Company Name: Flender Ltd., China
Award Category: ESG Performance
Company Size: Medium-sized Enterprise Group
Environment
Climate Change:
In 2020, Flender is committed to becoming CO2 neutral by 2030 based on reducing our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions and carbon neutral on 2050. It is an integral part of Flender’s first CSR strategy pillar, “Sustainability”.
Natural Resources and Energy:
Energy Conversion and Utilization in Flender
As a manufacturing company, Flender has high demand of electricity, but reduce related carbon emissions by deploying renewable energy source and enhance energy efficiency. Since 2019, we have reduced carbon emissions by 17,686 ton /year through technology innovations such as updating the lighting system, establish heat recycle system, and use low-energy-consuming equipment. Photovoltaic power generation system on the roof generates 1,523 MWh/year, reducing carbon emissions by 1,347 ton. In addition, Flender is not only purchasing international green power certificates to offset carbon emissions, but is also planning larger-scale photovoltaic power generation projects and wind power generation projects to increase the proportion of renewable energy.
Prevention of Pollution:
Flender has a systematic management for wastes in the operation. Since 2019, waste classification has been implemented in office areas. Related trainings has been conducted and encourage employees to submit suggestions for further improvement.
Social
HR Development and Engagement:
Health and safety first @ Flender
At Flender, we see our employees as our most important asset. Safe jobs, avoiding accidents at work and promoting the health of our employees are our priority. Flender has established a comprehensive and effective EHS management system with a health and safety culture of "employee participation" and "mutual care".
Case 1: Set up EHS (Environment, Health and Saty) intranet. It covers EHS laws and regulations, trending news, safety moments, EHS performance and EHS training for employees to review and learn.
Case 2: Perform root-cause analysis for incidents occurred in the past 20 years and compile a handbook of FLC's safety cases, which are distributed to employees for learning.
Case 3: Flender held regular "Zero-Harm-Culture-Team-Award" and “Safety Month” to enhance the "Zero Harm Culture" and build a zero-harm fortress together.
Case 4: All employees can use the 3i ideas management system to document and report unsafe points and submit suggestions for improvement on the topic, which will be awarded and follow -up action will be taken until solved.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:
Women@Flender
Flender focuses on women's rights and development, providing equal opportunity of career advancement to female employees without. Currently, more than 10% of middle and senior management team are women. The company has several policies and activities to care for female employees, creating a comfortable working environment and space for female employees to expand their careers.
Flender offers female employee marriage and parental leave along Flexible lactation leaves policy and lactation rooms maximize the convenience for female employees with child(ren). Additional commercial insurance for children and other welfare program are provided. Also regular youth health and psychology seminars can scientifically guide and release the pressure of family education for women employee.
The company adopts a "zero-tolerance" attitude towards any sexual harassment incidents, related policy and trainings are available. Women's Day activities provide official platform for female employees to voice their opinions collectively. Yoga clubs and women's health checkups allow female employees to pay attention to physical health.
Product Liability:
公司具备完善的质量管理体系进行产品安全与质量监控（包括质量管理手册，标准流程文件，作业指导书等等）公司定义了质量管理者代表作为产品安全责任者, 并在各个部门设置了质量管理体系协调员。影响产品安全的特性记录在产品技术文件中，例如图纸、技术交付条件和测试规范。
公司通过了ISO 9001认证，并以其为标准不断完善我们的质量管理体系。公司具备具体的流程去跟踪客户反馈/投诉并实施相应的改善。
Supply Chain:
供应链ESG战略, 包括但不限于如下：
大众汽车集团可持续发展评级（Sustainability Rating, 简称S-rating）系统，包括对供应商的选择，评估，培训等。
大众要求供应商遵循《商业合作伙伴行为规范》
“低碳未来”，集团2050年之前实现全产品生命周期碳中和
举报系统，报告违反可持续性要求的行为
供应商选择和评估机制:可持续发展评级系统，负责对供应商进行筛选和评估。
供应商培训：我们为供应商提供定期培训计划
In Flender, we aims to build up a responsible supply chain with more transparency and accountability, make a valuable contribution to respecting and protecting human
rights and protecting the environment.
