Occupational health and safety
The TfS audit is based on a globally uniform sustainability
standard and thus is also one of the most important rankings
in this area. ECKART was the Group’s first company to successfully
complete this several-day audit at its site in Zhuhai,
China, at the beginning of 2016. The company swiftly
implemented
the few improvements suggested in the report
in the course of the year.
Decentralized Responsibility Structures
To achieve its strategic targets, ALTANA relies on the Group’s
proven decentralized structures, for which the holding
company sets the framework. These structures include binding
group guidelines for environmental protection, health,
and safety.
ALTANA Materiality Matrix
Energy
Materials
Water
and the Together for Sustainability (TfS) initiative of the chemical
industry play a special role.
In 2016, ALTANA had itself evaluated by EcoVadis for
the second time and was awarded the Gold Status. As a result,
the Group improved significantly compared to 2015,
when it received Silver Status. EcoVadis, which analyzes environmental
aspects, procurement policy, compliance, and
working conditions of companies based on the international
sustainability guideline ISO 26000, has become one of the
world’s leading ratings platforms for the chemical industry.
20,000 companies are now registered with it.
The Group used the good result as impetus to prepare
all of its sites for an EcoVadis audit. In the year under review,
six sites in Germany, Italy, Spain, and China completed their
preparations; all of the other sites will follow, step by step, in
the next few years.
Products
Environmental protection expenditures
and investments
Significance for ALTANA
Significance for our stakeholders
Effluents and waste
Emissions
Procurement
practices
Economic performance
Customer health and safety
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