Carte des matières premières

Cedar

Historic partnership since 2010

Social Actions:

The distillation plant associated with logging is a reliable source of income for families in the region
Annual contract purchase

Environmental actions:

Virginia cedar currently grows twice as fast as it is harvested, combined with its natural mortality.

Valorization of scrap from furniture industries and sawmill by-products

Natural molecules

Established in 1999

Partnership with a company producing natural molecules through the use of biotechnology.

This facility is the most sophisticated and important facility for the production of natural molecules in biotechnology worldwide.

Products
Vetiver

First historic partnership since 1996 and second partnership since 2005.

Social Actions:

Main source of income for households. Ensures a competitive income for producers and a premium is paid to them for the purchase of certified vetiver
Purchase of about 25% of the vetiver produced in Haiti
The sector involves 30,000 to 40,000 people

Societal Actions:

Financial assistance and participation in the reconstruction following the passage of the last cyclone.
Construction of an infirmary within the factory
Construction of a refectory for all staff and accessible to all.
Opening of a bank within the factory to trace money transfers.
Provision of water for the inhabitants of the city
Installation of a fire hydrant for city firefighters
Creation of a development fund in 2014 to:
The construction of the YMCA community centre in 2016 including sports activities, homework and reading aids for children, literacy classes for adults.
Purchase of school supplies
Drilling a well in 2018
Participation in mobile clinical fees in 2018
Construction of a drinking water kiosk in 2020

Environmental actions:

Implementation of a tracking system (producer, collector, plant) to ensure the traceability of the vetiver from the plots.
Certification «Fair for life» for part of the sector, delivered by Ecocert to ensure the total traceability of the vetiver.

Partnership Established: Historical

Products: Cardamom

Overview: This historical partnership focuses on the cultivation, processing, and distribution of cardamom, leveraging long-term relationships to ensure sustainable practices and support for local communities.

Key Actions and Commitments:

1. Sustainability and Ethical Practices: Emphasizing the adherence to ethical sourcing and environmental stewardship throughout the cardamom supply chain.
2. Community Support and Development: Providing ongoing support to cardamom farmers, including educational programs, healthcare, and infrastructure improvements to enhance the quality of life in farming communities.
3. Economic Stability: Ensuring stable and fair prices for cardamom crops, thereby offering financial security for farmers and their families.
4. Quality and Traceability: Maintaining high standards of quality control and full traceability from farm to market to ensure product integrity and consumer trust.

Partnership Established in 2015

Products:
Ambrette

**Auditing and Standards:**
The supply chain has been audited according to the SMETA 4-pillar framework, ensuring compliance with labor conditions, health and safety standards, environmental regulations, and ethical practices.

**Societal Actions:**
– Pre-financing of ambrette seed crops at a fair price to secure production.
– Support for small producers in diversifying and augmenting their income, facilitating the spread of harvest times and the scheduling of processing activities.

Partnership Established in 2004

Products:
Tonka Bean

**Social Actions:**
– Pre-financing of tonka bean crops at a fair price, supporting 2,000 to 3,000 families.
– Our partner accepts any quantity from small collectors as it is a major economic activity and a source of income in these remote regions.

**Societal Actions:**
– Technical support: 17 trucks and 8 boat engines (people use canoes in the Amazon) have been provided, and two operational units have been built for post-harvest handling and storage of beans in the collection area.
– Organization of social actions to improve the living conditions of the locals. One to two times a year, a medical campaign allows teams of doctors to visit indigenous families living in remote areas and provide medical assistance. In 2019, 20 tons of rice were also distributed to aid the poorest communities.

**Environmental Actions:**
– Raising awareness about best practices for forest conservation.
– Traceability to the collection area.

Historical Partnership, Both Producer and Processor

Family Business: Fazenda

**Social Actions:**
– Yerba mate has significant economic and social importance across the sub-region, providing income and numerous jobs.

**Societal Actions:**
– Provision of several houses with all amenities (water, electricity, gardens for vegetable growing and small livestock) for employees.
– Implementation of a minibus service, which also provides transportation for employees from the city.
– Availability of a soccer field for employee use.

**Environmental Actions:**
– Replanting of eucalyptus used as firewood.
– No use of fungicides or insecticides.
– Implementation of Good Agricultural Practices.
– Agronomic research projects.
– Seed improvement (varietal selection) for the production of cuttings (enhancement of plants and their yields).
– Araucaria replanting project (beneficial for the maté crop).
– Long-term investment in a drying unit to increase productivity.

Partnership Established in 1997

Products:
Schinus Molle

**Exclusive Partnership:**
Developed with a Bolivian university to finance the distillation of Schinus Molle berries.

**Societal Actions:**
– Financing of distillation equipment for Schinus Molle berries.
– Profits used to support research programs on local diseases.
– Conducting research on other plant species on behalf of the Group.

