So who are we?
DSM is a global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company with unique capabilities across the fields of health, nutrition, and materials.
Your potential colleagues create innovative ingredients and applications that are helping to address some of the world’s most pressing issues. Think climate change, energy consumption and the need for a balanced food supply across the globe.
Our end markets are as varied as the world around us. Whatever your discipline, and whether you’re looking to kick-start your career or just looking for a change in direction, DSM offers plenty of opportunity. You will be able to use your creativity and skills to help our customers – and everyday consumers – achieve more. Maybe you will build lighter vehicles. Create cleaner industrial processes. Produce plastics from plants, or lead the fight against obesity and malnutrition.
Cutting-edge science
Join DSM and you could be contributing to the great work we are doing across the three fields of Health, Nutrition and Materials:
- Health – Many of the world’s top selling medicines contain ingredients developed and produced by DSM. For instance, DSM Anti-Infectives is the leading global manufacturer of penicillin derivatives. And DSM is a front-runner in biomedical materials.
- Nutrition – DSM is the world’s largest producer of vitamins and carotenoids. We’re also a leading supplier of value-added (and increasingly non-chemical) ingredients for the food and beverage industries.
- Materials – DSM is a leading global supplier of polyamides. These are used in technical components for industries such as electrics and electronics, automotive, engineering and packaging. We also invented Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™. And we’re an important producer of resins used in everything from sewer pipes to luxury cars.
Put it all together and you have a unique health, nutrition and materials company with annual sales of around €9 billion, locations in more than 50 countries and approximately 22,000 employees worldwide. Royal DSM N.V. ordinary shares are listed on NYSE Euronext.
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The path of progress
We have a history of reinventing ourselves. Now we’re doing it again.
Few companies have undergone as many successful transformations as Royal DSM N.V. Founded in 1902 by the Dutch State as a coal mining company, DSM was soon converting the coal from the mines into coke. This yielded large amounts of coke oven gas, which DSM managed to convert into ammonia, a key raw material for nitrogenous fertilizers.
Innovation and diversification
DSM’s knack for diversifying continued after World War II, providing industrial chemicals and raw materials for synthetic fibers and yarns. By 1970, chemicals and fertilizers were the company’s primary business. Then DSM moved into petrochemicals. It also began to focus on innovation projects of the kind that resulted in Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™. DSM was privatized in 1989.
In the 1990s, DSM switched to a more market-focused R&D operation. This enabled the company to focus increasingly on developing value-adding processes and products for the pharmaceutical and food industries, and performance materials for the automotive and transport industry and the electrical and electronics sector.
Focus on health, nutrition and materials
In 2000 DSM began another transformation. This involved a shift from petrochemicals towards Life Sciences and Materials Sciences that combine unique abilities across health, nutrition and materials.
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A cross-pollinator for innovation
Join DSM today and you’ll be joining a progressive company that combines unique abilities in health, nutrition and materials. We are a cross-pollinator for innovative products, applications and solutions based on the principles of People, Planet, Profit.
Today’s DSM is a very different company than the DSM of 2000. Back then, we were predominantly a traditional ‘chemical company’ with some performance materials and life science businesses.
Sustainable and profitable growth
Fast forward to today and the story couldn’t be more different. Our new Life Sciences and Materials Sciences core offers unique opportunities to address key global societal trends and needs – Global Shifts, Climate and Energy and Health and Wellness – that are affecting economies, people and markets in different and fundamental ways. Our current strategy, ‘DSM in Motion: driving focused growth,’ lays out our ambitions and goals up to 2015. It marks the shift from an era of getting into shape (amid some very tough market conditions) to a strategy of maximizing the sustainable and profitable growth of ‘the new DSM’.
Four growth drivers
Our ambition is to use four so-called ‘growth drivers’ – High Growth Economies, Innovation, Sustainability and Acquisitions and Partnerships – to make a difference. At the same time we aim to maximize the potential of all four growth drivers to mutually reinforce each other.
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Putting our expertise to good use
We support good causes by partnering with organizations that complement our expertise in health, nutrition and materials – from famine relief to Olympic gold.
U.N. World Food Programme
DSM is a committed supporter of the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP), the largest provider of food aid to the world’s hungry. DSM provides technical and scientific expertise, high nutrient products and financial assistance to improve the WFP food basket through the addition of essential micronutrients. Working together, DSM and WFP are making a difference to millions of people.
SIGHT AND LIFE
SIGHT AND LIFE is a DSM humanitarian initiative covering a wide range of activities. In collaboration with global and local partners, as well as leading universities, SIGHT AND LIFE encourages partnerships, the exchange of scientific information and the creation of networks to ensure a sustainable and significant improvement in human nutrition and health.
Nutrition Improvement Program
DSM Nutritional Products’ Nutrition Improvement Program aims to banish hidden hunger caused by a deficiency of micronutrients. We provide technical and scientific assistance to programs in developing countries dedicated to supplementing normal diets and fortifying staple foods with vitamins and minerals.
