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Our products deliver a host of sustainable value propositions, and with our Design for Environment standards, we will continue to develop even more: Our operations are highly efficient, and we have made steady progress in reducing our already low emissions.
Our commitment to our employees includes providing best in class training to help them develop.
A blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.
In this year’s report, we show how the five focus areas from our GreenMT strategy relate to the SDGs.
On these pages, we highlight six of the SDGs and their related targets where we believe we can have the greatest impact with each strategic topic.
Please see the pages of this report for more details.
Our net sales were $$2.7 billion in 2017, an increase of 8 percent.
Global market conditions were favorable during marketing programs, our innovative product portfolio, and investments in our field resources.
Our business is geographically diversified, with net sales in Europe, 38 percent from North and South America, and 31 percent from Asia and other countries.
We have recently completed new facility projects in China, Switzerland, and the United States, and continue working on a new facility in the United Kingdom.
Building these facilities allows us to meet growing demand while also improving our operational efficiency.
CO When we initiated our GreenMT program a decade ago, we focused on managing our own operations sustainably and with a minimal environmental impact.
We committed to a public goal of reducing our carbon footprint by the end of with 2010, measured by relative CO2 emissions per net sales.
We are proud to have reached this target ahead of schedule, due to many hundreds of individual projects at all units across the Group.
Today, our carbon intensity is much smaller compared to that of other global companies.
We nonetheless believe we can continuously improve, and have set ourselves further ambitious targets.
We have set two strategic goals relating to this topic: We aim for a further reduction against our original target by committing to a by the end of 2025 compared with 2010.
We also seek to increase the percentage of energy we consume from renewable sources.
These GreenMT goals are managed by the Corporate Sustainability team.
From million U.S. dollars net sales to 21.3 tons, a reduction of almost 25 percent.
We restated CO2 emissions data for prior years due to minor corrections in our own data.
Detailed Overview of Energy Consumption and Emissions We report our detailed energy consumption and emissions below.
We report Scope emissions according to the location-based method in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, and engage with our suppliers to report market-based emission factors.
We will disclose such emissions when the data quality meets the requirements set forth by the GHG Protocol.
tons Our data reflects that we continue to grow organically and by acquisitions.
We have built larger and more efficient factories in China, Switzerland, and the United States each of which began operations in 2018.
Furthermore, acquired companies typically do not initially demonstrate the same energy efficiency that we have come to expect from our existing facilities.
We support our acquired companies and their sites in improving their carbon efficiency.
Renewable Energy Most of our renewable energy consumption relates to stationary energy consumption, primarily the operation, heating, and cooling of our various facilities.
In total these types of energy consumption make up about about 17 percent comes from renewable sources.
We seek to increase the amount of energy consumed from renewable sources, which is a new goal for the company.
Energy by Source be exploring initiatives to determine how best to accomplish this, including initiatives related to renewable energy supply and investment in solar installations.
Sustainability Initiatives We have established continuous improvement programs through certified ISO environmental management systems in most of our key facilities.
Corporate Sustainability oversees progress on projects and initiatives undertaken in our global units.
Typical energy projects would relate to vehicle choice, electricity consumption, and facility heating and cooling.
Logistics is an important area for us because of the widespread locations of our operations and sales and service organizations.
In addition, we have implemented fuel efficiency measures including eliminating unnecessary travel and transportation, encouraging fuel-saving driving and routing, ensuring well-adapted loading, and undertaking proper vehicle maintenance.
Air travel is a necessity because of the global reach of our organization.
Water, Waste, and Other Emissions Compared to other industrial companies, we have relatively low impact in regards to water, waste, and other emissions.
The increase in our hazardous waste reflects that certain sites do not dispose of waste on an annual basis, but only periodically.
Certain of our sites changed their waste disposal procedures, moving from landfill to incineration.
We have been successful in managing our own operations sustainably and with minimal environmental impact.
When we consider our significant installed base of weighing instruments, which we believe is one of the largest in the world, we can have a potentially greater impact now on our customers’ sustainability performance.
We have set two strategic goals relating to this topic.
Firstly, to emphasize and expand the sustainable features of our current portfolio of products, and secondly to develop additional green value propositions in our new products and services by following our Design for Environment Program.
Our Global Head of Product Lifecycle Management oversees the Design for Environment program.
The individual business units manage initiatives relating to their specific products and services.
Reduced Emissions: PI Instruments Help Reduce Food Waste As much as one third of the food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted every year.
It is important for our customers to understand and leverage the sustainable features of our current products and services, even as we expand these features.
Sustainable features include the use of low impact materials in the manufacture of our products, their relative energy efficiency, sustainable packaging, design for uptime and serviceability, including remote diagnostics and predictive diagnostics, applications to enhance customers’ productivity and efficiency, and ove...
Good Measuring Practices Our Good Measuring Practices framework is one example of our approach to helping our customers to be sustainable.
