ChemScore report card 2025

SABIC

Total Score
38/100

About the company

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) is a Saudi Arabian multinational chemical manufacturing company. The company is part of the state-owned petroleum and natural gas company Saudi Aramco, which owns 70% of its shares. SABIC manufactures petrochemicals, chemicals, industrial polymers, fertilizers, and metals.
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Transparency
14 out of 25 points
Action points
  • Start disclosing revenue connected to hazardous chemicals
  • Include more hazard classes when the company reports the volumes of hazardous substances leaving the facilities as emissions and report it on a more detailed level, substance by substance
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Phase-out of persistent chemicals
8 out of 25 points
Action points
  • Start reporting and/or limit the share of revenue from persistent chemicals considerably
  • Stop buying/importing persistent chemicals and set up a timed phase-out plan
  • Stop selling persistent chemicals and set up a timed phase-out plan
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Product portfolio
12 out of 25 points
Number of registered hazardous chemicals 24
Number of chemicals on the EU’s Candidate List 6
Number of chemicals on the EU’s Authorisation List and/or POP substances 2
Number of persistent chemicals 1
Product portfolio transparency 100%
Action points
  • Reduce the number of hazardous substances the company is using, producing and placing on the market
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Safer solutions
4 out of 25 points
Action points
  • Either start reporting the company’s share of safer solutions or increase it substantially. At a minimum, REACH candidate list substances must be excluded from such products
  • Publicly commit not to develop or market new products containing hazardous substances. At a minimum, REACH candidate list substances must be excluded from such products
  • Publicly commit to increasing the share of sales of safer solutions

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Company facts
Founded
1976
Headquarters
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Revenue
37.3 billion USD
ISIN
SA0007879121
Category
Basic
Other
Plastic / Rubber / Fibres
All years
Year Rank Total score
2025 3 / 40 38 / 100
2024 2 / 51 29 / 48
2023 1 / 50 31 / 48
2022 12 / 54 18 / 48
2021 22 / 50 13 / 48
2020 23 / 35 12 / 48