RSPO Certified
LG Household & Health Care's two factories, in Ulsan and Onsan, South Korea, have received certifications from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an international certification body. This significant step elevates LG Household & Health Care to equal global companies like Unilever and Basf.
The RSPO is an international environmental organization established in 2003 to stop environment destruction resulting from the reckless production of palm oil, which is the natural ingredient of surfactant used to make shampoo and detergents, and to protect the palm oil-producing habitats.
While companies like Unilever and Basf have received RSPO certification for some time now, LG Household & Health Care is the first Korean company to do so.
LG Household & Health Care started to build a system for producing surfactants, which use eco-friendly palm oil, from 2013 in its Ulsan and Onsan factories as the demands for RSPO-certified products increased recently in Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
It completed a system to use and manufacture the raw materials of palm oil that complies with RSPO Segregation requirements in every aspect of the process, from from raw material storage, production, product storage to shipment.
LG Household & Health Care plans to reinforce its overseas raw material business by exporting surfactant from its RSPO-certified palm oil.