Our mission and values
As one of the world’s leading mineral fertilizer producers, PhosAgro assumes a special responsibility for global food security. We offer high-quality, eco-efficient fertilizers, supply them and train farmers how to apply them in the most sustainable manner.
Caring for Earth fertility for prosperous lives
Our mission
OUR vision
OUR values
Our goals are ambitious as we strive for professional excellence and continuous self-improvement
As strong team players, we look to ensure smooth cooperation of all our business units
Everyone at PhosAgro is a qualified professional in what they do
We always honour our obligations and are a reliable partner
Development is ongoing at PhosAgro, with every procedure relentlessly improved and refined
We promote and share a safety culture within the Company to ensure safe working conditions
We support human integrity, fostering moral standards and ethics, spiritual values, dedication at work, and respect for family values
Navigator on UN SDGs
17 UN SDGs are the most important benchmark in our making both strategic and day-to-day management decisions. Committed to the Company’s mission and values, which are underpinned by our Strategy to 2025, we look to contribute to, and monitor the progress against, the targets of our eleven priority UN SDGs.
The Company is among the most highly-engaged participants of the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. The UN first named PhosAgro a Global Compact LEAD company in 2019.
Our key programmes:
- Product development programme to 2030;
- Improvement of the product mix;
- Programme to develop digital services for farmers.
For more information, see pages Strategy, Customers and product management, Research and education.
Our key programmes:
- Safety culture improvement programme;
- Social benefits and employee guarantees;
- Minimising pollutant emissions per unit of output.
For more information, see pages People development, Industrial safety, Environmental review.
Our key programmes:
- Developing PhosAgro School and DROZD projects;
- Cooperation with universities and Russian and international R&D centres;
- Promoting retraining and professional development.
For more information, see pages Research and education, People development, Industrial safety, Contributing to local communities.
Our key programmes:
- Water Strategy;
- Participation in international initiatives (the CEO Water Mandate and Water Resilience Coalition) ;
- Water Use Optimisation Programme at the Cherepovets site of Apatit.
For more information, see page Environmental review.
Our key programmes:
- Comprehensive production development programme;
- Incentives and rewards system;
- Green procurement programme and ESG assessment of suppliers;
- Our Favourite Cities programme;
- Safety culture improvement programme.
For more information, see pages Strategy, People development, Industrial safety, Contributing to local communities.
Our key programmes:
- Logistics infrastructure development programme;
- Our Favourite Cities programme;
- Process Mining development.
For more information, see pages Strategy, Supply chain, Contributing to local communities.
Our key programmes:
- Our Favourite Cities programme;
- Promoting entrepreneurship.
For more information, see page Contributing to local communities.
Our key programmes:
- Programme to promote circular economy elements, including the use of phosphogypsum in farming and other industries;
- Reduction of natural gas consumption in production processes;
- As part of its Water Strategy, the Company is running initiatives to boost water use efficiency and reduce water consumption and waste water discharge;
- Green procurement programme and ESG assessment of suppliers;
- Construction of a heat and power plant at the Volkhov site.
For more information, see pages Strategy, Research and education, Supply chain, Environmental review.
Our key programmes:
- Energy Efficiency Programme;
- Ongoing carbon farm project in the Vologda region;
- Use of green electricity to make agrochemical products;
- Construction of a heat and power plant at the Volkhov site;
- Green procurement programme and ESG assessment of suppliers;
- Application improvement.
For more information, see pages Strategy, Research and education, Supply chain, Environmental review.
Our key programmes:
- Comprehensive programmes to assess and preserve biodiversity at the Cherepovets site and the Volkhov and Kirovsk branches of Apatit;
- Partnership with UN FAO in advancing sustainable farming;
- Carbon farm project in the Vologda Region run jointly with the Russian Academy of Sciences to arrange, among other things, for the regional monitoring of GHG emissions.
For more information, see pages Strategy, Research and education, Environmental review.
Our key programmes:
- Cooperation with universities and Russian and international R&D centres;
- Collaboration with UN organisations (FAO, UNESCO, IUPAC);
- Driving growth of sales markets;
- Joining efforts with the governments and municipal authorities in the Russian regions in which the Company operates.
For more information, see pages Customers and product management, Research and education, Contributing to local communities.