**Petit Grain**

**Historic Partnership:**
Since the early 2000s.

**Social Actions:**
– The harvesting of petitgrain involves 15,000 small producers, 250 collectors, and 65 workers. The labor force for leaf harvesting is exclusively family-based.
– This activity also encourages agricultural cooperation among neighboring producers.
– Petit grain supports 50,000 to 60,000 people, providing them with a regular income.

**Environmental Actions:**
– Producers engage in environmentally friendly agriculture that does not use chemical inputs, pesticides, or irrigation.

**Guaiac (Gaïac)**

**Historic Partnerships:**
With two partners since the early 2000s.

**Social Actions:**
– The guaiac essential oil supply chain involves more than 200 to 250 families. Additionally, families working in the guaiac wood industry represent a larger number.

**Environmental Actions:**
– A controlled and traceable supply chain. Guaiac wood comes from supply chains compliant with laws concerning the protection and use of forest resources in Paraguay.
– Two entities, MADES (Ministerio del Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible) and INFONA (Instituto Forestal Nacional), are responsible for the proper management of forest resources in Paraguay.
– Operations are conducted according to annual permits.
– Oversight ensures proper forest management and compliance with wood exploitation operations.
– Monitoring of collection areas and quantities harvested ensures traceability back to the collection zone.
– Forest operations are conducted under a selective cutting principle and silvicultural treatments that promote the regeneration of the forest population.
– All species of Guaiacum are listed in CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). This international governmental agreement, signed in 1973, ensures that the international trade of species listed in its appendices, as well as the parts and products derived from them, does not harm biodiversity conservation and is based on sustainable use of wild species.
– The CITES management authority sets quotas and issues export permits for guaiac wood and oil, controlling the exploitation of this resource.

Tea Tree

**Environmental Actions:**

– **Waste Valorization**: Residues from the extraction process are reused as fertilizer and incorporated as mulch.
– **Sustainable Harvesting**: The essential oil is extracted from the leaves of the tree obtained after pruning; the tree remains in place, and a new crop is cultivated from the same tree over the next 9 to 12 months.
– **Wildlife and Flora Protection**: Part of a comprehensive environmental plan that protects some of Australia’s rarest wildlife and plant species, fostering biodiversity.
– **Water Management**: Efficient use of water through dams and a high-quality irrigation system. All water used in the distillation process is recycled.

– **Manufacturing Standards**: The distillation plant was built according to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards.

Products
Patchouli

Robertet sources from four suppliers:

– An in-house channel since 2019
– A preferred partner since 2016
– Two historical suppliers since 1995 and 2008

**In-House Channels**

**Social Actions**
– Revives the patchouli economy, which had disappeared in the region
– Provides income for farmers and adds value to their land
– Robertet commits to purchasing the entire volume produced

**Societal Actions**
– Establishes a cooperative bringing together farmers

**Environmental Actions**
– 30 hectares are already in production, with more plantations being developed.
– Good management of the plantations, ensuring the sustainability of the supply chain and traceability from the raw material to the fields.
– Provides producers with a communal distillery to process Patchouli under optimal conditions. Installation of gas burners to replace wood as fuel.
– Adherence to Good Agricultural Practices

**Partnership and Historical Suppliers**

**Social Actions**
– Patchouli cultivation is the main source of income for growers and their families (accounting for over 30% of their income)
– Through its partners, Robertet’s Patchouli supply chain involves more than 3,000 small farmers, as well as 200 collectors and 300 factory workers.

**Environmental Actions**
– Training in good agricultural practices
– Awareness of natural compost production, courses on identifying major diseases that can affect Patchouli
– Establishment of a nursery
– Commitment to improving the processes of drying and distillation.
– No use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides: Uses natural fertilizers such as manure or compost from already distilled patchouli leaves.
– Smart organization of cropping systems: resting areas and development of intercropping cover crops
– Utilizes spent raw material after distillation as fuel for the boiler or as compost.

Partnership Agreement
Jasmin Grandiflorum, Sambac, Sepale

Exclusive production under the agreement with the co-producer:
Fenugreek

Developed partnership with the Phaladaayi Foundation in India.
Lemongrass & Palmarosa.

Through concrete actions, this partnership aligns with the commitment to environmental preservation and supporting local farmers. Support ranges from recruitment to training, and from advice to assistance in converting lands to organic agriculture.

Transparent and fair purchasing prices. All member farmers practice « social equity, » which encourages children to receive education and improves hygiene conditions in families. Today, the association includes a total of 110 people.

Cypriol

Historic partnership since 1999 with our main supplier.
Partnership with a second supplier since 2014, to meet the growing market demand.

Social Actions:

Contracts guaranteeing reliable and predictable incomes to collectors (The collection of papyrus involves more than 2500 people, including local communities).

Environmental Actions:

Organization of harvesting in various wetlands through the establishment of a collection plan and setting up a field team if necessary. This collection plan is supervised by the Indian Government’s Forest Department. This allows the papyrus to regenerate naturally and ensures sustainable collection of papyrus in the region.