To achieve this goal, supplier assessment process includes two key requirements, signing Code of Conduct that committing to operating their businesses in a responsible and sustainable way, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The 2nd one is complete a Corporate Responsibility Self Assessment, covering main topics of legal compliance and fair operating, human rights and labor, health and safety of employees and environmental management. In addition, Flender has initiated a Supplier Emissions Transparency Program initially focusing 80% of Flender Scope 3 carbon footprint, to obtain primary emission data and enlarge the coverage step by step. Related training has been conducted. In-person introduction has been conducted via supplier day in 2023.
Community Engagement:
Power for the future- Fender Young Talent Program
As a responsible foreign invested enterprise, Flender is making efforts for the industry development by recruiting and training young talents through various method.
Flender organizes campus recruitment every year, provides attractive salaries and benefits program, realistic career development and thorough trainings. Especially for engineers, Flender offers clear career development plan, one-on-one mentorship , engineer exchange meetings and oversea trainings. Those are aiming to attract college graduates to join Flender and be trained to be a qualified engineers with innovative spirit and international vision who can contribute industrial development as a force of young generation.
To provide more practice opportunities, Flender actively carries out school-enterprise cooperation, setting up science laboratory and scholarships, organizing filed trips and exchanging visits, and offering internship program. In addition, Flender cooperates with international schools to carry out career fairs, psychological dialogues and other interactive activities.
Corporate Governance
Governance Organizational and Mechanism:
”Tell Us” Whistleblowing system of Flender
Flender has always taken a "zero-tolerance" attitude towards compliance. Therefore, Flender has established comprehensive whistleblowing system-Tell-Us.
The "Tell-Us" system ensures that Flender always complies with laws, regulations and industry standards, and meets the compliance requirements in all aspects of operation and governance. Through automated data collection and analysis, "Tell-Us" allows our company to identify and dispose compliance risks in a timely manner. In addition, Tell-Us provides a transparent and traceable framework to keep a fair and open compliance management process, as well as keep transparency to internal management and external stakeholders.
The "Tell-Us" whistleblowing system fully demonstrates that Flender attached great importance to governance, which is exerting great impact to company's sustainable development and society.
No comprise- Flender business Conduct Guidelines
Flender strives to be an optimal partner in sustainable development and follows the highest ethical and moral standards in all operations. Flender Business Conduct Guidelines (BCG) provides a binding guideline for employees, which includes, but not limited to, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, anti-monopoly, privacy protection, export control, human rights and criminal misconduct.
Flender conducts regular compliance training for all employees on all aspects, as well as prescribing a code of conduct for business partners. We have a rigorous evaluation process for new suppliers— CRSA and require all suppliers to sign the CoC. Regular auditing are conducted to ensure the standards.
Innovation Sustainability:
The Road of Packaging Innovation in the Heavy Industry —The exploration and practice of lightweight and recyclable
With the “sustainable development” as the strategic orientation, Flender has actively launched sustainable packaging design for our product portfolio. Under the principle of 4R1D (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Degradable), we have made continuous efforts to promote environment-friendly solutions featuring lightweight, low-carbon, environment-friendly and recycling. Flender has upgraded packaging materials from wooden boxes to cardboard boxes for light-weight products, from wooden pallets to iron pallets for heavy-weight products, reducing the consumption of wood and using recycling material. Flender keeps monitoring new technologies for packing and welcome packing innovation.
Extra Points
ESG / Sustainability / CSR reports, e.g.:
Sustainability report
flender.com/en/company/sustainability
ESG rating, e.g. EcoVadis, MSCI:
MSCI
ESG Verification or Certification:
绿色工厂名单
Responsive to or engaged in ESG Initiatives / Standards / Goals:
Responsive to or engaged in ESG Initiatives
