From our beginnings in Canada in 1877, our strength has been our ability to meet the needs of our customers with high value chemical and specialty products. Our strong commitment to research and development has delivered a continuing stream of new and improved products. We have placed high value on safety, development of our people and on personal and corporate integrity. Our people have a tradition of innovation and dedication to the enterprise. They have exceptional skills in developing, manufacturing and marketing technology intensive products and services.

We believe business excellence stems from people excellence. We will attract, challenge and retain highly talented people and help them develop their full potential. We will work to design jobs and roles that will provide stimulating and exciting opportunities for all and in which each of us can find meaning and significance in our work.

We will foster individual initiative, mutual respect, personal dignity and an open and participative environment. We will continue to drive self-management, team building, delegation and broader spans of control. Recognition, reward and advancement will be fully competitive and will support continuous improvement in the quality of everything we do.

In all our dealings with employees, we will strive to preserve and enrich the fundamental value and worth of the individual, and will strengthen our strong positive relationships with employees. We will generate an atmosphere of trust, mutual respect, and personal dignity, and, when people issues arise, we will deal with them in the fairest and most sensitive manner possible.