IFF has released its 2025 Do More Good Report, showcasing how sustainability is becoming a central driver of innovation across its flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and biosciences portfolio. Framed around the theme “The Science of Possible,” the report highlights progress in conscious sourcing, intentional innovation, future-focused operations and strategic partnerships, demonstrating how the company is leveraging nature-based science to create environmental and business value.
Among the report’s headline achievements, IFF-enabled products helped customers avoid 27.2 million metric tons of CO2-equivalent emissions in 2025—more than 19 times the company’s own manufacturing emissions. Additionally, 77% of products launched between 2023 and 2025 incorporated a sustainability value proposition, while 70 natural ingredients earned Ecocert For Life certification. Operationally, IFF reported a 21% reduction in total recordable incident rates and achieved 100% employee completion of business ethics training.
The report also spotlights several sustainability initiatives across the value chain. In food ingredients, IFF is advancing a circular bioeconomy model through rosemary sourcing and processing. By working under long-term contracts with growers, locating extraction facilities close to plantations and upcycling plant-based side streams into higher-value ingredients, the company is reducing waste while maximizing resource efficiency.
In Madagascar, IFF’s Sustainable Vanilla Program continues to strengthen one of the world’s most important vanilla supply chains. The initiative focuses on farmer training, income diversification, biodiversity protection and supply resilience. Phase two of the program, launched at the end of 2024 and running through 2027, is expected to support approximately 1,500 vanilla cooperative members and their families, benefiting an estimated 5,700 people through agricultural and community-development programs.
Within fragrance innovation, IFF highlighted Envirocap, its biodegradable scent-delivery technology for fabric care applications. Built on a nature-inspired biopolymer, the platform is designed to meet emerging microplastics regulations while maintaining fragrance performance, creative flexibility and cost efficiency. The technology is biodegradable, vegan-suitable and REACH compliant, offering brands a more sustainable path to long-lasting scent experiences.
The report also details efforts to improve sustainability in industrial biotechnology through enhanced distillers corn oil (DCO) recovery. IFF says many ethanol plants capture only 50–60% of available oil, leaving economic and environmental value untapped. By combining advanced enzyme technologies, process analytics and plant-wide optimization strategies, the company aims to help producers increase yields, reduce waste and lower carbon intensity across ethanol operations.
