The Eastern Company
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2023)
Reporting Period: 2023
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Sustainability
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Employee Engagement
Environmental Achievements
- Increased MPG – less weight and wind resistance
- Lower Carbon Emissions
- Renewable Energy Solutions
- Sustainable Supply Chains
Social Achievements
- Centralization of common departments such as HR & IT to increase employee engagement, focused disciplined training, and security
- Centralized on-boarding process and standard training
- Cross-functionally integrated IT systems
Governance Achievements
- Executing Under New Leadership
- Strong operational strength across our leadership team stemming down to each Division to execute on cost savings metrics and vertical integration
- Strong capital allocation & strategic investments being made to continue driving growth using net present value, IRR, and short payback periods
Climate Goals & Targets
Short-term Goals:
- Add value through organic activities by standardization, capital investments, and strategic acquisitions
Environmental Challenges
- Higher raw material and component costs and cost inflation
- Supply chain disruptions and shortages
- Delays in delivery of products
- Global economic conditions and rising interest rates
- Reductions in production levels
- Availability, terms and cost of financing
- Potential impact of bank failures
- Restrictions on operating flexibility
- Risks associated with doing business overseas
- Inability to achieve savings from global sourcing
- Lower-cost competition
- Inability to attain expected benefits from acquisitions
- Costs and liabilities associated with environmental compliance
- Impact of climate change, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and public health crises
- Military conflict
- Terrorist threats
- Failure to protect intellectual property
- Cyberattacks
- Legal judgments, fines, penalties, or settlements
Mitigation Strategies
- Continuously implementing rapid financial and operational improvements to prioritize stabilization across Divisions and deliver robust cashflow
- Executing on a “One Eastern” philosophy of working together to create supply chain optimization and efficiency and leverage internal manufacturing capabilities across the entire company
- Disciplined Capital Utilization
- Focused Value-Adding Operations
- Commercial Acquisitions & Business Vertical Integration
- Standard workflows across organizations by sharing operational knowledge and capabilities
- Standard systems across the company allow for continuous flow of information and real-time analytics
- Strategic expansions and rationalizations within emerging markets with SKU rationalization
- Utilization of manufacturing strategic bases in Reynosa Mexico and China
- Consolidate spend activities and utilize world class manufacturing processes in Asia and North America
- Focused on vertical integration acquisitions
- Increase return by exploiting manufacturing excellence centers in Reynosa & China
Supply Chain Management
Responsible Procurement
- Global sourcing of materials
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- Natural disasters
Transition Risks
- Regulatory changes, market shifts
Opportunities
- Renewable Energy Solutions
- Sustainable Supply Chains