Sustainability Report 2023

ENGEL
Sustainability Report 2023
04/ Sustainability management at ENGEL
individual topic. The following divisions and departments
contributed to the development:
• Human Resources
• Legal and Compliance
• Controlling
• Risk management
• Plasticising systems and recycling
• Schwertberg plant
• St. Valentin plant
• Development
• Product management
• Strategy
• Purchasing and supply chain management
• Quality management
Within the roadmaps, this productive collaboration
generated many objectives for a further
sustainable development within the company.
Selected highlights include:
• Determination of the corporate carbon footprint
for all company locations worldwide
• Professionalisation of the method to
determine the product carbon footprint
• Development of a decarbonisation
strategy/roadmap including objectives
• Even stronger anchoring of sustainability
in the product development process
• Further professionalisation of the sustainable
supply chain management
• Development of a business model for circular
machines and continued development and
expansion of “ENGEL Used Machinery”
• Preparations for requirements from the
regulatory environment (CSRD, taxonomy)
• Establishment of governance in the area of
sustainability
In addition to the development of the roadmaps,
we analysed the specific regulatory environment
of ENGEL and used the findings to
derive opportunities and risks. The customer
surveys conducted for the purposes of the materiality
assessment also offered solid, usable
information for additional steps. Sustainability is
a very important topic, especially for our customers.
We would like to further intensify our
cooperation in this area through cooperation
projects and partnerships in areas including
training & professional development and research
& development.
—
“We aspire to make sustainable
changes to our company and also
strive to be a catalyst for changes
in our environment.”
—
The steps outlined above delivered a solid
strategy process, which will be continued with
our full commitment. The strategy process and
activities implemented so far are already having
a noticeable effect. The intense discussions on
the topic of sustainability raised the awareness
for the topic among the employees. Our internal
communications are now regularly reporting on
sustainability topics, e.g. in our employee magazine
and in our ENGEL intranet. Sustainability
topics are also increasingly adressed in the
course of onboarding new employees. All employees
are actively requested to use EPOS
(ENGEL Process Optimisation System) to contribute
with their wishes and suggested improvements
in the area of sustainability. The
28