Honoring Powerful Sustainability Practices

Important Progress

In 2017, the company’s manufacturing plant in Pinerolo, Italy, became the first company site to undertake the vigorous NQC process to rank itself against a global sustainability index. Motivated by Pinerolo’s experience, most of the company’s other facilities have also completed the self-ranking to assess their sustainability achievements. In the past two years, however, efforts to standardize and improve Freudenberg Sealing Technologies’ sustainability reporting “have been driven to a new level by the Sustainability and Growtth network,” Harmening said.

Energy monitoring systems and the Enablon data program allow sustainability experts working at every Freudenberg Sealing Technologies production facility to monitor their progress against their previous performance and against other locations and companies. The effort to activate these new software and reporting systems has been managed by Harmening with the help of a very large team of employees from HR, HSE, Procurement and other departments.

“It’s really important that we have accurate documents and figures in our reporting our sustainability efforts as a company,” she said. “And while our Silver EcoVadis status may offer a competitive advantage to some of our customers, others have already achieved EcoVadis gold and platinum status. We must strive to reach these levels as well.”

Sckuhr expressed confidence in Freudenberg Sealing Technologies’ sustainability efforts.

“When it comes to global issues like sustainability, each of us plays a decisive role,” the COO said. “I am certain Freudenberg Sealing Technologies will attain its sustainability goals because of its people are working hard on these issues. I am proud and excited to lead this journey on behalf of our employees, customers, stakeholder, suppliers, and communities. We are determined to leave the world in a better place than we inherited.”