In the 2000s, in response to the massive increase in illicit trade and industrial counterfeiting, SICPA developed integrated product authentication and traceability solutions for governments and brand owners. These sophisticated solutions combine the material security of inks with the digital security of tracking and tracing technologies. It is these solutions that today lie at the heart of SICPAGSS Morocco’s expertise.
An integrated CSR approach
The success of SICPA’s activities in Morocco takes full account of the environment and of the communities in which the company operates. SICPAGSS Morocco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy is fully aligned with that of the SICPA Group, which constantly seeks, at international level, to develop new environmentally friendly products, such as “green inks” or “eco-design” for equipment and technologies. In addition, the ink production facilities comply with environmental standards, use renewable energy, minimise water consumption and are energy-efficient. Finally, SICPA is involved in various environmental projects such as reforestation in Brazil and Colombia, or biodiversity in Switzerland.
In Morocco, SICPAGSS’s CSR is based on a voluntary approach and applies the principles of sustainable development. Our approach requires responsible behaviour towards economic players, the environment and society. For SICPAGSS Morocco, becoming socially responsible means integrating social and environmental issues into the day-to-day management of the company’s activities and into its interactions with external stakeholders.
Targeted social initiatives
SICPAGSS Morocco has focused its social commitment on sponsoring non-profit or public-interest associations working in the field of education, by helping disadvantaged populations to access education. SICPAGSS Morocco also organises blood donation drives with its staff. The company also benefits from the support of employees’ voluntary initiatives in the fields of education and environmental protection. Several activities have thus been carried out with various players in the local social fabric.
Agreement with the Moroccan Student Foundation
In 2015, an agreement was signed between SICPAGSS Morocco and the Fondation Marocaine de l’Étudiant (FME – Moroccan Student Foundation) to encourage deserving and underprivileged baccalaureate holders from the Kingdom of Morocco’s Social Protection Institutions (EPS) to pursue higher education. It also works to foster the creation of an environment suited to their academic and professional development.
Under this agreement, SICPAGSS Morocco has sponsored two scholarship holders for a period of five years and has undertaken to support the FME’s work through the involvement of its managers in the professional mentoring of scholarship holders. Ten of its staff have already answered the call by coaching ten students.
“Blood donation” drive
For the past three years, SICPAGSS Morocco has organised an annual blood donation campaign in partnership with the National Blood Transfusion Centre. The aim of this operation is to help collect as many units of blood as possible in order to help reduce the alarming shortage Morocco is facing.
All of these activities bear witness to SICPAGSS Morocco’s involvement and commitment to the well-being of society as a whole.