Sustainability
Our vision for 2035

We are committed to respecting the circular economy in order to reduce the negative impacts of materials and products throughout their lifecycle. Our goal is to transform our entire value chain into a loop that is as closed as possible.

To achieve this, we choose durable and recyclable materials from responsible sources, process and store them with care, and put them back into circulation via proper disposal or repurposing.

Resources and choice of materials

⇒ By 2025, we will reduce our resource consumption by five percent in relation to 2022.

⇒ By 2025, we will use only materials that have been awarded a sustainability label or certificate.

To achieve this, we are continuously increasing the proportion of rental material in our projects, use only durable materials with sustainability certification and opt for larger quantities of secondary materials. By using modern, efficient production facilities, we can reduce the consumption of resources in manufacturing.

Procurement

⇒ By 2025, we will review our most important suppliers on the basis of sustainability criteria.

⇒ By 2025, our suppliers will be informed about Messerli’s commitment to sustainability.

The criterion of «environmental awareness» is given a strategically important role in the procurement process. When selecting products and services, we demand appropriate consideration of issues such as recycling, disposal, packaging and transport, and are establishing transparency in this regard.

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Storage

⇒ When it comes to storage, we conserve resources thanks to organisational and structural measures.

By centralising our warehousing processes in our modern logistics centre in Wil ZH, we can reduce storage and site costs and ensure shorter transport routes. We can reduce the error and damage rate by using modern logistics systems. The warehouse building is structurally designed for sustainable use of resources.

Disposal

⇒ By 2025, we will reduce the total amount of waste by five percent and increase the proportion of recyclable waste by 15 percent in relation to 2022.

We extend the lifecycle of products by consistently pursuing a strategy of reuse (renting instead of buying). At the end of the service life of an item, we separate the various waste products and recycle or dispose of them properly so that raw materials remain in circulation for as long as possible.

The provision of useful energy causes emissions that are harmful to the climate. Messerli is promoting the expansion of renewable energy produced internally and is striving to reduce its own energy consumption. To this end, we are also investing in facilities and building management that prioritise the areas of energy and the climate.

⇒ By 2025, we will reduce our consumption of electricity and fuel, as well as heating and cooling energy, by 15 percent.

⇒ By 2025, we will expand the proportion of renewable electricity sources at various locations:

→ By 2025, the Wetzikon production plant will cover 60 percent of its electricity needs with its own PV system

We are expanding the proportion of renewable electricity sources by equipping several sites with photovoltaic systems. We are replacing fossil fuels by installing heat pumps. We are consistently replacing all light sources – both in our own buildings and those used in projects – with LED technology. Modern production facilities allow us to work more energy efficiently.

The safety of our employees is of great concern to us. We are actively increasing the safety of their everyday work, thereby reducing the number of accidents and sick days.

⇒ By 2025, we will reduce accidents by 20 percent.

⇒ By 2025, we aim to reduce sick days by 200 days.

To help us to achieve these goals, we are developing a comprehensive safety mission statement and appointing a safety officer. The safety officer will ensure the integration of all defined safety measures into the operational safety system. We continuously review the hazard situation within the company and adapt the measures to any newly identified risks.

We ensure that all work equipment is safe, regularly inspected and repaired as ­required. At the same time, we systematically train all employees (including temporary ones) in the area of safety. This enables us to achieve a continuous improvement in work ethics and in the corporate safety culture.

We attach great importance to the personal development of our employees and to the enhancement of their expertise. In addition to voluntary training, we provide our employees with targeted training on relevant issues.

⇒ By 2025, we will increase the number of professional training and further education courses by 1,000 percent.

The subject of training and continuing education is an integral part of our employees’ performance appraisals and personal career development. We develop targeted skill enhancement programmes in areas such as digitalisation, sustainability, data protection, fire prevention and occupational safety, and gender equality.

Messerli maintains transparent and open communication with its most important stakeholders. Our employees are our most important dialogue group. We provide them with all relevant and up-to-date information, strive to keep communication channels open and take their input into account in our planning process. We regularly inform external dialogue groups about current developments and topics. Communication on Messerli’s sustainable commitment is a high priority.

⇒ We aim to maintain regular communication with our key stakeholders to ­increase transparency even further.

⇒ From 2025 at the latest, we will produce a quantitative sustainability report to monitor and compare environmental and climate impact at Messerli.

⇒ Messerli will publish a qualitative sustainability report in accordance with the international standard (GRI) for the first time in 2026.

⇒ By 2025, we will develop our own sustainability label to illustrate the ecological impact of our products and services more transparently.

Messerli’s own established means of communication keeps us in touch with our internal and external dialogue groups. Our main publication channels are the company website with its own blog, the newsletter, our customer magazine Brandworld and Messerli’s social media channels. The intranet is the central source of information for employees. To communicate information on the topic of sustainability, we are developing new means of communication that will become an integral part of our communication strategy and topic planning.

Corruption causes high financial damage in companies every year. That is why we demand and promote transparent and lawful conduct of all company business with zero tolerance for corruption. Our anti-corruption and anti-bribery principles are defined in the Code of Conduct that applies throughout the Group.

⇒ We uncompromisingly uphold the principle of zero corruption within the Messerli Group.

⇒ By the end of 2023, all employees will have been informed about our ­anti-corruption policy.

⇒ From 2023 onwards, we will regularly raise awareness among our employees by organising further training on the topic.

This basic framework will enable us to create certainty in relation to the issue, to build up trust and to establish long-term business relationships. The Code of Conduct for the prevention of corruption is binding for all employees. We are creating a central point of contact to answer questions about compliance and developing a reporting system for suspected cases of corruption. Thanks to these measures, we will continue to ensure that corruption has no place in our company.

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