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Corporate Responsibility

Our corporate responsibility

CLAGE has recognized its responsibility to make a positive contribution to ensuring a future worth living for generations to come. Our focus here is on protecting the climate and the environment, which is also reflected in the energy-efficient and water-saving technology of our electric instantaneous water heaters. <br><br> For us, sustainability means making economic decisions based on ecological and social aspects and continuously improving ourselves. This enables us to be successful in the long term and at the same time make a positive contribution to people and the environment. <br><br> As a modern industrial company, reliability, fairness and responsible action are key components of our business success. We produce in Germany and act sustainably, ethically and socially.

CLAGE has recognized its responsibility to make a positive contribution to ensuring a future worth living for generations to come. Our focus here is on protecting the climate and the environment, which is also reflected in the energy-efficient and water-saving technology of our electric instantaneous water heaters.

For us, sustainability means making economic decisions based on ecological and social aspects and continuously improving ourselves. This enables us to be successful in the long term and at the same time make a positive contribution to people and the environment.

As a modern industrial company, reliability, fairness and responsible action are key components of our business success. We produce in Germany and act sustainably, ethically and socially.

Joachim and Jörg Gerdes
(Managing Partners of CLAGE GmbH)

How do we fulfill our responsibility?

In order to fulfill our corporate responsibility, we consider the three areas of environment, social issues and governance simultaneously and do our best every day to reconcile the sometimes different interests in terms of sustainability.

Find out more about our areas of responsibility in the following sections:

1. Environment Our contribution to environmental and climate protection
2. Social Our promotion of social issues in our own workforce, value chain and society
3. Governance Our measures for legally compliant, sustainable corporate governance

In future, the European Commission will also require the reporting of such ESG information as part of the European Sustainability Reporting Standard (ESRS).

In addition, our sustainability performance has been externally audited and assessed by EcoVadis since 2022.

1. Environment

Our primary goal with regard to the environment is to take all reasonable and feasible measures to achieve climate neutrality according to Scope 1 to 3 by 2030.

We calculate our greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard. We have been calculating our Scope 1 and 2 emissions since 2015 and have been actively working on reducing them ever since. In future, data on Scope 3 emissions will also be collected and integrated here in order to derive further measures to reduce our carbon footprint.

In order to achieve our climate neutrality target, the avoidance and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is our top priority. Thanks to various measures, we have been able to reduce our Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 61% since 2015. As a result, we only emit around 0.8 kg of CO2 per device produced and employee.

Since 2020, we have also been offsetting all remaining emissions through climate protection projects certified in accordance with the Gold Standard, which is why we can officially describe our appliance production as climate-neutral. Through the selected projects, we contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and preserving biodiversity.

Many small building blocks for a big goal. A selection of our measures to avoid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  1. Development with foresight

    We strive to develop repairable and recyclable devices with a low carbon footprint in order to conserve resources in the long term.

  2. Energy-saving technology

    Many of our instantaneous water heaters are equipped with an efficient energy-saving mode and also have a class A energy label.

  3. 100% renewable electricity

    The entire company (including production) has been powered by green electricity since 2019, resulting in no greenhouse gas emissions.

  4. Electromobility

    Since 2016, the fleet has been gradually converted to electric or hybrid vehicles. Such vehicles currently make up 43% of the fleet.

  5. Environmentally friendly packaging

    Appliance cartons with single-color flexographic printing without offset paper and inserts with 30% grass content conserve valuable natural resources.

  6. Climate-neutral parcel shipping

    We have been sending our parcels via GLS climate-neutral shipping since 2019, which means that 60% of our shipments are climate-neutral.

  7. Pallet packaging without film

    The use of reusable rubber pallet straps saves over 67 km of plastic film every year.

  8. Environmentally friendly advertising material

    For printed matter and advertising materials, attention is paid to environmentally friendly and certified alternatives.

  9. LED lighting

    Almost all conventional light sources in the company (including production) have been replaced by LED technology.

  10. Paper saving

    The high degree of digitization in the company avoids a lot of paper waste.

  11. Electric screwdriver

    In production, compressed air screwdrivers are being replaced by more economical electric screwdrivers.

  12. Water system for employees

    No crates, no logistics and no plastic bottles thanks to the Zip HydroTap water system. This saves resources and greenhouse gas emissions.

Downloads on the topic

PCF brochure (CO2 footprint/ Product Carbon Footprint) > download (PDF, 6.7 MB)

2. Social

Own workforce

Own workforce

In terms of social issues, the promotion and protection of our own workforce is our top priority. We have summarized our efforts in this regard as well as some benefits for employees in the section Working at CLAGE.

Suppliers

In addition to our own workforce, we also ensure good working conditions for the other workers in our value chain. We ensure this above all by sourcing almost exclusively from suppliers in Europe, many of whom are even based in Germany themselves. Like us, these companies are bound by strict laws regarding, for example, remuneration, working hours or child, forced and illegal labor.

Our customers

We also protect our customers by ensuring the highest level of quality with regard to our products and by providing high-quality information via our website, advertising materials and social media profiles.

Regional commitment

We are also involved in the local community by supporting the Luhmühlen equestrian sport and the volleyball Bundesliga team, SVG Lüneburg. As our day-to-day work revolves around water and we are committed to ensuring secure access to this vital resource worldwide, we also support the Viva con Agua association in international projects.

3. Governance

Our corporate processes in the areas of quality, environmental and energy management are certified in accordance with the high requirements of the internationally applicable DIN EN ISO 9001, 14001 and 50001 standards.

In this context, we are regularly audited and also carry out internal audits in order to take a holistic view of our operational processes, analyze them and continuously improve them.

  1. Guidelines

    The guidelines derived from the standards accompany us in our day-to-day work, which is therefore also a central component of our employees' training

    https://www.clage.com/en/company/guidelines

  2. Data protection

    With regard to data protection, we comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For the greatest possible data security, the data is stored at our location in Germany on several independent servers

    https://www.clage.com/en/data-privacy

  3. Whistleblower

    In order to also protect potential internal and external whistleblowers, we have set up the easyline contact option for their concerns. This system complies with the requirements of the EU Whistleblowing Directive and the German Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG) and can be used anonymously

    https://clage.ck-easyline.de/en/

  4. Code of Conduct

    We work with a code of conduct to safeguard business relationships with our partners such as customers, suppliers and service providers. This stipulates compliance with basic laws as well as aspects relating to environmental protection and working conditions and must be signed by both parties.

Read the full version in our Mediacenter under "Legal information".