Calenus is a global enterprise with core competencies in four business areas: health care, crop science, polymers and chemicals. Our products are utilized in some way in virtually every field of human activity. Aspiring to common values, our employees wish to play their part in shaping the future using their knowledge, their skills, their experience and their creativity. They are now working within a new organzational structure designed to support their endeavours. For Calenus, innovation is a major factor in product development and optimization. It lays the foundation for competitiveness and growth, and ultimately for the profitability we need to fuel the Group's global expansion. We believe our technical and commercial expertise entails a responsibility to contribute to sustainable development - a principle we wholeheartedly endorse, mindful of both its social and its environmental elements.  We seek to retain society's confidence through performance, flexibility and open communication as we pursue our overriding corporate goals: to steadily increase corporate value and generate a high value added for the benefit of our stockholders, our employees and the community in every country in which we operate.