Wacker’s new sustainability report meets top standard of the global reporting initiative

Published: 22-Aug-2011

Substantial improvement in many areas


Wacker Chemie AG has published its Sustainability Report for the period from 2009 through 2010. The report fully meets the guidelines set by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which has evaluated the report and accorded it an A, their highest report grade.

With its new Sustainability Report, the Munich-based chemical company aims to provide a transparent and comprehensive account of sustainability at Wacker for the benefit of its customers, business partners, employees, shareholders, analysts, non-governmental organizations, regulatory bodies and the neighbours of its various sites. Besides English and German, this report is now available for the first time in Chinese too.

The report covers traditional sustainability topics, such as environmental protection, health protection, workplace and plant safety, as well as sustainability management. In the report, Wacker also covers such topics such as equal opportunity, demographics, work-life balance and international disaster aid.

The facts and figures in the Sustainability Report make it clear that Wacker has made substantial improvement in many areas that are important for sustainable business management. For instance, the group continued to strongly improve with regard to its indicator of specific environmental units measured against production volumes.

Wacker assessed its structures and processes for sustainability management and adapted them to the Group’s increasing globalisation. Environmental, health and safety, and product safety management have now been standardised worldwide, but without neglecting regional factors.

Wacker has expanded its global network of compliance officers and thoroughly trained its employees in legally and ethically appropriate conduct. Wacker‘s relief fund (Wacker Hilfsfonds), which provides disaster aid in the aftermath of natural disasters, supported projects in China, Haiti, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 2009 and 2010. The fund focuses in particular on the reconstruction and operation of schools.

The report is available online at www.wacker.com/sustainabilityreport and offers easy navigation and interactive functions, such as key-indicator comparisons and download options.

A PDF version can also be downloaded from the ‘Sustainability’ section at www.wacker.com/sustainability. Print versions can be ordered from www.wacker.com/publications.

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