Here We Are! Sustainability Report 2013
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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2013 HERE WE ARE! SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2013 Business Employees Environment Society The company at a glance C01 Corporate structure Evonik Consumer, Segments Resource Efficiency Specialty Materials Services Health & Nutrition Business Consumer Health & Inorganic Coatings & Performance Advanced Units Specialties Nutrition Materials Additives Polymers Intermediates T03 Employees a 2012 2013 Number of different nationalities represented at Evonik Not reported 94 Average age of employees 41.3 41.3 Percentage of female employees approx. 24 approx. 24 Employees hired from the labor market 2,539 2,218 Vocational training ratio in Germany in % approx. 9 approx. 9 a Continuing operations. T04 Safety and health protection 2012 2013 Accident safety a Number of work-related accidents involving Evonik employees and contractors’ employees under the direct supervision of Evonik per 1 million hours worked 1.4 0.9 Incident frequency Number of incidents per 1 million working hours in the production facilities operated by the business units, taking 2008 as the reference year (reference base = 100 points). 46 50 a Continuing operations. T05 Status of our environmental targets Target for Change in % compared with 2012 2012 2013 2020 Specific greenhouse gas emissions 100 94 a 88 Specific water consumption 100 95 a 90 a Temporary effects in the energy supply area as a result of production shutdowns and portfolio adjustment effects. C02 Sustainability management at Evonik Executive Board Overall responsibility for sustainability Responsible Executive Board member: Chief Human Resources Officer Business Units Corporate Divisions Regions Sustainability strategy and networks Specialist regional project-based steering committees and management teams T06 Supplier management 2012 2013 Purchased raw materials and supplies in % of total procurement volume 60 63 Renewable raw materials in % of total raw material inputs 9 8 Number of suppliers selected for assessment as potential risk candidates 213 216 Percentage of suppliers that failed to meet Evonik’s requirements 1 1 C03 Donations and sponsorship of public projects in 2013 a Sports b 13 % Science 21 % Other c 11 % Schools 12 % Arts 25 % Social projects 18 % a Expenditures by the Corporate Center, business units and Innovation Management. Total: approx. €7.1 million. b Excludes sponsorship of the Borussia Dortmund soccer club. c Includes donations of €260,000 to political parties in Germany: €100,000 to the CDU/CSU, €90,000 to the SPD, €50,000 to the FDP, and €20,000 to Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (total amounts in each case). Also includes sponsorship of trade fairs and congresses focusing on various different areas. Key data at a glance T01 Key business data in € million 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Sales 10,518 13,300 14,540 13,365 12,874 Adjusted EBITDA a 1,607 2,365 2,768 2,467 2,007 Adjusted EBITDA margin in % 15.3 17.8 19.0 18.5 15.6 Adjusted EBIT b 868 1,639 2,099 1,887 1,424 ROCE c in % 7.7 15.0 18.7 20.4 14.5 Net income 240 734 1,011 1,165 2,054 Earnings per share in € 0.52 1.58 2.17 2.50 4.41 Adjusted earnings per share in € – 2.09 2.70 2.31 1.78 Total assets as of December 31 18,907 20,543 16,944 17,166 15,898 Equity ratio as of December 31 in % 27.6 29.1 35.8 31.9 43.1 Cash flow from operating activities 2,092 2,075 1,309 1,420 1,083 Capital expenditures d 569 652 830 960 1,135 Depreciation and amortization d 712 694 647 580 577 Net financial assets/debt as of December 31 – 3,431 – 1,677 – 843 – 1,163 552 Employees as of December 31 33,861 34,407 33,556 33,298 33,650 Figures for 2009 and 2010 contain the former Energy segment as a discontinued operation. Figures for 2012 and 2013 contain the former Real Estate segment as a discontinued operation. a Adjusted EBITDA = Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization; after adjustments. b Adjusted EBIT = Earnings before interest and taxes; after adjustments. c Return on capital employed. d Intangible assets, property, plant, equipment and investment property. T02 Key environmental data 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Greenhouse gas emissions in thousand metric tons CO2 equivalents 10,188.5 11,320.3 10,833.7 9,090.0 8,800.3 Energy inputs in petajoules 82.98 90.47 92.62 89.48 86.03 Output in million metric tons 9.26 10.61 10.35 9.71 10.06 Operating costs for environmental protection in € million 259 264 251 251 250 Investment in environmental protection in € million 43 36 48 39 29 Waste in thousand metric tons a 400 458 551 515 489 Water intake in million m3 337.4 328.8 310.0 297.1 292.9 a Prior-year figures restated due to changes in waste legislation. HERE WE ARE!