Sustainability

We take responsibility

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.

Living responsibility - today, tomorrow and for future generations.

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 Sustainability Policy

Sustainability as a clearly defined corporate direction

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.

Responsibility for the future

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.

Our commitment to transparency

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.

Our commitment to social responsibility

We have a duty to our employees as well as their ethical treatment and social needs. It therefore goes without saying that we uphold human rights and prioritize suitable working conditions, while also holding our suppliers and partners to the same standards. We firmly oppose child labor, exploitation, discrimination, and corruption. We actively promote diversity and equity in all spheres of society, striving for a harmonious balance among diverse social interest groups.

Our commitment to the region

As an established company with a family character that is deeply rooted in the Hohenlohe region, we accept our responsibility for secure and fairly paid jobs. We are constantly working with our employees, works councils, regional administrations, associations and local institutions to create a liveable environment that stands for security, continuity and humanity. This applies analogously in all regions and locations in which the Bausch+Ströbel Group is represented by its own sites.

Our commitment to the natural environment

As a globally active company, we have a special responsibility to protect the natural foundations of life and use resources sparingly. We therefore support the UN 2030 Agenda and aim to minimise environmental pollution and interference with ecosystems and preserve biodiversity. Continuously improving the sustainability of our products, services and processes is a central component of our actions. In doing so, we utilise resources and energy as efficiently as possible, consider the entire value chain and strive for closed cycles. We actively involve employees, suppliers and customers in this 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:

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.

ISO certification

The ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 standards help us to minimise our ecological impact, meet legal requirements and achieve energy and environmental targets through clearly regulated processes.

ISO certification

Ecovadis

We currently achieve an above-average score of 69 points in the internationally recognised EcoVadis sustainability rating

Ecovadis

IntegrityNext

IntegrityNext enables the evaluation of companies with regard to sustainability and compliance based on various criteria. The profile of Bausch+Ströbel can be requested under the following link.

IntegrityNext

Climate change

KLIMAWIN is a management system for climate protection and sustainability. By signing up to KLIMAWIN, companies commit to adhering to specific guiding principles, reporting on these annually and increasing their commitment to climate protection and sustainability and making this visible.

Climate change