Leading with transparency and integrity as foundations for a reliable and responsible industry
A responsible and ethical supply chain
Novacel ensures the credibility of its CSR commitments through a transparent, fully controlled supply chain that complies with the highest international standards. Building on a group-level double materiality assessment, we work only with evaluated partners who uphold human rights, decent working conditions, and full raw‑material traceability, ensuring ethical practices across the entire value chain.
Evaluation Framework
Novacel achieves Bronze Medal Recognition from EcoVadis, the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, evaluating over 100,000 companies across the globe. In 2025, we proudly received the Bronze Medal, positioning ourselves within the top 21% of our industry.
Sustainable Purchasing Charter
The Novacel’s Sustainable Purchasing Charter states the CSR requirements to suppliers who want to work with us including human & workers rights, environmental awareness, and non-negotiable ethical practices.
ISO Certifications
All our activities are conducted within a structured framework based on ethics, transparency, and continuous improvement, reflected in compliance with key international standards:
ISO 9001 for quality management;
ISO 14001 for environmental impact control;
ISO 45001 for risk prevention and occupational health and safety;
ISO 50001 for energy performance improvement.
We also ensure that our suppliers and partners uphold these principles and meet equivalent standards, ensuring a consistent and exemplary value chain.
Rigorous regulatory compliance
Novacel ensures full compliance with evolving regulations by designing solutions that meet all market-specific legal requirements. With a strong focus on plastics, chemicals and packaging regulations, this proactive regulatory approach enhances product reliability, reduces compliance risks, and guarantees long-term operational continuity for clients.
Plastic & Chemical
Novacel applies systematically all the applicable standards related to chemical restrictions, including REACH in Europe, California Proposition 65 in the USA, and local framework in Asian countries.
Our R&D teams continuously watch the evolution of chemical status and work on the replacement upfront, to ensure a continuous availability of our solutions to our customers. New classifications of substances about their Carcinogenic, Mutagenic and Reprotoxic (CMR) risks are carefully monitored.
Novacel is also involved in several initiatives associated with AFERA & AEPW aiming at evolving the treatment of end of life of products and product recyclability.
Packaging
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes for BtoB packaging items are progressively been implemented globally.
Novacel works closely with legal advisors, sectorial associations and their members, and Producer Responsibility Organisations (PRO) to properly implement these new mechanisms.
The European PPWR
In March 2026, the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), which aims to strengthen the circular economy and reduce the environmental impact of packaging, clarified the regulatory status of industrial process films by differentiating them from packaging.
Novacel is the only industrial player, supported by the AFERA professional association, that has held discussions with the European Commission to remove any ambiguity regarding the regulatory status of industrial process films.
We therefore have demonstrated that:
Process films play a decisive role in the environmental and economic optimisation of our customers’ industrial
processes and those of their customers.
Process films significantly reduce industrial waste. They therefore help reduce waste, consumption of resources, and the energy required for production, and consequently greenhouse gas emissions.
The official communication of the European Commission
30th March 2026, the European Commission published in the Official Journal of the European Union : “As regards adhesive films used in the production processes of goods, they can be packaging or not depending on their function. Adhesive process films can be designed to enable or facilitate the transformation of raw or intermediate materials. If such films remain on the semi-finished products until their transformation and/or assemblage into subsequent semi-finished products or final products, and act as enablers of the manufacturing cycle and address distinct technical needs of such processes, they are not packaging under Article 3 (1) point ( 1) of PPWR.”
The clarification provided by the European Commission is a significant step forward for our respective industries.
It is now up to all players in the sector to adopt appropriate terminology in the naming of their products and in their communications, both technical and commercial, to align with that of the European Commission.
To help our customers select the terminology appropriate to European regulations, we have labelled each of our films, papers, and adhesive tapes according to the uses for which they were designed:
Industrial Process items (films, tapes, papers), which are NOT packaging
OR Protective items (films, tapes, papers), which are packaging
We believe it is our responsibility, as a committed manufacturer, to actively contribute to the development of fair, operational regulatory frameworks adapted to industrial realities.
Integrity of practices and fight against interference
Novacel’s governance is grounded in integrity, fairness, and strict compliance. We protect our operations from corruption, money laundering, and anti‑competitive behavior, while safeguarding confidential and personal data to ensure a secure and ethical business environment.
Code of Conduct
Novacel’s Code of Conduct sets out the company’s values reflected in its CSR commitments. We ban all unethical behavior, including corruption and conflicts of interest. All employees receive dedicated training, and a protected whistleblowing system is available to internal and external stakeholders.
Cybersecurity
Novacel strengthens cybersecurity by continuously updating its IT infrastructure, requiring ISO 27001 certification for critical
system operators, and carefully selectingexternal data‑center locations. All employees are trained to recognize threats and follow internal procedures, with any suspicious external requests to be reported.
The company also strictly applies General Data Protection Regulation to protect personal data.
