Sustainable Development Report 2019 Bobst Group SA ˍEmpowering the Next Generation Editorial
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Sustainable development report 2019 Bobst Group SA ˍ Empowering the next generation Editorial Sustainable development Historic turning point report 2019 > Editorial for the packaging industry > Objectives > Good health Water pollution, depletion of natural resources, climate change: At the forefront of innovation, the Bobst Group is actively committed > Education everywhere in the world, the degradation of our environment to contributing to the success of its industry’s transformation. In > Clean energy is accelerating. The existence, habitat, and future of millions of partnership with companies that are pioneers in the design of inks individuals are directly at stake. These are the many reasons and recyclable substrates, we are developing a new generation > Decent job that drive us to take action! of equipment that will be sustainable, from packaging design to > Infrastructure manufacture. > Sustainable city Our 2019 sustainable development report yet again shows the importance and relevance of the initiatives supported by our This new challenge offers a great opportunity to prove that the > Responsible local entities this year. They help fight against social inequalities, processing industry can become more sustainable and yet remain consumption economic precariousness, and health dangers. economically viable. > Climate actions > Dashboards Led by young people who are protesting in all the cities in the world, citizens and political parties are urging governments to take action. Faced with the increased volume of waste, consumers declare that they are ready to give up products packaged in materials that are neither recyclable nor biodegradable. The plastics industry, with nearly 40% of global production being used to manufacture packaging, is undergoing its biggest ever transformation. This is a historic turning point which calls for Jean-Pascal Bobst Chief Executive Officer the needs of sustainable development to be combined with cutting edge technology, in order to effectively reduce the environmental impact of packaging. “Combining sustainability with technological innovation to reduce the Print responsibly environmental impact of packaging.” Bobst Group SA Page 2 Objectives Sustainable development report 2019 ˍMaking > Editorial > Objectives a difference > Good health > Education > Clean energy Everyone at their level > Decent job > Infrastructure Group leader in the global industry, BOBST is committed > Sustainable city to advancing environmental and societal solutions on > Responsible a worldwide scale. Its initiatives support the objectives, consumption within its reach, of the United Nations’ sustainable > Climate actions development program. > Dashboards As a partner of the city of Brno in the Czech Republic, Bobst Central Europe provides regular aid to the local communities. Each year, its staff devote one day’s work to a project helping children. In 2019, they renovated the premises of a care home for young people in difficulty and planted an apple tree symbolizing their long-term commitment. Print responsibly Bobst Group SA Page 3 BOBST’s sustainable development objectives Sustainable development Our 2019 actions at a glance report 2019 > Editorial BOBST is organizing a charity tournament Training young Brazilians in technical trades, > Objectives in the United Kingdom to support the offering a future to adolescents in difficulty reintegration of serious accident victims in Poland, and giving Chinese schoolchildren > Good health into the work environment. access to IT. > Page 5 > Page 6 > Education > Clean energy BOBST has equipped its premises in Bielefeld, To promote decent occupational activities > Decent job Germany, with LED lighting and now produces for everyone, Bobst Italia is participating > Infrastructure hot water in its local entity in Shanghai with in International Labor Organization (ILO) no CO2 emissions. programs. > Sustainable city > Page 7 > Page 9 > Responsible consumption Bobst Mex SA signed an agreement with the Each year in Brazil, BOBST organizes > Climate actions Swiss government to reduce the CO2 emissions charitable and sustainable activities, on its industrial site by 30% in 2020. which, since 2010, have earned it the title > Dashboards > Page 9 of “Citizen Enterprise”. > Page 10 Throughout the world, BOBST is increasing To combat global warming, the staff of two sustainable innovations: digitalization local entities in the Czech Republic and of manufacturing flows, printing with low Germany use soft mobility to go to work. carbon footprint, and a new generation > Page 16 of biodegradable packaging. > Page 10 In Mex (Switzerland), rain provides 18% of BOBST the water needs for sanitary facilities. dashboards 8.8% of the Group’s electricity comes from a photovoltaic source. 