// Taking Responsibility for a Better Future ///
Our products make an important contribution to global health. By this fact alone, we consider it our duty to align our business activities with a more sustainable future.
Our actions have always been shaped by our strong regional roots and our family-oriented corporate culture. With this in mind, Bausch+Ströbel aims to play a pioneering role in fostering social awareness, creating added value for society, and establishing regional value chains.
Our Vision of Sustainability
Taking on responsibility has always been one of the guiding principles of our company management. From the very beginning, over 50 years ago, when the company was founded with the idea of building a machine for the quick, safe, and efficient filling of medical substances into easy-to-handle containers, responsibility has been at the core of the company's philosophy. As a family business, we have consistently embraced a cross-generational approach to our thinking and actions.
Sustainability is, therefore, an integral part of our long-term corporate strategy, exemplifying our commitment to people, the environment, and society. In our pursuit of sustainability, we collaborate with the pharmaceutical sector to enhance global access to high-quality medicines for all. This sense of responsibility is the moral compass that has guided us to this day. It is the driving force behind our innovations, serving as a catalyst for our research and development efforts, an essential element of our corporate DNA, and is also reflected in our Sustainability Management Policy.
Sustainability is, therefore, an integral part of our long-term corporate strategy, exemplifying our commitment to people, the environment, and society. In our pursuit of sustainability, we collaborate with the pharmaceutical sector to enhance global access to high-quality medicines for all. This sense of responsibility is the moral compass that has guided us to this day. It is the driving force behind our innovations, serving as a catalyst for our research and development efforts, an essential element of our corporate DNA, and is also reflected in our Sustainability Management Policy.
Our Sustainability Mission
Recycling, climate-neutral energy supply, and water conservation are the key milestones on our journey toward greater sustainability. The social aspects of sustainability are firmly anchored in our employee development strategy, our recruiting process, and our "B+S-Step" remuneration system.
Our goal is to systematically optimize every single one of our processes for sustainability, an ambitious and challenging undertaking. For us, this is only viable pathway to sustainable success – one where our actions are shaped by a high level of responsibility towards preserving the quality of life on our planet, both for the current generation and the generations that follow.
Our goal is to systematically optimize every single one of our processes for sustainability, an ambitious and challenging undertaking. For us, this is only viable pathway to sustainable success – one where our actions are shaped by a high level of responsibility towards preserving the quality of life on our planet, both for the current generation and the generations that follow.
Sustainability at our Ilshofen Facility
 | Parking area without sealed asphalt surface Our parking area is surfaced with water-permeable paving materials and includes natural drainage channels between the rows of parking spaces to facilitate the flow of rainwater |
 | Covered parking bays equipped with solar panels |
 | EV (electrical vehicle) charging stations for our employees |
 | Green roofs |
 | Solar panels on buildings |
 | Electroplating wastewater |
Our Sustainability Policy
At Bausch+Ströbel, our core focus revolves around five key pillars: Future, Transparency, Nature, Society and Region. Our objective is to create products and deliver our services in an environmentally responsible and eco-friendly manner.
Our business practices are firmly grounded in the principle of identifying and evaluating both present and foreseeable risks and opportunities, including those that may arise in the future. This approach enables us to effectively safeguard the environment and society while maximizing our potential for sustainable growth. We aspire to take an active role in shaping our future, actively engaging our employees and partners in this endeavor.
We provide regular, comprehensive, and transparent reports on the progress of our sustainability initiatives within our company. These reports include not only progress updates; they also outline the challenges we still face, our objectives, and the steps we need to take to attain these targets. We welcome open dialog with all social groups, share sustainability-related information with the public, and collaborate closely with authorities, associations, and other institutions.
As a long-standing family-oriented company deeply rooted in the Hohenlohe region, we embrace our responsibility for providing safe and fairly paid jobs. We are committed to working on an ongoing basis with our employees, works councils, regional authorities, associations and local institutions to cultivate an enriching environment that fosters safety, continuity, and respect for human dignity. This commitment applies equally to all regions and locations where the Bausch+Ströbel Group operates through its own facilities.
As a globally active company, we hold a special responsibility for the preservation of the natural environment and the efficient utilization of valuable resources. For this reason, we are committed to working in support of UN Agenda 2030. Our objective is to reduce our environmental footprint and safeguard ecosystems, all while preserving biological diversity. A central focus of our efforts is continuously enhancing the sustainability of our products, services, and processes. We strive to use natural resources, raw materials and energy as efficiently as possible while considering the entire value chain, aiming to recycle materials to the greatest extent feasible. We actively engage our employees, suppliers, and customers in this ongoing process.
Our Sustainability Mission Statement
Responsible management as a strategic benchmark:
Our Sustainability Mission Statement lies at the heart of our corporate strategy, aligning our sustainable management goals with the principles of corporate responsibility. Our Sustainability Management Policy is guided by the following motives:
- By taking an integrated approach, we aim to expand the focus areas of our strategic program to include social and ecological issues.
- We use holistic trend analysis to identify opportunities and assess risks as the basis for our forward-looking sustainability strategy.
- We maintain a sharp focus on all relevant stakeholders, engaging in active dialog in various formats, and demonstrating how we are putting what we learn into practice.
- We also consider ecological, economic, and social considerations in our business decisions, transparently and credibly communicating our progress and challenges we face.
- We are steadfastly committed to implementing and reinforcing our sustainability-driven corporate values, including reliability, innovation, integrity, compliance, employer attractiveness, building and maintaining trusting customer relations, and reducing our environmental footprint.
- We consider future generations as vital stakeholders for our regionally rooted and globally oriented family-owned company.
- We continuously monitor and reevaluate our results, adjusting our goals to align closely with social and legal requirements.
Our Guiding Principles for Sustainability
To strengthen our contribution to the environment and society as a whole, Bausch+Ströbel is fostering an inclusive environment that empowers all employees to make a positive impact towards achieving our corporate goals.
Our managers have a unique responsibility. As role models, our managers ensure that all employees go about their work in an environmentally responsible way, prioritize resource conservation, understand the importance of health and safety in their daily tasks, and enthusiastically collaborate to achieve our shared goals.
Intensifying our commitment to climate protection
By working towards a sustainable energy supply for the future, we are committed to helping mitigate climate change. We are committed to systematically reducing absolute CO2 emissions at our locations. For several years, we have been implementing measures to enhance energy efficiency and promote the use of eco-friendly power at our locations. We will continue to forge ahead with the use of renewable energy from our own installations.
Our ambitious recycling goals
Recycling stands as the only sustainable solution for addressing the challenge of finite resources. This entails establishing an ongoing usage cycle for all reusable materials while minimizing waste generation. In pursuit of this objective, we will strive to minimize waste generation, improve our internal resource management infrastructure, and place a stronger emphasis on sustainable supply chains.
Towards sustainability in water recycling
The cornerstone of sustainable water management within our company lies in optimizing water use, preventing water wastage, mitigating pollution, and maximizing recycling across all processes.
// Bausch+Ströbel regards responsible resource management as a strategic benchmark for making a positive impact on our employees, society, and the natural environment. ///
Dr. Hagen Gehringer Member of Executive Board
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