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Sustainability as a compass

Our sustainability strategy

We are systematically driving forward the issue of sustainability. Because long-term strategies are important signposts - especially in challenging times.

"Passion for successul joining" und die Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie

Planet, People, Partnership

Anchoring sustainability in the corporate strategy

By 2030, we want to significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions - in Scopes 1, 2, and 3.

We had our associated near-term targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative in 2025. Specifically, we want to cut our Scope 1 and 2 emissions in half by 2030 and reduce our Scope 3 emissions by a quarter (in each case compared to our base year 2021).

Scopes 1 and 2 cover greenhouse gas emissions from our own business activities - for example, through the purchase of electricity or burning of natural gas, diesel and gasoline for heating or travel. Scope 3 covers our upstream and downstream value chain.

To achieve our goals, we have included sustainability as a focus topic in our current corporate strategy and are pursuing numerous specific measures. However, we understand sustainability not only as the responsibility for our environment, but also as a commitment to our employees, society and acting in line with the expectations of other interest groups.

Dr J. Bunte, T. Pixa, Dr C. Wesch-Potente, M. W. Böllhoff, W. A. Böllhoff
Dr J. Bunte, T. Pixa, Dr C. Wesch-Potente, M. W. Böllhoff, W. A. Böllhoff

Expectations

Our stakeholders

The Böllhoff Group's internal and external stakeholders have many different interests. This results in practical requirements for our sustainability management. It was therefore crucial for the development of a materiality matrix to analyse and prioritize the expectations of the various parties. The following list provides an insight into the diversity of our interest groups.

  • Interests: 

    • Safe workplaces 
    • Good working conditions 
    • Work-life balance 
    • Personal and professional development opportunities 
    • Equal opportunities 
    • Transparency  

    Integration: 

    • Employee satisfaction survey 
    • Idea management 
    • Works councils 
    • Works meetings 
    • Supervisor evaluation 
    • Consultation and support meetings 
    • Employee events 

  • Interests: 

    • Transparency  
    • Profitable growth 
    • Sustainable orientation of the company
    • Highly satisfied customers 
    • Enthusiastic employees 

    Integration: 

    • Advisory board meetings 
    • Shareholders' meetings

    • Townhall meetings 

       

  • Interests: 

    • Competitive prices 
    • High quality 
    • Innovative strength 
    • Reliability  
    • Responsible use of resources 
    • High occupational health and safety standards 
    • Compliance with the Code of Ethics 
    • Transparency 

    Integration: 

    • Customer satisfaction surveys 
    • Customer visits 
    • Newsletter  
    • Customer platforms 
    • Social Media 
    • Fairs  

  • Interests: 

    • Working in partnership 
    • Reliability  
    • Contract compliance 

    Integration: 

    • Böllhoff Supplier Portal - Supplier platform 
    • Fairs  
    • Supplier Day 
    • Audits  
    • Supplier visits 

  • Interests: 

    • Transparency  
    • Credibility  
    • Willingness to cooperate 
    • Dealing with critical issues 
    • Sponsoring  
    • Compliance with legal requirements 
    • Provision of workplaces 
    • Equal opportunities 

    Integration: 

    • Social Media 
    • Job fairs 
    • Career portal 
    • Press articles 
    • Cooperations  
    • Visitor tours 

  • Interests: 

    • Compliance  
    • Tax payments 
    • Workplaces  
    • Security  
    • Transparency  
    • Profitable growth 

    Integration: 

    • Visitor tours 

  • Interests: 

    • Fair competition 
    • Willingness to cooperate 

    Integration: 

Global responsibility

The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations

In 2015, the UN adopted the 17 "Sustainable Development Goals" (SDGs). As a central component of the 2030 Agenda, they set out the most pressing global challenges in terms of sustainability at an economic, social and environmental level. We are committed to these political goals and want to make a concrete contribution to the sustainable development of our world - particularly through SDGs 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 13. 

An overview of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Materiality analysis

Always keeping an eye on the key sustainability issues

When introducing the European Sustainability Reporting Standards at Böllhoff, we updated our materiality analysis in 2024. All topics were discussed with stakeholder representatives, risks and opportunities were assessed and it was analysed where we have an impact on our environment. The results determine the content of our report and have been assigned to the areas of Planet, People, Partnership.

