Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Sustainability

Environmental Achievements

• Decreased energy, wastewater, and % to landfill expenses year-over-year for Leaders.
• Leaders saw a 14% decrease in total energy consumption, a 15% decrease in total wastewater costs, and a 5% decrease in % to landfill (year-over-year, normalized for identical production levels).

Social Achievements

• Achieved 99% production compliance (Leaders), compared to 92% for Followers.
• Reduced total cost of quality (Leaders) across prevention, assurance, internal failure, and external failure costs compared to Followers.

Governance Achievements

• Not disclosed

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Rising operational costs
• Production efficiency
• Product quality
• Sustainability-related costs (energy, water, wastewater)
• Improving repeatability and decreasing variations in production processes
• Measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) for sustainability initiatives
• Competition for resources for sustainability initiatives
• Getting buy-in across the organization for sustainability initiatives
• Compliance with government regulatory requirements (FSMA, HACCP, GFSI, FSIS, etc.)

Mitigation Strategies

• Focus on production efficiency, product quality and safety, and sustainability costs.
• Implementation of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Automated data collection for real-time visibility into operations.
• Use of standardized KPIs across the enterprise.
• Statistical analysis of data (SPC, FMEA).
• Aligning quality initiatives to support proven industry standards.
• Integrating quality results directly into production systems.
• Automated workflows to manage non-conformance and recall events.
• Factoring sustainability into operational decision-making.
• Collecting sustainability data in a single repository and providing it to key decision-makers.
• Connecting sustainability information with production data.
• Regular audits to provide visibility into operational performance.
• Formation of cross-functional teams for continuous improvement.
• Implementation of Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement techniques.
• Formal process to dynamically incorporate best practices.
• Use of enterprise systems (ERP, QMS, MES, SCM).

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement

• Not disclosed

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Not disclosed

Transition Risks

• Not disclosed

Opportunities

• Not disclosed

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Null

Certifications: Null

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Not disclosed

Not disclosed

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Not disclosed

Awards & Recognition

• Not disclosed