2019 > Page 17 Print responsibly Bobst Group SA Page 4 Sustainable development Charity tournament report 2019 > Editorial Organizing a golf tournament with 15 teams from From 2023, it will also take in civilian patients to help the UK printing industry, Bobst UK & Ireland collected them regain their physical or mental fitness following > Objectives over CHF 7 500 in donations for the British Defence a serious accident and help them to reintegrate into > Good health Goal 3: Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC). the work environment. Ensure healthy > Education lives and promote Founded at the end of the Second World War, this Since 2016, BOBST has been involved in the DMRC > Clean energy well-being for all, clinic looks after service personnel who have been charity fund, organizing raffles, auctions, and events. > Decent job at all ages wounded or have complex traumas. > Infrastructure > Sustainable city > Responsible consumption > Climate actions > Dashboards Print responsibly Bobst Group SA Page 5 Sustainable development Offering opportunities to young report 2019 > Editorial people in Brazil > Objectives > Good health Goal 4: Bobst Latino America do Sul is collaborating with two APAMI (Associação de Patrulheiros Mirins de Ensure inclusive local occupational training organizations. Itatiba), which supervises and prepares job-seeking > Education and equitable adolescents, placed two candidates with the local > Clean energy quality education The National Industrial Apprenticeship Service Brazilian entity in 2019. > Decent job and promote (SENAI), a non-profit-making educational institution, lifelong learning is for young people between the ages of 14 and 24, BOBST also took in five interns from university > Infrastructure opportunities for all seven of whom trained as mechanics and electricians courses in partnership with the Centre d’Intégration > Sustainable city at BOBST in 2019. École-Entreprise (CIEE) [School-Company > Responsible Integration Center]. consumption > Climate actions > Dashboards Educate for a viable future “Education, in short, is humanity’s best hope and most effective means in the quest to achieve sustainable development” (UNESCO, 1997). Bobst Polska has made this statement its creed. For the second year in succession, its employees have collaborated with a charity association that supports children who are living in a difficult social or family environment. Their donation enabled three young Polish 15 year- olds to pursue their training: Tamara was able to attend drawing lessons to enter a School of Art, Mikołaj attended private lessons in sciences, math, Print responsibly and IT, and Krzysztof attended a cooking workshop to join a Culinary Arts Academy. Bobst Group SA Page 6 Sustainable development Access to IT tools report 2019 > Editorial Bobst Shanghai supplied 30 laptops to the schools of a city in Yunnan province, a mountainous region in > Objectives south-west China on the border with Vietnam, Laos, and Burma, which is among the poorest in the country. > Good health The local Chinese entity had its old laptops checked and reinitialized by a company that will install them > Education and provide technical support. It also donated furniture and school supplies and will provide financial help to children from the lowest-income families. > Clean energy > Decent job > Infrastructure > Sustainable city > Responsible consumption Ecological company lighting > Climate actions > Dashboards Year after year, BOBST is implementing new measures to reduce electricity consumption relating to its industrial activities and services. The investments “98% of the Bobst Goal 7: made by its local entities in lighting systems with Ensure access to energy-saving LED bulbs enabled the Group’s Bielefeld production affordable, reliable, electricity consumption to fall by over 3.3% in 2018. sustainable and workshops in modern energy Since 2019, 98% of the Bobst Bielefeld production for all workshops in Germany have been equipped with Germany are LED lighting. Bobst Ibérica, the local Spanish services entity, also replaced all its halogen light bulbs with equipped with LED LEDs at its Barcelona offices. lighting.” Print responsibly Bobst Group SA Page 7 Sustainable development Heating water with zero CO2 emissions report 2019 > Editorial Since November 2019, Bobst Shanghai has been producing its hot water using solar energy and a heat pump. The combination of the two systems gives a thermal efficiency five times better than its old gas boiler opane(pr > Objectives and butane). > Good health > Education The new system not only consumes much less energy, but its operating costs are 20% lower and the production of hot water causes virtually no pollution. > Clean energy > Decent job > Infrastructure > Sustainable