Sustainability Management
Brenntag has established an international team which successfully pursues the systematic development of sustainability at Brenntag. The Board of Management and regional top management support the activities of this team.
In addition, Brenntag Group’s Corporate Development department now has a sustainability coordinator who manages and promotes global projects and initiatives and who maintains a dialogue with those line managers at Group level and in Brenntag’s regions.
OUR APPROACH: OUR SUSTAINABILITY TARGETS
| TOPIC | TARGETS |
|---|---|
| Safety | LTIR1 day/1 million <1.0 for Brenntag Group |
| Sustainable procurement | Analyze 50% of total chemical spend (in EUR) with sustainability assessments or audits as part of the "Together for Sustainability" initiative |
| Environmental protection | Reduce Scope 1 and 2 CO2 emissions (per warehouse tonne sold) by 6% (compared with 2016) |
| Compliance | Achieve and maintain a coverage of 100% in compliance trainings for relevant employees |
| Employees | Provide a working environment where the best people want to work |
| Sustainable solutions | Become preferred distributor for sustainable solutions by setting up pilot projects with 10 selected key suppliers |
| Rating | Achieve and maintain EcoVadis scoring of 62 points and gold recognition level |
„Our concrete sustainability targets for 2020 serve to enhance our sustainability strategy in a targeted manner.”
Further information and tools
EcoVadis is a leading provider of sustainability assessments. The company’s sustainability performance is evaluated in terms of four different categories: environment, labor practices, fair business practices and sustainable procurement. EcoVadis evaluates approx. 6,000 companies every year in this way, in around 150 different industrial sectors in 95 countries. Around 100 multinational companies including use EcoVadis assessments to control and evaluate their suppliers’ sustainability performance.
Brenntag belongs to the top companies assessed
Brenntag already has voluntarily undergone several EcoVadis assessments. In its October 2016 assessment, Brenntag Group was awarded 66 points and thereby achieved gold status (Gold Recognition Level). The result ranks Brenntag among the top companies in our industry as well as among the top suppliers assessed overall by EcoVadis across all industry categories.
Steven Holland, CEO Brenntag AG: "We are pleased that Brenntag’s sustainability achievements have been recognized externally and are rated as above average within our industry."
Brenntag is keen to achieve further scoring improvements. Moreover, as part of its TfS membership, Brenntag encourages its own suppliers to undergo an EcoVadis self-assessment.
A new assessment is planned for 2018.
