Mission and values

At Cristal Union, collective logic has always been our driving force for anticipating changes, defending our values and meeting challenges. Proud to be a cooperative, we know that our success comes from our unity: that of ever more responsible agricultural, industrial and commercial expertise.

At the heart of today’s and tomorrow’s challenges we face a huge responsibility : that of preserving the land we cultivate. In direct contact with the environment on a daily basis, our cooperative members are the first to be aware of the challenges we have to take up. They are constantly adapting their agricultural practices to make them ever more sustainable. With them, we are investing in R&D in order to determine the best means of exploiting the full potential of our raw material, sugar beet.

Committed to sustainability, our industrial sites are at the forefront of water and energy savings and decarbonisation.

• All our sugar factories are water self-sufficient, and our distilleries will be too in 2030!
• All our sites, which have already completed their first energy transition, are ahead of their 2030 decarbonisation and energy saving targets.

Anchored in the heart of our regions and resolutely oriented towards the future, we know that much remains to be invented. To do this, we will remain faithful to the roots that we hold so dear, and undertake to help our partners share in our operations.

Our values evolve with us and they reflect what we have become, our personality, our DNA.

UNITED

• Because we are a cooperative,
• Because of this collective strength that we find in the people employed within our group,
• Because of how we work together every day to improve our practices,
• Because, never short of new projects, we know how to share ideas and build effective solutions together to achieve our goals.

EXPERTS

• Because, no matter what the activity or field of expertise, we support our employees on a daily basis to acquire the right skills and the expertise they need to grow and develop within our Group.

AGILE

• Because we know how to adapt our organization, our ways of working and our facilities to the challenges of the unexpected,
• Because we know how to anticipate tomorrow’s challenges.

COMMITTED

• Because we are a committed organization with an environmental conscience,
• Because we recover 100% of our raw material, sugar beet, thus conserving precious resources like water and energy,
• Because we are able to develop our product ranges and our packaging with more responsible product ranges,
• Because, within our Group, we have the support of committed women and men on a daily basis.