Traceability throughout the production chain: from the collection area to the final product.

Vanilla, Geranium Bourbon

Vanilla

Robertet works with Bourbon Natural Sourcing (BNS) and two local partners.

Social actions

• The vanilla sector helps to revive the entire regional economy, providing a source of income for local communities.
• The cooperative’s entire production is purchased at the right price.

Social actions

• Support and monitoring of farmers in the management of their orchards.
• Technical support

NGOS & SOCIAL PROJECTS

• Rehabilitation of a three-classroom elementary school
• Reconstruction of a nursery school
• Distribution of school supplies at the start of the school year.
• Work in progress on rebuilding and extending the dispensary.

Environmental actions

• Total control over the purchase of beans through to drying.
• Part of our vanilla production is certified organic. In fact, 175 hectares are dedicated to organic farming and are Ecocert-certified. We are also in the process of obtaining UEBT certification for this sector.
• Creation of a cooperative grouping 186 producers committed to respecting good agricultural practices in line with Ecocert specifications, thus guaranteeing that vanilla pods are picked when ripe.
• Training in Good Agricultural Practices

Annual inspection and mapping of plots. Traceability to the field.

Geranium Bourbon

Established in 1997

Sustainable development actions:

• This partnership has made it possible to create and finance, with several other donors and users of essential geranium oils, the « SCHOOL Association » (http://www.school.asso.fr). This association aims to improve local living conditions.
• Training and technological assistance to improve organic farming.
• Long-term essential oil purchase contract
• Firm commitments on purchase prices
• Financial support to improve local living conditions and children’s education (52 schools and over 1,500 children attending school, construction of housing for teachers, sponsorship of over 350 families, construction of 2 wells, creation of a market in Manakarabe).

Incense, Myrrh

Incense

Robertet works mainly with 2 incense suppliers

Social action:

Harvesting provides an additional source of income for local communities.

Pre-harvest positioning on quantities, Robertet commits to buying at the right price.

Social actions:

• Provision of various training courses
• Improving the livelihoods of rural families.
• Construction of 2 health centers, mainly for maternity treatments. Training of midwives
• Support for movements against female genital mutilation (FGM)
• 84 first-aid centers have been set up and made available to the community in particular, for the treatment of accidents or injuries related to collection in the event of occurrence.
• Donation of basic foodstuffs to local residents (oil, rice, sugar, canned fish, water, etc.)
• Construction of 3 new schools
• 16 rainwater catchments, or boreholes to capture rainwater, were initiated to enable communities and their animals to have continuous access to water, particularly during the dry season.
• 4 water wells were dug for drinking water in 4 communities

Environmental actions :

• Training in good agricultural practices
• Our partner trains collectors every year in sustainable resin collection methods, hygiene, traceability, product quality, sustainability, resin storage in the field, etc.

Myrrh

Long-term historical partnership with a local supplier

Social actions:

• A fair price is applied, enabling producers to earn a better income (income-generating activity for local communities).

Social actions :

• Implementation of community projects to improve living conditions for producers and their families: construction of schools, health centers, community wells, rainwater catchments or boreholes.

Environmental actions:

• Training in sustainable resin collection methods, hygiene, traceability, product quality, durability, resin storage in the field, etc.
• To ensure the sustainability of the trees, they are not harvested every year. A one-year resting period is established between 2-3 harvesting seasons. Only mature trees are harvested.

Partnership established in 1999

Products

Orange blossom, Rosemary, Myrtle

Social actions:

• Application of fair remuneration
• Pre-harvest commitment

Environmental actions:

• In order to become self-sufficient, our partner has developed its own fields over the last ten years. Today, 42 hectares of orange blossom fields have been planted.
• Installation of a joint distillery

Partenariat établi en 2010

Partnership established in 2010

Products

Orange blossom, Rose, Iris

Social actions:

• Additional source of income for local populations

Social actions:

• Robertet has provided technical and financial support to its suppliers.
• Robertet is committed to a policy of salary non-discrimination for permanent and non-permanent workers.

Environmental actions :

• Supply of equipment to improve rose crop yields.

Lemon, Bergamot Mandarin

Historic partnership since 1990.

Social actions:

• Contracts guaranteeing reliable, predictable income for growers.
• Annual contract purchasing and pre-harvest positioning.

Environmental actions :

• Traceability all the way to the field (thanks to the establishment of the PDO (Protected Designation of Origin).
• Commitment to sourcing natural ingredients with respect for people and biodiversity. Obtaining the UEBT label (Union for Ethical BioTrade Standard)
• Application of Good Agricultural Practices

Partenariat établi en 2012.

Produits : Immortelle

Actions sociales

– Financement de plantations

Actions environnementales:

– Processus d’extraction certifié BIO.

– Co-développement d’huiles essentielles méditerranéennes.