ACES Awards for top Green Companies in Asia

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 17 October2018 - More than 15 years of integrating science, businessstrategy and sustainability was recognized today as Royal DSM, a global science-basedcompany active in nutrition, health and sustainable living, was awarded the TopGreen Companies in Asia Award at the 2018 Asia Corporate Excellence &Sustainability (ACES) Awards.

Pieter Nuboer, Vice President, Animal Nutrition and Health, and President, DSM Nutritional Products, Asia Pacific receives the Top Green Companies in Asia award

"We are a science based company that is purposeled, seeking ways to qualitatively change the lives of people for the better," saidPieter Nuboer, Vice President, Animal Nutrition and Health, and President, DSMNutritional Products, Asia Pacific. "Bringing sustainable applications of scienceto consumers at large is at the heart of our purpose and is truly embedded inour DNA. As we continue to grow our impact in Asia, this recognition isparticularly welcome."

The company'scommitment to sustainable practice has been acknowledged globally for many years. It has ranked among global leaders in the materialsindustry group of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the past 15 years andheld the number one position in the sector eight times.

To promote good nutrition amongits employees, DSM serves lunch meals that include fortified rice kernelsenhanced with essential micronutrients to its workers at its Malaysia PremixPlant. In Singapore, these fortified rice kernels are distributed by DSMthrough social enterprise 45RICE, to address nutritional challenges of migrantworkers.

In other activity the company has joined Singapore's#beatplasticpollution campaign to raise awareness of plastic waste.The company also participated in the Healthy Ageing APAC Summit 2018, with itsexecutives speaking on age-relateddiseases caused by malnutrition.

DSM -- Bright Science. Brighter Living.™

Royal DSM is apurpose-led global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living.DSM is driving economic prosperity, environmental progress and social advancesto create sustainable value for all stakeholders. DSM delivers innovativebusiness solutions for human nutrition, animal nutrition, personal care andaroma, medical devices, green products and applications, and new mobility andconnectivity. DSM and its associated companies deliver annual net sales ofabout €10 billion with approximately 23,000 employees. The company islisted on Euronext Amsterdam. 

More information can be found at www.dsm.com.