  1. Planet
  2. People
  3. Partnership

1: E1 - Climate change mitigation​ | 2: E1 - Energy ​| 3: E3 - Water withdrawals ​| 4: E5 - Resource inflows, including resource use ​| 5: E5 - Resource outflows related to products and services | 6: E5 - Waste ​| 7: G1 - Management of relationships with suppliers

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8: S1 - Working conditions ​| 9: S1 - Equal treatment and opportunities for all ​| 10: S1 - Other work-related rights ​| 11: S2 - Working conditions ​| 12: S2 - Equal treatment and opportunities for all ​| 13: S2 - Other work-related rights

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14: G1 – Corporate culture. Further topics not included in the ESRS:​ 15: Cybersecurity ​| 16: Digitalisation and automation

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THREE DIMENSIONS

Our fields of action, topics and goals

In the strategy development process, the Böllhoff Group defined three dimensions or fields of action for the sustainability strategy. In turn, all fields of action focus on key topics and objectives. This ensures that we stay on course with our sustainability activities at all times.

  • Planet

    On the one hand, the Planet field of action focuses on our products and services, which enable lightweight construction, downsizing of components and material savings, for example. On the other hand, it is also about developing measures to ensure that our products can be manufactured more sustainably. In terms of content, these range from the use of renewable energies to the optimization of processes in order to minimize waste.

    Our key topics and objectives 

    Renewable energies: 

    • Expanding in-house renewable electricity generation by commissioning additional photovoltaic systems
    • By the end of 2024: Increase the proportion of self-generated energy within Germany to 20 % of our total consumption (target had to be postponed due to supply difficulties with photovoltaic components. Next review planned for the end of 2024.)
    • Conduct feasibility study on the construction of wind turbines at German company locations 

    Production and logistics: 

    • By 2030: Cut CO₂ emissions in Scope 1 and 2 [own business operations] in half (-50% compared to our base year 2021)
    • By 2030: Reduce CO₂ emissions in Scope 3 [upstream and downstream value chain] by a quarter (-25% compared to 2021)
    • Participation in the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) 

    Environmental and climate protection: 

    • Introduce a cross-national sustainability committee
    • Establishing an international sustainability management system 

    Sustainable supply chain: 

    • Expand supplier management system to include environmental and social risks
    • By 2024: evaluate all suppliers with regard to sustainability criteria 

    Innovative products and processes: 

    • By 2024: Create product carbon footprints for Highrunner articles
    • Increase the recyclability of our packaging, for example through reusable packaging and new materials 

  • People

    The aim of the People field of action is to strengthen the long-term well-being of our employees. We take a variety of approaches to achieve this: from further training opportunities to promote individual skills and comprehensive occupational health and safety measures to attractive additional benefits for all employees.

    Our key topics and objectives

    Education:

    • Prevent the shortage of skilled workers by continuously improving our own training

    Attractive employer:

    • Internal: Further increase employee satisfaction and identification with the company
    • External: Being the first choice for talents looking for a company

    Further training:

    • Identify and serve training needs within the company even more effectively
    • Introducing agile methods

    Occupational health and safety:

    • Vision Zero: No accidents at work

    Diversity:

    • Systematically increasing diversity within the company

  • Partnership

    As a fourth-generation family business with regional roots, we put people at the heart of everything we do. That is why we are also committed to the society in which we live - with our own foundations, donations and personal commitment.

    Our key topics and objectives

    Social commitment:

    • Strengthening international commitment
    • Expanding youth development
    • Promoting the voluntary commitment of employees
    • Strengthening the region

    Compliance and transparency:

    • Compliance with applicable guidelines: Legal provisions and Böllhoff rules of the compliance system

"As a company, we are working on continuous improvement in the area of sustainability and constantly creating more transparency. Transparency about where we are today. Transparency about what we are already doing well. And most importantly: transparency about where we can leverage further potential."

Jens Bunte
Jens BunteCorporate management, responsible for sustainability, among other things
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Interdisciplinary task

Organization of sustainability in the company

We take an interdisciplinary and international approach to promoting sustainability within the company. This is because sustainability is a topic that affects numerous areas of the company and each of these specialist areas contributes to greater sustainability within the company with its own measures. Since 2024, our international Sustainability Guides have ensured that cross-border measures are not only coordinated and implemented from Germany, but also directly at our locations worldwide.

The Corporate Quality Sustainability (CQS) department forms the central interface. This is where all the requirements and measures of the various departments are brought together and bundled into a networked overall strategy. The CQS actively involves all departments in the further development of the sustainability strategy. The head of the CQS department reports directly to the company management. 

Ein Sustainability Guide der Böllhoff Gruppe

People and stories

Dive deeper into sustainability at Böllhoff

In our online magazine, we show you what we do about sustainability, how we do it - and, of course, the people behind it.

To the Böllhoff magazine

Guidelines for our reporting

General information

Our sustainability reporting is based on the ESRS (European Sustainability Reporting Standards).

You can find out what this means and how they have been interpreted here