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Boost your supply chain credentials thanks to our new ESG award from EcoVadis

We’ve just received a glowing sustainability award from EcoVadis.


You can be sure that as our partner, you're building a sustainable supply chain assessed by the best - helping you reduce your environmental impact, improve welfare, and gain a competitive edge.

Partner with us—an industry leader outperforming 93% of specialist manufacturers in sustainability.

By receiving this prestigious ESG award, we can be sure that we’re delivering excellence – and all the associated supply chain benefits - to you.

High scores placed us in the top 35% of all companies assessed by EcoVadis in the last year, and even more impressively, in the top 7% of special equipment manufacturers. EcoVadis has worked with over 150,000 businesses worldwide assessing ESG and sustainability performance. We aligned in 2021 to help us with continuous improvement, which is one of our global business values.

Our sustainability performance has been officially recognized as ‘advanced’, with year-on-year improvements noted in all areas:

  • Environment

  • Ethics

  • Labor and Human Rights

  • Sustainable Procurement

 

Make improvements for people, the planet and your supply chain

At Norican, we’re helping to shape sustainability through leadership, influence and design. And the EcoVadis framework isn’t just about having the right policies in place, it looks at measures implemented, and actions taken. In other words – it’s about what you do as a business, not simply about what you say. 

 “To see improvement in all four assessment areas is incredibly encouraging. The global leadership team and I, want Norican to be a leading example of sustainable and ethical business practices. This latest assessment shows we are making significant progress in this mission.”

- Anders Wilhjelm, CEO of Norican

Succeeding with a global vision for sustainability 

Our EcoVadis award applies to our global operations. Every team member in every location plays a part. As an example, in the last year, our team in India has delivered on many fronts to improve how we do things. 


Renewable power

We’ve agreed a “power wheeling” deal with a 5.4MW wind farm to ensure our Tumkur manufacturing facility is powered entirely by renewables.

Treated water recycling for conservation

We’ve implemented a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) at our Tumkur plant to enhance water conservation efforts. The treated water is now utilized for gardening and toilet flushing, significantly reducing freshwater consumption. Since implementation, this initiative has helped save over 994,800 liters of water annually—that's nearly 10,000 showers.

Student engagement

We’ve continued to support local students with a dedicated student engagement and scholarship program – a program, now in its 10th year, that has helped over 4,000 students.

 

 

 

Improving your ESG performance, as we improve ours

Grzegorz Kalin-Czerski, Global Lean Champion at Norican, explains,  

"The EcoVadis framework continues to be an invaluable benchmarking platform - giving us visibility into how our sustainability and ESG performance compare with peers and the broader corporate world, and where we should look next to ensure we keep improving.

Our work focus shifts from setting corporate governance to setting and tracking the execution of sustainability targets. In this context, our efforts to set and track emissions reduction targets as part of the Science Based Targets initiative continues to drive important and necessary changes in environmental areas. Similarly, we have made progress in rolling out our sustainable procurement policy and implementing practical measures to support it, such as training and supplier audits. It’s also great to see improvements in both Labor & Human Rights and Ethics, with our HR team’s ongoing work in employee development and well-being making an impact."

At Norican, we design and build best-in-class equipment used for metal formation and surface treatment processes

We’re global manufacturers united through expertise and passion. We provide full-service customer support, and we transform production digitally. Building lifetime quality and forming lifetime partnerships, we combine the strengths of our legacy brands. And together, we lead by innovation. We exist to empower production capacity and to deliver sustainable excellence and profit for the future of our industry.

You can be sure that as our partner, you're building a sustainable supply chain assessed by the best - helping you reduce your environmental impact, improve welfare, and gain a competitive edge.

You can learn more about how you can improve your supply chain ESG credentials by working with Norican here.

Visit our contacts page to connect with our team. 

[1] Build a More Sustainable, Resilient Supply Chain. IBM. https://www.ibm.com/resources/business-operations/supply-chain-sustainability

[2] Sustainable Supply Chain Survey 2024. Deloitte. https://www2.deloitte.com/cz/en/pages/strategy-operations/articles/sustainable-supply-chain-survey.html

[3] How Sustainable Supply Chains Are Driving Business Transformation. EY. https://www.ey.com/en_uk/insights/supply-chain/supply-chain-sustainability-2022