Sustainability that shapes the future

Our commitment to the fight against poverty is reflected in our support for local and global social projects. We are committed to fair wages in order to improve the living conditions of all, and the workshops for disabled people in the region have valued us as a reliable partner and customer for many years. We ensure compliance with the supplier guidelines through suitable measures such as regular supplier audits.

By paying fair wages at sukigroup and in our value chain, we help to ensure that no one goes hungry. Everyone deserves access to sufficient and nutritious food, and we insist that our global suppliers pay wages that are at least equal to the legal minimum wage, cover basic needs and ensure a decent standard of living for employees.

The health of our employees and communities is important to us. We promote active health measures and set standards for safety and well-being in the workplace.our products comply with legal requirements such as the REACH regulation or the relevant product safety regulations. We monitor product conformity in our own laboratories and with recognized service providers (VPA, TÜV, SGS, Eurofins, etc.) We are committed to health in the workplace, both for our own employees and for the employees of our suppliers. At our sites, we support our colleagues through health-promoting measures in the workplace (AOK) or, increasingly, through ergonomic workstations in offices and logistics.we demand consistent health protection for our employees from our suppliers. We audit our suppliers on a regular basis.

Education opens doors. That's why we have been offering a wide range of training and further education programs for decades and promoting dual study programs to give young people a variety of opportunities for the future.we take great care to ensure that no child labour takes place in our supply chain.

We are committed to gender equality. Diversity and inclusion are cornerstones of our corporate culture and our decision-making processes, and the sukigroup values that guide us in our daily work clearly express this basic attitude. we prohibit our suppliers and business partners from treating employees unequally in any form.

Access to clean water and sanitary facilities is a human right. Accordingly, we ensure that our partners provide their employees with access to water and suitable sanitary facilities.

Switching to renewable energy sources and increasing our energy efficiency are central pillars of our sustainability strategy in order to make a positive contribution to climate protection. By consistently using LED technology, adjusting shift times and purchasing energy-efficient devices, we have been able to reduce our electricity consumption by around a third. In addition, we have been using only certified green electricity at our logistics site and headquarters in Landscheid for several years, and we have been able to reduce our heating energy consumption by around a third through various measures such as thermal insulation, intelligent temperature controls and selective temperature reductions. Since 2023, we have covered the remaining heating requirements by connecting to a sustainable local heating network.

We promote decent working conditions, support fair pay and ethical business practices. Our goal is to promote sustainable economic growth that benefits everyone. In our dealings with our employees and business partners, we are guided by our sukigroup corporate guidelines and our values.

Our investments in modern, sustainable technologies and infrastructures drive innovation and strengthen the industry for a sustainable future, and together with our partners at VTF, we have brought the production of high-quality wood construction screws back to Europe, strengthening industrial value creation in our region and avoiding unnecessary CO2 emissions.

We are working to reduce inequalities within and outside our company. Promoting equal opportunities and inclusion is at the heart of everything we do.

With initiatives for electromobility and support for home charging of vehicles, we are contributing to more sustainable cities and communities in which quality of life and environmental protection go hand in hand. In addition, we will continuously increase the proportion of post-consumer recyclate in our packaging over the next few years. In this way, we are helping to ensure that packaging is recycled and does not end up in the environment.

We are committed to sustainable consumption and environmentally friendly value creation in many ways. Our company suki. is certified to ISO 50001, an international standard for energy management. This certification ensures that energy efficiency is permanently on our agenda. Specifically, we have been heating our site in Landscheid completely sustainably via a local heating connection since the beginning of 2024. Other measures include the switch to paperless picking in our logistics, the switch to digital document exchange with our business partners and the replacement of all light sources with economical LED technology, which we systematically implemented several years ago.we are continuously improving our products and working to reduce our environmental footprint. For example, our yellow passivated performance screws are manufactured without the use of chrome VI, and our packaging is generally easy to recycle. We will continuously increase the use of recycled raw materials in the coming years.

Through targeted measures such as the promotion of e-mobility and participation in climate protection projects, we are actively committed to protecting our planet and reducing CO2 emissions.for years, we have been sourcing electricity from certified sustainable sources, offsetting CO2 emissions generated during the printing of our packaging and reducing our CO2 footprint by using FSC-certified cardboard packaging that ensures sustainable forestry and contains a high proportion of recycled base materials.we are currently preparing our CO2 balance sheet in order to actively work on reducing our CO2 footprint in the coming years. We are a member of Make it Zero, Scope 3 emissions initiative by the DIY sector, developed by EDRA/GHIN (European DIY Retailers Association and the Global Home Improvement Network).

Protecting the oceans and marine habitats is important to us. We reduce our packaging to avoid unnecessary waste. We also design our packaging in such a way that it can be easily recycled. For us, the circular economy is more than just a buzzword: we already use recycled materials in our packaging and will continuously increase the proportion of post-consumer recyclate in the coming years.

The preservation of biodiversity and sustainable land use are crucial for the future of our planet. We are committed to protecting natural habitats through FSC certification and other measures, such as our collaboration with “Plant for the Planet”.

Our contribution to a fairer world includes compliance with ethical standards and the promotion of transparency and integrity.we not only commit ourselves and our suppliers to complying with the law, but also take responsibility for implementing the standards we have set ourselves. We summarize the most important basic rules and principles in our Business Code of Conduct. It provides a binding description of the values we share and gives us a goal that we must achieve in order to ensure the long-term success of our company. Our memberships of Amfori BSCI and SEDEX and our systematic supplier evaluation with Ecovadis are an expression of our efforts.

By working with global partners and initiatives, we are strengthening our commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and promoting sustainable development worldwide. For example, our company suki. is a member of Amfori BSCI, whose Code of Conduct is based on the conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Global Compact and the OECD guidelines.