DISKUS WERKE AG
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2017)
Reporting Period: 2017
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Social Responsibility
- Employee Well-being
- Community Investment
- Education
Social Achievements
- Created 78 new jobs, increasing the workforce to over 1200 employees.
- Supported projects in Sub-Saharan Africa through PfefferminzGreen e.V., including microcredit initiatives, beekeeping projects, and agricultural improvements.
- Funded teacher salaries and provided opportunities for German apprentices to work in Rolal, Sierra Leone.
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Supply chain disruptions due to increased prices and longer lead times in certain areas (e.g., linear technology, ball screws).
- Uneven capacity utilization at some subsidiaries.
- High follow-up costs for projects and high purchased services and fixed costs at BUDERUS Schleiftechnik GmbH.
Mitigation Strategies
- Proactive, early disposition and group-wide warehousing strategy for critical components.
- Multiple equivalent suppliers to mitigate supplier failure.
- Flexible working time arrangements and other flexibility options to adapt to fluctuating capacity needs and extreme delivery time requirements.
- Continuous improvement of production productivity and quality.
- Consistently high investments in the latest technologies and machines.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 4 (Quality Education)
- Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth)
- Goal 1 (No Poverty)
Supporting education and income-generating activities in Sub-Saharan Africa.