Corporate Social Responsibility
As an enterprise with a high sense of responsibility and management ability, we are committed to our social responsibilities. By acting in an economically, environmentally and socially responsible manner, we aim to improve people’s quality of life and protect the livelihoods of current and future generations. Our activities support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015. We regularly compare them with our sustainability activities to see where we as a company can make a concrete contribution to each SDG.
We actively invest in our employees’ health
- Company health management (nutrition, exercise, screening) in cooperation with the Barmer health insurance company
- Job bike leasing programme for all employees
- Guided “active break” in cooperation with a physiotherapy centre
- Catering with fresh organic fruit from a local organic food delivery service
- Continuous improvement of work processes and the working environment with regard to ergonomics
- Regular safety briefings to prevent accidents at work
- Free use of the local tennis court
- Free entry to the local outdoor pool
- Water dispensers with a tap connection provide environmentally friendly refreshment at all times
We actively promote the development of our employees
- Regular training courses via the online and offline training
- Regular product training by our product management team
- Support for external training and development
- Half-yearly employee appraisals to identify development potential
- Employee app “we chat”, as a platform for internal communication to keep all employees equally informed, share knowledge and develop new ideas
We contribute to the development of renewable energy sources
- With our own photovoltaic system, which covers a large part of our energy needs, we are actively contributing to the development of renewable energies and the reduction of CO₂ emissions
Contribution to sustainable development from the perspective of our products
- Our products are REACH compliant: The substances contained in our products do not adversely affect human health or the environment
- Our products are RoHS-compliant: The RoHS Directive controls and restricts the use of environmentally harmful substances in electrical and electronic equipment that are difficult to dispose of
- We have a sustainable supply chain: We source around 95% of our goods from from suppliers in the immediate vicinity. This allows us to reduce CO₂ emissions and minimise our carbon footprint
- ZG is ISO 9001 certified: our customers benefit from consistently high product and service quality as well as a long product and service life
- The use of our products in machines, systems and control cabinets effectively protects them against malfunctions and thus contributes to their maintenance and thus to a long service life and useful life