Environment

How we are working to create a sustainable future

Ipsen is continually looking at how we can optimise our processes to minimise our impact on the climate and create positive change. Here are a few examples:

Ipsen is committed to achieving a sustainable real estate footprint to minimise the climate impact of our office locations. Our U.K. hub was moved to London in the first quarter of 2024 to maximise our ability to collaborate effectively across functions, harness the power of innovation with our R&D and commercialisation teams and ultimately limit our impact on the environment.

In 2021, Ipsen signed up for the Net Zero ambition, and our specific goals are to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% by 2025, and 50% by 2030. Ipsen U.K. & Ireland account for almost 50% of Ipsen’s total global energy consumption, as our site in Wrexham manufactures products for distribution globally and is one of four development centres. This means Ipsen U.K. & Ireland have a crucial role to play in meeting our ambitious sustainability targets, and we are committed to making improvements to get there. At our Wrexham site, we use 100% renewable energy across our production and research units and have completed several facility-based improvements to reduce carbon output. These include new energy-efficient gas boilers, chilled plants, automatic comfort cooling, a continued focus on sub-metering for gas, electricity and water, sourcing local suppliers, solar panels on all buildings built post-2018, and thermal insulation upgrades. Adopting these changes to our production and research units has enabled us to meet our sustainability goals.

Ipsen has been powered by 100% renewable energy in Ireland since 2018 with electrical car charging being available from the same time. There has been zero waste in landfills since 2013. Annually, programmes are run to increase biodiversity on our Dublin footprint. Since 2017, the site has invested almost € 10 million in environmental projects to improve the sustainability of the site.

We launched our ‘Fleet for the Future’, a project which aims to reduce fleet GHC emissions by more than 40% by 2025. We are doing this by improving the energy efficiency of our car fleet and switching to electric vehicles where possible. At our Wrexham site we have installed EV charging points to reduce environmental pollution.