“Our purpose was already there, it is not something we invented but we had to delve into our history, looking at the impact of what we do, the role that each of us plays within the whole..” Carolina Lopez, MolymetNos People Manager.

As Carolina says, our purpose was already there. Maybe unvoiced, it was nonetheless the essence of who we have always been as we moved from years of steady growth into a fully sustainable organization. But we wanted to go a step further, examining not only why Molymet exists but how it’s culture could be transformed into the ingredients for building a purpose that could be clearly articulated and internalized by everyone who has a stake in our business.

In 2018 this led to the co-constructing a company purpose where we began to engage all our stakeholders around the topic, listening in particular to the opinions of our employees.

First, we looked back at where we had started. Then we looked forward to the difference we want to make in the world today and the lasting legacy we want to leave for future generations.

We wanted to express this in plain language so that each employee and leader at our operations around the world could translate it into their daily actions, decisions and interactions.

After several rounds of workshops, small group discussions and interviews with our broader stakeholder groups, we voiced our purpose like this:”To create value for the evolution of humanity, through products developed by people who think about the well-being of the planet.”

This purpose statement echoes the voices and thoughts of all our employees. Everyone made a contribution to defining what characterizes us and what sets us apart. Most of all, our purpose expresses our lived belief that we want to be a company that makes a lasting difference over time.