Our progress toward greater sustainability

Over the past year, we achieved important progress. In 2025, we reached CO₂e neutrality for our own operations (Scope 1 and 2). This milestone confirms our strategic direction—while recognizing that the path to achieving net-zero across the entire value chain by 2040 remains ambitious and requires continuous emission reductions.

In parallel, we advanced our sustainability management with a clear focus on CSRD compliance. A central element was the successful completion of our double materiality analysis, which now provides a robust basis for strategically prioritizing our key topics. Building on the results, we redesigned our ‘House of Sustainability’ to sharpen our strategic focus.

We also integrated the resulting impacts, risks, and opportunities into our group-wide risk and opportunity management—an important step toward greater structure, transparency, and steering capability.

Our strong ESG performance is once again reflected in independent ratings: the renewed EcoVadis Gold medal and the B rating by CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) underline our ability to maintain and advance our performance in demanding and fast-evolving assessment systems. Particularly noteworthy is the Platinum rating from CyberVadis—the highest rating awarded—which confirms our high standards in digital security and responsible corporate governance. These results reinforce our position as a reliable and attractive partner for our customers and business partners.