Title image Our photovoltaic plant at the Jinan factory, China, is the largest in the world. With an expected output of 4,500,000 kilowatt hours, 4,200 tonnes of CO2 could be saved. More on this in Chapter 5. 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 simplification 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 94. 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 New working world: ‘new normal’ . . . . . . . . . . 27 3.3 Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.4 Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.5 Further training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3.6 Safety at work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3.7 Holistic health promotion 37 4. Ethics and governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 4.1 Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 4.2 Human rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 5. Environment, energy and construction . . . . . . . . 44 5.1 Environmental management . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 5.2 Photovoltaics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 6. Resource and material efficiency . . . . . . . . . . 56 6.1 Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 6.2 Use of aluminium 59 6.3 Scrap reduction in the plant 59 6.4 Consideration of applicable guidelines and laws . . . . 59 6.5 Ecological life cycle of our products . . . . . . . . . 61 7. Climate protection and energy efficiency . . . . . . . 62 7.1 Energy efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 7.2 Festo Energy Saving Services . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 8. Technical basic and further training and corporate educational responsibility (CER) 68 8.1 Energy innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 8.2 CO2 monitoring in ongoing production 71 8.3 Festo Learning Experience (Festo LX) 72 8.4 Bionics and STEM offerings for secondary education . . 74 8.5 Learning through competitions . . . . . . . . . . . 76 9. Impact on our customers and society . . . . . . . . 78 9.1 Fibre balls to combat micro-pollutants 80 9.2 Safe production of batteries for electric vehicles . . . . 81 9.3 Digitisation promotes sustainability . . . . . . . . . 82 9.4 Social commitment 83 9.5 Learning solutions in solar and wind energy technology 84 9.6 Disposable gloves produced quickly and safely 84 9.7 LCM 2021 conference: Festo as industrial co-chair . . . . 85 10. GRI index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 11. Report profile 94 Because the photographic material was taken during the coronavirus pandemic, the photographs of people were taken in accordance with the precautionary and protective measures in force and recommended at the time. 3
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