LEONI’s sustainability programme
Resource shortages, climate change and social justice are the big social and ecological challenges of our times, which LEONI is also confronting. As a global company with about 95,000 employees, as a manufacturer of wiring systems and as a major supplier in the automotive sector, we have a special responsibility and want to actively participate in shaping sustainability. That is why, in 2021, we restructured and refocused our sustainability management in that has been place since 2016 in our new ReWire sustainability programme. We are thereby making sustainability a holistic and integral part of our corporate strategy.
LEONI Sustainability Report 2022 LEONI Sustainability Report 2021
Sustainable Development Goals
LEONI joined the UN Global Compact initiative in 2011. The UN Global Compact is based on principles that pursue the vision of an inclusive, sustainable and resource-saving global economy for the benefit of all humankind and markets. In addition, our principal issues are also intended to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The eight SDGs prioritised by LEONI are:
The health of its employees is very important to LEONI. By 2023, we intend to have lowered our global accident rate, i.e. the number of accidents at work per 100 employees, to 0.3 and we aim to ensure that all of our plants have a certified occupational safety protection management system (ISO 45001 or comparable) by 2025. We furthermore intend to expand our local health protection projects by 2025. We already executed projects at various in plants in 2022, among them Covid-19 vaccinations and days of action on healthcare.
LEONI already has a gender balance in its overall workforce. However, we are also committed to further increasing the proportion of women in senior management and on our Executive Board. We aim by 2030 to have 20% of our senior management positions (Levels 1-3) occupied by women. By 2040, the proportion of women in leadership positions is to be at least 40%. To this end, we are supporting women by offering various schemes for achieving permanent career advancement and intend to target women in our recruiting processes.
Our LEONI Code of Conduct for Business Partners, we unequivocally define protection against human rights abuses for LEONI but also for our upstream value chain. This year, furthermore, we will be systematically auditing our own company for potential human rights-related risks to be able to preventively rule them out.
Promoting sustainable mobility contributes to making cities safe, resilient and sustainable. In keeping with our vision of ‘Best in Class Wiring Systems’, we also intend to be a provider of innovative solutions with respect to sustainability challenges. We are advancing decarbonised mobility by offering such new product solutions for alternative drive technologies as e-mobility. We are already executing individual energy efficiency projects at some facilities, for example by installing innovative solar energy panels.
Sustainable consumption and production
We are presently working on measures to step up our use of secondary raw materials and on replacing ecologically critical materials with more sustainable resources as ways of contributing to more sustainable production. Furthermore, we intend to ensure that both social and ecological standards are observed in our procurement of raw materials. To this end, we have set ourselves goals for raising the transparency of both our purchased materials and the social as well as ecological impact of our suppliers.
We are committed to the Paris Climate Agreement with the aim of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. By 2050, we will have lowered the emissions along our entire value chain (Scope 1-3) by 90%. And from 2040 at the latest, we will have neutralised all unavoidable emissions at our own facilities (Scope 1 and 2), thereby being climate-neutral in our own production.
On the way to a more sustainable future
How can we be even easier on resources in making our products? How can they be used in a more resource-saving way? It is our stated goal to reduce the adverse environmental impact of both our production facilities themselves and our products. We therefore consider many aspects of sustainability as early as the development phase of our products. Our sustainable development spans all value-chain stages and business areas. Good working conditions are the key success factor for LEONI. The safety and health of our employees is promoted with the help of ongoing measures. We are thereby able to jointly offer innovative solutions and systems for resource-efficient and climate-friendly mobility.
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a global, independent non-profit organization that operates the world's leading environmental disclosure system. Using a detailed and independent methodology, CDP annually assesses the level of transparency and disclosure of climate data, awareness and management of environmental risks, and best practices related to environmental leadership, such as setting ambitious targets. Grades from A to D are assigned. LEONI has been reporting its sustainability activities to CDP Climate since 2010 and CDP Water since 2013.
In 2022, CDP awarded LEONI
Climate: Score C
Water: Score C
EcoVadis is an internationally recognized corporate social responsibility (CSR) self-reporting tool that provides a solution for monitoring sustainability in global supply chains. Here, the methodology is based on international sustainability standards and overseen by a scientific panel of CSR and supply chain experts to produce reliable CSR ratings. Ecovadis rates companies using a global cloud-based rating platform. It does this by looking at a variety of factors, including environment and sustainability, labor and human rights, and ethics. The rating results are transparently summarized on scorecards with scores ranging from 0 to 100.
Since 2013 LEONI has also been externally audited by rating agency EcoVadis in the categories environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement. EcoVadis awarded LEONI 67 out of a maximum of 100 points. This score puts LEONI in 92nd place, i.e. in the top five per cent of all companies assessed, which resulted in LEONI being awarded an EcoVadis gold medal, the second-highest level.
LEONI has been committed to the UN Global Compact since 2011. Its principles - especially in the areas of human rights, environmental protection and anti-corruption - are core building blocks of responsible corporate action for us. We are consistently and continuously committed to implementing these principles in our corporate management.
In addition, our UN Global Compact Communication on Progress is available on the UN Global Compact website in the form of the completed CoP questionnaire in accordance with the new guidelines.
LEONI has joined the voluntary Copper Mark initiative as partner. As part of this initiative companies and other organisations jointly commit themselves to responsible copper production and undertake to impose the corresponding standards in their supply chains. As a pure processor without own mines LEONI cannot be officially certified by The Copper Mark, but it seeks to contribute to the success of the initiative as a committed partner and role model for its suppliers.
Organisation and contact
LEONI’s Group-wide Sustainability Management System systematically embeds sustainability within the company and bears responsibility for strategic advancement of sustainability within the LEONI Group to contribute to sustainable development. Our Sustainability Management encompasses planning, management and oversight of the impact of the company and its activities. This also includes communicating on sustainability in the form of a reporting system that is consistent across the Group; e.g. our annual Sustainability Report.
Feel free to contact us at corporate-sustainability@leoni.com if you have any questions. We would similarly be pleased to receive your ideas, comments and suggestions.
Corporate Guidelines / Internal Standards / Commitments