MANN+HUMMEL: Sustainability report 2022
12 %
Reduction of energy intensity*
6 %
Reduction of energy demand**
100 %
Electricity from renewable sources incl. certificates***
*GWh per million € production output; GRI 302-3 | **GWh; Scope 1 & 2; GRI 302-4 | ***GoOs, REGOs, ROCs, RECs, I-RECs
Statement of the Board of Management on sustainability
Kurk Wilks (CEO) & Emese Weissenbacher (EVP & CFO)
At MANN+HUMMEL our sustainability transformation is based on clear values and our vision of Leadership in Filtration. We want to support our customers on their way to more sustainability and drive our own transformation in parallel.
The pursuit of sustainability is not a luxury, but a compelling necessity in order to dovetail entrepreneurial activity with social and ecological progress.
This insight is not new at MANN+HUMMEL, but has been evident in our corporate philosophy since the company's beginnings: separating the harmful from the useful. We not only support our customers on their way to more sustainable products and services, but also work in parallel with all our strength on the social and ecological optimization of our own processes and solutions.
In the past reporting year 2022, we sharpened our focus in all dimensions of our sustainability strategy (ecology, economy, social affairs and technology); on the basis of an updated double materiality analysis, we focused on ten topics.
We are implementing our Carbon Zero Strategy with groupwide packages of measures. The successes are evident in the reporting year: Despite a significant increase in production volumes, we reduced both the specific use of resources per product and CO2 emissions by 19 percent compared with the previous year. In return, we reduced our own energy consumption by 5 percent compared with the previous year. On balance, we obtained our electricity entirely from renewable sources. In this way, we are shaping our transformation process toward CO2-neutral production and, in the long term, a CO2-neutral value chain in 2050. We are thus on the right track, as confirmed by the external CDP climate rating, in which we improved to a B rating.
As a member of the UN Global Compact, we are committed to the ten principles of this United Nations initiative in the areas of human rights, labor standards, the environment, and anti-corruption.
For MANN+HUMMEL, human rights are indispensable pillars of business interaction. It is therefore no surprise that there were no confirmed cases of human rights violations at MANN+HUMMEL in the year under review.
In preparation for the introduction of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz) on January 1, 2023, we have updated and once again expanded our monitoring and control mechanisms in the context of human rights in our group of companies and our supply chain.
Independent sustainability ratings confirm that we have taken the right course. MANN+HUMMEL is among the top five percent of companies evaluated in the ecoVadis® rating and was again awarded the gold medal in the reporting year.
We are pursuing this path with conviction: Employees and all management levels are aware of the positive impact of forward-looking planning and early anticipation of opportunities and threats. We are all committed to the ambitious goals we have set ourselves in our strategy.
This is our path to a sustainable future.
Sustainability report for download
For the sixth time, MANN+HUMMEL presents a complete overview of its corporate responsibility in the form of a Corporate Responsibility Report. This report has been prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards: Core option. We highlight the focus of our corporate social responsibility using the four areas of 'Our value added', 'Our environment', Our employees', and 'Our governance'.
Sustainability Strategy - our understanding
- As leader in Filtration, we enable our customers to be more sustainable.
- As a company, we are active contributor and we take responsibility for our business, our employees, our value chain and our planet.
- We have the intention to promote company actions in harmony to our business interest as well as regulations.
In addition to behavioral changes in the use of resources and a fundamental rethinking of product design, production, operation, and recycling, we at MANN+HUMMEL are using technology to make our world more sustainable and cleaner.
As a world-leading filtration company, we focus on filtration with the aim of separating the useful from the harmful. We develop solutions that enable cleaner mobility, air and water and deliver key technologies that pave the way to a cleaner planet.
