Climate Change Data

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.