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The ongoing sustainability movement has become a hot topic in the business world and within broader society. Issues such as renewable resources, waste management and working conditions have become omnipresent in the media. As a result, chemical companies feel the growing concern of customers, nongovernmental organizations and regulators to ensure sustainable operations beyond the boundaries of the corporate entity. In response to continuously growing stakeholder pressures, leading chemical firms have increasingly taken individual and joint measures to augment the status quo of ecologic and social sustainability in their supply chains. Yet the agendas of prominent industry conferences indicate that chemical companies are particularly concerned with economic aspects, namely the minimization of costs. We take this opportunity to assess the current state of sustainability in chemical supply chains and to suggest auspicious roads into the future.