Sustainability

SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2022

Every tree and every piece of wood is as unique as it is fascinating. For us, it is a privilege to use this versatile, natural product to produce sustainable parquet floors. In doing so, we feel obligated to manage our resources in a sustainable way – across the entire value chain.  

Every tree and every piece of wood is as unique as it is fascinating. For us, it is a privilege to use this versatile, natural product to produce sustainable parquet floors. In doing so, we feel obligated to manage our resources in a sustainable way – across the entire value chain.  

As a leading European manufacturer of parquet, it is our responsibility to have as small an environmental footprint as we can. This is something we owe to nature, to future generations and to ourselves. This means that we continuously optimise and develop our whole sustainability strategy.

In order break these activities down in an expedient manner, we have identified four focus areas for our materiality analysis, which we briefly discuss below. For a detailed background on these, please see our full report.

Management structure 

We are a wood processing company, and as such, sustainability is in our DNA. The question of how we pursue this is an essential part of our disclosure activities, and for this reason, we treat it as separate and the first item to address. Sustainability is firmly embedded in the strategy for Bauwerk Group, and the organisation demonstrates commitment and integrity across all aspects of sustainability.

Supply chain 

Supply chain management has stood out as the biggest point of interest in our materiality analysis. Bauwerk Group strives to pursue a local, eco-friendly and resource-saving purchasing policy, which is demonstrated in our report. We see the publication of our business practices and, thus, the origin of our raw materials as an integral component of achieving full transparency in reporting. This is because only a transparent guarantee of origin makes it possible to determine if we actually follow through with implementing our sustainability commitments. In this context, we are proud that we have not had to report any breaches of legal duties for 2022.

Society

We work for and with people. This steadfast principle manifests itself in how we disclose our employment practices and our particular focus on occupational safety. We are proud to have a low turnover rate, at 10.6%, and a high training rate, as we provide 10 minutes of training per week per employee. Our accident statistics and our working conditions are presented in detail. Countless certificates confirm our products are harmless for use in living spaces, which is another aspect included under this focus.

Environmental impact 

Less is more: this is particularly true in terms of our direct environmental impact, as we seek to continue using our raw materials in the future. As a manufacturer and an immediate forest consumer, we are required to consistently reduce our direct environmental impact at all of our facilities, in accordance with our ISO 14001 certification. Our constantly falling waste rate is an example of this. Our operations are free of fossil energy, and the unavoidable logistics emissions that fall outside of our control are compensated for. This strong statement is a result of using exclusively renewable power at our production sites, our own generation of solar power, and continuous monitoring of how much power we consume.


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