Festo_Sustainability-Report_2020

Table of contents Preface 5 Festo in summary 6 1. Strategy and sustainability management 8 1.1 Industrial transformation as a business model 10 1.2 Sustainability strategy and management 12 2. Festo footprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.1 Regional distribution of purchasing volume 18 2.2 Sustainable procurement 19 2.3 Networks and committee work 21 3. People at Festo 22 3.1 Staff development 24 3.2 Diversity 28 3.3 Further training 30 3.4 Training 32 3.5 Holistic health promotion 33 3.6 Safety at work 34 4. Ethics and governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.1 Compliance 38 4.2 Human rights 40 5. Environment, energy and construction . . . . . . . . 42 5.1 Environmental management 44 5.2 Sustainable construction in Jinan, China 51 6. Resource and material efficiency . . . . . . . . . . 52 6.1 Packaging 54 6.2 Use of aluminium 55 6.3 Scrap reduction in the plant 55 6.4 Consideration of applicable guidelines and laws 55 6.5 Simplified ecological life cycle assessment 56 6.6 Lightweight construction as an interdisciplinary cross- sectional topic 56 6.7 Culture of repair 58 6.8 Open-loop and closed-loop strategies 58 7. Climate protection and energy efficiency . . . . . . . 60 7.1 Energy efficiency 62 7.2 Festo Energy Saving Services 64 8. Technical basic and further training and corporate educational responsibility (CER) 66 8.1 Energy innovation 68 8.2 Water management 70 8.3 Festo Learning Experience (Festo LX) 72 8.4 Bionics and STEM offerings for secondary education 74 8.5 Learning through competitions 75 9. Impact on our customers and society . . . . . . . . 76 9.1 Support projects 78 9.2 Stable production in system-relevant areas 80 9.3 Employee commitment 81 GRI index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Report profile 90 Notice within the meaning of the General Act on Equal Treatment (AGG) Where only the masculine form is used in this report, this is done for linguistic simplifica- tion purposes only. Based on our position and the principles of the General Act on Equal Treatment, the information provided refers equally to all genders. The use of only one gender form should not be a gender-specific discrimination, but only serves the purpose of better readability and better understanding of the pages and the formulations used on them.  The detailed report profile can be found on page 90. Because the photographic material was taken during the coronavirus pandemic, the photo- graphs of people were taken in accordance with the precautionary and protective measures in force and recommended at the time. Title image Quality inspection in protective mask production – one of the many measures Festo is supporting to combat the coronavirus pandemic. More on this in Chapter 9 . 3