AFYREN Commits to Responsible Care and Receives a Trophy in the "Societal" Category

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AFYREN (Paris:ALAFY)

AFYREN, a greentech company that offers manufacturers natural, low-carbon ingredients produced using unique fermentation technology based on a completely circular model, announced today its commitment to the global Responsible Care and received a trophy illustrating an innovative human resources (HR) policy to support the company's development.

Signature of the Responsible Care global charter

The Responsible Care initiative is the global chemical industry's shared commitment to the safe management of chemical products throughout their life cycle, and the promotion of their role in improving quality of life and their contribution to sustainable development. With the signing of the Responsible Care global charter by Jérémy PESSIOT, AFYREN's co-founder and Managing Director, and Cyril LEPRÊTRE, AFYREN NEOXY's Managing Director, AFYREN is committed to applying its key principles at both global and strategic levels, particularly in its industrial operations.

This strong commitment is fully aligned with the Company's global CSR and QHSE strategy.

Responsible Care trophy awarded

Following its recognition by the Grand Est region, AFYREN has been awarded the national Responsible Care 2024 trophy in the "Societal" category for its innovative recruitment program "Sustainable industrial jobs for all".

Designed in partnership with Pôle Emploi¹, IUT St Avold, OPCO 2I and with the support of France Chimie Grand Est, this program was carried out to complete AFYREN NEOXY's production team, in a context of scarcity of profiles for industrial jobs.

In particular, it relied on the “Simulation Recruitment Method” (Méthode de Recrutement par Simulation), an original recruitment method proposed by Pôle Emploi which focuses on candidates' learning abilities, over and above their experience.

After a selection phase, candidates were trained on all subjects prior to taking up their positions, in particular Safety, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Quality, Environment, Electrical Habilitation and Material Handling Equipment.

Overall, this program led to the recruitment of some twenty employees (including 12 via the SRM method), who embodied AFYREN's values (commitment, agility and humility), and formed a high-performance, committed and diverse production team.

Sandrine HILGERT, AFYREN NEOXY Human Resources Manager, comments: “The results have exceeded our expectations. The program enabled us to attract profiles with complementary and very varied skills and abilities, with a very balanced age range (from 24 to 54), diverse professional experiences sometimes far away from industry (service, transport, crafts...) and two women. During the training period, which lasted several weeks, the 24 operators were able to forge strong bonds of mutual support and solidarity.”