—FINDING INNOVATIVE SO - L U TIONS THAT HELP TO MAKE LIVES MORE HEALTHY, COMFORTABLE, AND ENVIRON- MENTALLY SUSTAINABLE. SUS TAINABILITY IS PART OF EVONIK’S COR PORATE PHILO- SOPHY, AND IT IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN OUR DNA THROUGH THE THREE STRA TEGIC PILLARS OF GROWTH, EFFICIENCY AND VALUES. ThOSE WHO TRULY TAKE ON RESPONSIBILITY ARE THE ONES WHO KEEP A CLOSE WATCH OVER THEMSELVES AND THEIR PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES. ThEY CONSTANTLY MONITOR THE RESULTS OF THEIR ACTIONS THROUGH OUT THE VARIOUS PHASES OF THEIR PRO DUCTS’ lIFE CYCLES. AS A COM PANY, WE WANT TO GROW SUSTAINABLY AND WORK FOR AND WITH OUR CUS TO MERS TO FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THE URGENT ISSUES THAT ARE SHAPING OUR FUTURE. CONTENTS Contents 3 Foreword 4 HERE WE ARE! The business 6 Employees 12 The environment 18 Society 24 CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY Sustainability management 32 The business 47 Employees 78 The environment 94 Safety and health protection 109 Commitment to society 117 ANNEX Major sites 124 Market positions 125 Major shareholdings 127 Awards and accolades 2013 128 Membership of networks and initiatives 129 About this report 130 GRI statement 132 GRI index, UN Global Compact and the German Sustainability Code (GSC) 133 Independent Assurance Report 137 List of tables and charts 140 Glossary 141 Credits 144 4 SustainabilitY REPort 2013 EVonik INDustries Klaus Engel, Chairman of the Executive Board Thomas Wessel, Chief Human Resources Officer Dear readers, According to the prognoses of the WWF Living Planet Report 2012 on the health of the earth, in the year 2030 we will need two earths. That’s because, on a worldwide average, the human race already consumes twice the amount of resources that the planet can renew every year. That’s an idea that should give us pause—and also inspire us to develop products that make a noticeable con- tribution to sustainability and are themselves produced sustainably. Sustainability is part of our corporate philosophy and is firmly anchored in our DNA. In order to remain competitive in line with this philosophy over the long term, we need innovations, invest- ments, and growth. As a chemicals company, we are also aware of our responsibility to combine economic success with social justice and environmental compatibility. We want to grow sustainably and find solutions for the urgent issues that are shaping our future. Those who truly take on responsibility are those who keep a close watch over themselves and their products and processes. Some time ago we set long-term environmental targets for ourselves for the period between 2004 and 2014, and we’ve reached these targets two years earlier than expected. However, we’re not going to be content with this success. We’ve set ourselves new and challenging targets for the period between 2013 and 2020: We aim to decrease our specific greenhouse gases by a further 12 percent and our specific water consumption by ten percent. A supply of raw materials is essential for a manufacturing company. In many countries all over the world, economic development has caused the demand for raw materials to grow by leaps and bounds. At the same time, companies as well as end consumers are increasingly basing their 5 purchasing decisions on the documented sustainability and environmental compatibility of the supply chain. That’s why we have joined together with other leading chemicals companies to es- tablish the initiative “Together for Sustainability.” Its goal is to improve sustainability along the supply chain by setting shared environmental and social standards. It also aims to increase trans- parency and efficiency and to optimize the environmental and social standards of our suppliers in a targeted way. Sustainability plays an important role for our customers. They expect the products and technolo- gies they receive from us to comply with high environmental and social standards while also being cost-efficient. By developing constantly improved solutions, we are strengthening the trust our customers place in us. For example, we have proved through certified lifecycle assessments that the addition of amino acids to animal feed not only provides balanced nutrition but also saves re- sources and the environment. Another example is the CAREtain toolbox. This platform documents approximately 25 environmentally relevant characteristics of the most important cosmetics in- gredients produced by Evonik and thus gives the cosmetics industry new options for formulating their products. All over the world, Evonik makes sure that the operation of our production plants is safe and free of incidents—for the sake of our employees as well as our neighbors and the environment. We have reduced our plants’ material emissions and energy releases by 50 percent since 2008. The number of work-related accidents and days lost through sickness has decreased by 90 percent since 2000. Those are very good values, but every work-related accident and every release of material emissions is one too much.