Sustainability at Groz-Beckert
Sustainability is not achieved through individual measures, but through a continuous focus on our key sustainability issues. As part of the Groz-Beckert Group, Textile Tools addresses the challenges and opportunities that arise in this context for our business segment.
Our focus is on reducing our CO2 emissions, promoting good working conditions at our production and sales locations, and collaborating responsibly with our direct business partners.
Our Sustainability Roadmap
For us, sustainability is not a single project, but an ongoing development process. To ensure a coordinated approach across the entire Group, the Groz-Beckert Group has developed a Sustainability Roadmap. It establishes a common framework for the sustainability issues that represent the greatest environmental and social impacts, risks, and opportunities for all business units alike. It helps us set priorities, define responsibilities, and approach sustainability activities in a structured manner while continuously refining them.
The core elements of our Group-wide sustainability roadmap, information on our key sustainability issues, and further background on Groz-Beckert’s sustainability strategy is available on the Groz-Beckert Group’s Sustainability page.
Visit the Groz-Beckert Group’s Sustainability pageSustainability activities at Textile Tools
Based on the Group-wide Sustainability Roadmap, Textile Tools is implementing targeted measures in selected areas of action. Current priorities include expanding photovoltaic capacity to reduce our Scope 1 CO₂ emissions, promoting good working conditions and social engagement at our main site in Albstadt, and ensuring a responsible supply chain.
Renewable energy as part of our transformation
Through the continuous expansion of our photovoltaic systems, we are making targeted investments in self-sufficiency with renewable energy. Projects such as the photovoltaic installation on the parking canopy and on our new production building at our headquarters in Albstadt/Germany exemplify this approach. In addition, similar projects are being implemented at other locations, such as in Portugal, the Czech Republic, Vietnam, and China. They help increase the share of renewable energy in our energy mix while simultaneously reducing our Scope 1 CO₂ emissions.
In line with the strategic direction of our Sustainability Roadmap, we are currently working on developing short- and long-term CO₂ reduction targets, including a corresponding action plan. These are intended to establish the framework for our future climate-related strategy and help us define ambitious yet well-founded goals for the coming years.
Transparency in our direct supply chain
Groz-Beckert KG is active on the IntegrityNext sustainability platform. Here, we inform our direct customers, partners, and other interested stakeholders about our sustainability commitment regarding anti-corruption and anti-bribery, environmental protection, human and labor rights, occupational safety, supply chain responsibility, quality and energy management, as well as cybersecurity and REACH. Groz-Beckert KG’s current certificates are also available here.
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Our employees are the foundation of our company’s success. As part of our double materiality analysis, we identified working conditions, equal opportunity, and the protection of labor-related rights as particularly material issues.
For us, good working conditions encompass not only measures related to occupational safety and health protection, as well as the design of HR processes, but also the promotion of health, family, and social participation. Especially at our headquarters in Albstadt, we create a supportive environment through various programs that promote the well-being of our employees and their families while also contributing to the location’s appeal.