Through appropriate equipment selection, correct installation, regular testing and maintenance, and finally, proper training of users, Good Measurement Practices help customers ensure consistent accuracy of measurement processes.
This enables customers to improve their own sustainability profile, for example, by helping them reduce waste resulting from out-of-specification results.
As another example of how we are helping our customers to be sustainable, we continue to educate the professional community about how to improve food safety, quality, and operational efficiency.
Optimize initial lifetime about sustainable operations Here is one recent example from our product development team in China.
They followed the Design for Environment process in designing our Portable Scale BPA121.
In so doing, they addressed battery control, LED brightness, indicators, and other power-related features.
As a result, the new product consumes predecessor.
Proper packaging is crucial to ensure that our products arrive safely and in optimal condition at our customers’ locations around the world.
Product Compliance We ensure that our products enter the market in a responsible and safe manner.
We comply with, or exceed, legal requirements with a global approach to product compliance.
We validate that our new products address relevant industry, regulatory, and safety standards within the technical solution concepts of our Design for Compliance approach.
Our product labeling and product operation manuals meet or exceed all information requirements for safe operation, material content, safe use and servicing, and end-of-life handling.
In the unlikely situation that a problem is detected after customer delivery, we seek to resolve the issue quickly, responsibly, and effectively.
Design for Environment: Rainin Uses Sustainable Packaging Rainin’s Green-Pak™ SpaceSaver tip packaging uses up to less plastic waste compared with the prior tip packaging.
We eliminated unnecessary shrink wrap and packaging material in product containers.
Product boxes are made of the SpaceSaver are made from recycled water bottles (PET).
The shipping containers themselves are made of recycled material.
Rainin Tip Packaging We seek to reduce the environmental impact of our products at the end of their lifecycle.
With our Old Product Replacement Initiative (OPRI), we seek to replace products that have been in service for many years, allowing customers to upgrade to new, more energy efficient models with enhanced features.
Our Code of Conduct is applicable to all units, and employees are trained on this annually.
Given the significant scope of our several-thousand suppliers, we realize we can have a potentially greater impact on our suppliers’ sustainability performance.
Firstly, to drive improvement across our supply chain in labor practices, human rights, business ethics, and related areas; and secondly to engage with key suppliers to enhance their economic, environmental, and social performance.
Our Head of Global Sourcing and Procurement oversees our Supplier Management Program and Preferred Supplier Assessments.
Our supply chain is globally diversified, complex, and represented by more than 3,500 suppliers.
The majority of our suppliers are located close to our major production facilities in China, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States.
We are a member of the Responsible Business Alliance, and provide information on its Risk Readiness Assessment online platform.
All our manufacturing facilities have been subject to third-party audits, so-called Sedex Member Ethical Trade Audits (SMETA).
We also participate in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), through which we provide data on our environmental performance.
Supplier Management Program We subject all potential new suppliers to a thorough screening audit, which also covers environmental, social, and governance topics.
We expect our suppliers to respect their workers’ rights to freedom of association, thirdparty consultation, and collective bargaining where provided by law.
See our Statement on Slavery, Human Trafficking, and Transparency in the Supply Chain at www.mt.com/businesspartner.
This means we are not at risk regarding use of child labor or forced or compulsory labor.
For the same reasons, we understand our suppliers’ facilities are also generally not at risk regarding child labor or forced or compulsory labor.
To help ensure ongoing compliance, we audit the performance of key suppliers annually as described below.
Conflict Minerals Policy and Annual Reporting We seek to understand the origin of the materials that go into our products and the social and environmental impacts their sourcing has.
Accordingly, we take seriously the requirements of Rule conflict minerals reporting.
Supplier Assessment and Engagement As part of our supplier assessment program, we perform annual assessments of more than 40 percent of our supplier spending.
Starting in in-person Supplier Day, involving presentations, workshops, and sharing best practices.
These awards celebrate outstanding performance in four categories: innovation, operational excellence, global partnership, and sustainability.
We want to continue to provide an attractive work environment and keep our employees fully engaged.
We have set two strategic goals relating to this topic: to leverage and improve our employment conditions via our Vision and Values and our high-performance culture, and to foster an ever-safer workplace for all employees.
The individual business units manage the relevant HR initiatives in their local units.
The Board of Directors regularly reviews the company’s performance on these topics.
Our corporate values directly support us in our pursuit of the GreenMT goals.
By maintaining high quality standards and finding innovative approaches, we are able to continuously improve our performance, even when we are starting from a world-leading level.
Attracting Employees We have been steadily growing our workforce, which numbered as compared with 15,400 last year.
Typically, we hire at least and their direct reports) locally, i.e. from the country where the business unit is located.
In Europe, we have a number of countries with greater percentages of part-time employees in line with local practices.
Our workforce is very diverse, reflecting the global diversity of our business.