Meet legal, regulatory, statutory and customer requirements applicable to quality, food safety, environment and safety;
• produce safe, quality and authentic products, asking a commitment to the continuous improvement of the culture of safety and quality of food;
• ensure skills relating to food safety;
• communicate effectively internally and along the production chain food safety aspects necessary to guarantee a healthy product for our customers;
• establish continuous improvement of processes, products and services;
• promote environmental protection, with actions towards the prevention of pollution and environmental impacts;
• continuously search for profitability, competitiveness with sustainability;
• define objectives and goals supported by this policy;
• promote the satisfaction of interested parties such as customers, shareholders, employees, suppliers and the community.

The companies of the Usina Sao Francisco Group are committed to the conservation of biodiversity and ethical trade in the productive areas of their management and management, seeking, whenever possible, to demonstrate and transfer this knowledge to their partners and suppliers.
Companies have always worked to expand biodiversity in their production and conservation areas. A fact proven in an extensive study carried out by  satellite monitoring in its areas, confirming that all conservation management practices adopted function as a true generator of biodiversity.

Thus, the companies of the Usina Sao Francisco Group maintain their mission of exploring the potential of sugar cane in their areas and that of their partners, always adopting the best consolidated and recognized conservation management practices” and thus ensuring the sustainable use of environmental resources. , in compliance with environmental and land law legislation, preserving the rights and interests of all for a more harmonious socioeconomic sustainability. These are pillars for the preservation of biodiversity and ethical trade:
• 1- Biodiversity conservation- Preserve ecosystems and promote practices that conserve and restore biodiversity.
• 2- Sustainable Use – Practices that guarantee the long-term functions of ecosystems and limit negative environmental impacts.
• 3- Fair and equitable sharing of benefits – The use of biodiversity and traditional knowledge recognizes rights, promotes dialogue and allows fair remuneration.
• 4- Socioeconomic sustainability – Adoption of quality management and financial practices that are sustainable and socially acceptable.
• 5- Legal compliance – Respect for all relevant international, national and local standards.
• 6- Respect for human and ethnic rights – Take into account human rights, working conditions and the rights of indigenous and local communities.
• 7- Clarity on land ownership – Respect rights over land and its natural resources.

Self-sufficient in the production of electrical energy from the combustion of sugarcane bagasse.
The integration of agronomic techniques promoted in our production system results in a relevant contribution to water resources in agricultural areas. Permanently covering the soil in sugarcane fields with straw or cover crops during rotation reduces solar incidence and water loss through evaporation, in addition to increasing water retention and infiltration capacities in the soil through the accumulation of organic matter. and by the reconstitution of its active biostructure.
The water used in the industrial process and for human consumption comes from deep artesian wells duly granted by DAEE and registered with ANVISA.
In 1986, the São Francisco Group began a reforestation program with native Brazilian trees. The main objectives of the project are the creation of islands of biodiversity integrated into cultivation areas, the protection of water resources and the creation of conditions for the safe multiplication of wildlife.
The Balbo Economic Group was a pioneer and negotiated carbon credits in 2002, when its atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases generated in the process are fully offset in the form of carbon credits through the use of renewable fuel and generation of electrical energy, creating credits of carbon.
A pioneer in cutting raw sugarcane, currently 100% of the cultivated areas are harvested without burning. At the same time, we began the requalification and relocation of field employees, who began to work in the management of agricultural areas and in other roles such as machine operators, drivers, automotive mechanics and others.
• We were recognized by the World Economic Forum as one of the 16 “Champions of Sustainability” companies in 2011.
• In 2020, the RENOVABIO Program (National Biofuels Policy) recognized the Plants of the Balbo Economic Group Usina São Francisco as producers of Biofuels with the RENOVABIO Certification, granted by the ANP (National Petroleum Agency ). Among all the certified plants that produce ethanol from sugar cane, Usina São Francisco obtained the best rating in energy efficiency.
• The Balbo Economic Group demonstrates a focus on sustainability by ensuring the integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of its activities, having been involved with some of the most relevant initiatives in this regard:
• We were the first large enterprise to obtain organic certification for sugar and alcohol production in Brazil and in the world;
• We maintain Fair Trade certifications in Fair for Life standards (Ecocert / Ecosocial (IBD), Fair Trade USA (SCF), which establish rigorous standards of socio-environmental development and fair trade, directly benefiting employees and the local community through from the Fair Trade fund managed by an elected, employee-only committee.
• We are effective members and certified by the UEBT (Union for Ethical Biotrade), assuming commitments to sustainable supply and Ethical Trade for raw materials originating from biodiversity and the conservation of faunal biodiversity in our productive areas;
• São Francisco also hold the BONSUCRO certification, for sustainable production of sugarcane, sugar and ethanol;