equivalents for the total of Scope 3 emissions which represents a reduction of 15.9% from our baseline year.

The table below has our third party verified GHG inventory for 2025. Please note that only Scope 3 Categories 1, 3 and 4 are included in our SBT targets in that all other categories were determined not relevant for our targets as confirmed by the SBTi. Also please note that our Scope 2 commitments are based on market based carbon emissions. We have further underlined all emissions that are relevant to our SBTs.

*All values are reported as metric tons carbon equivalents

Cambrex is also actively engaged in Sustainability with its customers and suppliers through implementation of a Supplier Code of Conduct. This is aligned with the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI). More information on our programs can be found in the Cambrex Supplier Code of Conduct.

 Corporate Social Responsibility Policy

To learn more about our social responsibility and sustainability efforts, download our corporate policy.

Corporate Social Responsibility Policy.