Sesame for a healthier planet

Our Vision

Sesame for a healthier planet

The spirit of a “healthier planet” governs our decisions and activities in all business areas. We believe that each of us as global citizens have an individual and collective duty to build a better world and that as a Company we can act responsibly, contribute positively, and generate value for all stakeholders.

We were founded as “Sesame Coordinators” to cultivate the development of a modern industry that would open & extend the value of sesame – as a crop, as a food, and as a livelihood.

Today, we remain committed to be the industry leader, innovator, and sustainer and to purposefully employ sesame to advance a healthier environment, a healthier population, and a healthier community – collectively, a healthier planet.

To advance the health of our planet through sustainable sesame production & consumption

Our Mission

To advance the health of our planet through sustainable sesame production & consumption.

Our mission is to sustainably grow sesame production & consumption to advance: 

  • Environmental health - through the efficient utilization of resources, inherent soil building properties, and promising carbon sequestration efficacy

  • Human health – through the delivery of positive nutrition in the form of high-quality fats, plant-based protein, and an array of vitamins, minerals, & antioxidants

  • Social health – through the generation of economic value & social benefits for all stakeholders - growers, customers, supply chain partners, employees, and the communities in which we all reside

We will do this by both strengthening and leveraging our own integration to shorten the traceable supply chain (seed to consumer) while also engaging in related endeavors that extend into new markets or new applications that advance our stated purpose.

Integrity, Innovation, Colloboration & Accountability

 

Our Core Values

Integrity, innovation, collaboration, & accountability

Our core values are integrity, innovation, collaboration, and accountability – and our teams and employees will take purposeful & responsible action to achieve our mission. 

Throughout all our activities, we will operate with honesty & integrity; we will strive to bring innovative & sustainable solutions to problems - both big and small; we will pursue collaboration, both internally & externally, to advance our mission, and we will hold ourselves and each other accountable – to be our best.

Together, we will strive to create sustainable value that can be delivered to all stakeholders - growers, customers, supply chain partners, consumers, employees, and our greater communities – to further our mission & deliver our vision of a healthier planet.

We have identified the following five items as the core areas of our sustainable value expression.

  • We will aim to build a sustainable & traceable supply chain that has a responsible environmental and social impact across all our businesses. We take a leading role in Sesame industry to solve human rights, labor rights and environmental issues in the supply chain. We will monitor the suppliers and take corrective actions if the following violations are found.

    • Forced Labor

    • Child Labor

    • Safe and Healthy Working Environment

    • Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

    • Discrimination

    • Abuse and Harassment

    • Working Hours

    • Suitable Remuneration

    • Anti-Corruption

    • Environment

    • Information Disclosure

    We follow the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of Life on Land and Responsible Consumption and Production.

  • Good for soil, Good for environment

    Sesame is, by nature, a sustainable product as a crop. We maximize the potentials of Sesame crops through our growers’ activities in following areas for reducing environmental impacts and contribution to our grower network.

    • Carbon sequestration and soil activation

    • Lower input alternative to traditional crops

    • Adaptability to climate change with drought tolerance

    • Wildlife conservation as a wildlife feed

    • Alternative fuel resource such as biodiesel

    We follow the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of Life on Land, Climate Actions.

  • Good for human health

    We promote human health through delivery of our Sesame products to customers and consumers. Sesame is traditionally known as a healthy food in following areas, we will pursue opportunity expansion of Sesame application to foods, ingredient uses and product developments.

    • Healthy fats

    • Plant based protein

    • B vitamins

    • Minerals

    • Fiber

    • Antioxidants (sesamin, sesamolin etc)

    We follow the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of Good Health and Well-being.

  • Reducing environmental impacts

    We focus on reducing environmental impacts through our processing operation. Operational improvement takes place on site with periodical review processes which leads to continuous corrective actions in following areas.

    • Reduction of waste

    • Reduction of resource usage

    • Optimization of operational equipment

    • Utilization of Renewable Energy

    • Utilization of Recyclable packaging materials

    We follow the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of Responsible Consumption and Production.

  • Digital transformation of our business

    We will transform ourselves through digitalization to pursue business optimization and employees’ flexibilities with higher efficiency. We will keep searching for new opportunities using digital technology to be implemented into any of our business areas.

    • Remote working, Hybrid working style

    • Workflow standardization based on a cloud-based ERP, digital document storage, & communication platforms

    • Implementation of a digital platform that connects stakeholders in the supply chain to enhance communication and transactional efficiency

    We follow the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of Decent Work and Economic Growth.