Corporate strategy "Sustainability" - Schülke & Mayr GmbH achieves GOLD at Ecovadis

• With the current award from Ecovadis, schülke clearly underlines its pioneering role within the industry.
  
• In addition to ecological sustainability, social and economic sustainability are also firmly anchored in the company.
• Taking responsibility for current and future generations in a globalized world - that is schülke's mission.

schülke has set itself the goal of playing a pioneering role in sustainability issues. With its corporate strategy and the resulting measures, schülke is guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations - and is convinced that ecological sustainability always goes hand in hand with social and economic sustainability.With this guiding principle, schülke fulfills decisive requirements for a positive Ecovadis ranking.

What exactly does Ecovadis assess?

Since its foundation in 2007, Ecovadis has developed into one of the world's largest and most reliable providers of sustainability ratings. The internationally active platform now rates over 100,000 companies in more than 200 sectors and 175 countries using selected benchmarks, making it easier for customers to find out about the sustainability performance of individual companies and compare them with one another.

The Ecovadis sustainability assessment methodology shows how well a company has integrated the principles of sustainability/CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) into its business and management system - and is based on an assessment of a total of 21 sustainability criteria in the four areas of environment, labor and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement. The criteria cover all key CSR aspects, from energy consumption, employee safety and data protection to the environmental and social practices of suppliers. The guidelines, implementation and results are examined.

Sustainability at schülke leads to Ecovadis Gold rating

Schülke & Mayr GmbH has firmly anchored sustainability in its strategy and in the company. schülke drives innovation, optimizes supply chains and further develops the design of its products in order to continuously change the company's ecological footprint for the better, to make energy and material cycles more efficient and to improve social standards worldwide. A current example is the mikrozid^® universal wipes green line, the first disinfectant wipes from schülke for the clinical sector whose wipe material is produced entirely from renewable raw materials - with the usual high cleaning performance and material compatibility.

schülke also underlined its clear commitment to climate protection in June 2022 by joining the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and the associated commitment to meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Protection Agreement. At the beginning of 2023, schülke submitted its specific climate protection targets to SBTi for validation and SBTi is expected to verify the targets by the end of the year.

schülke's mission: protecting life worldwide and taking responsibility for current and future generations

"We have significantly increased our sustainability activities in recent years," says Stefan Kukacka, CEO of Schülke und Mayr GmbH, "so we are all the more pleased that our measures for ecological and social sustainability and our responsible corporate governance have once again been recognized by Ecovadis and have now been confirmed with a Gold rating. This makes us very proud and is also an incentive to continue to improve.

"For Stefan Kukacka, it is clear that schülke "takes responsibility for current and future generations in a globalized world. Our mission to protect life worldwide does not end at the borders of our factory premises. We see it as our responsibility to make our own contribution and also to support our customers in their transformation towards greater sustainability. And the Ecovadis assessment gives our customers certainty and clarity when making purchasing decisions."

You can find more information about schülke's commitment to sustainability here.