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Our SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations)
Ultimately, Tessenderlo Group selected the following ten SDGs out of the 17 Goals:
2. ZERO HUNGER – Achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture. This is realized via our activities in Agro, Bio-valorization, and Industrial Solutions, with
a focus on water. Our contribution to target 2.1 is to reduce hunger and increase access to safe,
nutritious, and sufficient food all year round.
3. GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Tessenderlo Group takes health and safety very seriously and this is rated with the highest score
in our materiality matrix. We want to make sure that our people leave our factories and offices in
the same health condition as when they arrived. We have already tracked and monitored relevant
data related to this topic for a long time. We also steer on health and safety through our KPIs
linked to remuneration. Our Safety and Health policy clearly expresses the importance we as a
group place on this subject.
4. QUALITY EDUCATION – Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong
learning opportunities for all. In order to boost employee motivation, this is also referenced in
our materiality matrix and training sessions are very important. We are now building in LMS (our
learning management system) several programs that are also related to training sessions and are
linked with curricula according to each function, as well as being aligned with our Learning &
Development policy.
6. CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION – Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and
sanitation for all. Through our DYKA Group activities, which are linked to water management
systems and the work of Kuhlmann Europe, we are active in water treatment, and this can be
linked to targets 6.1 and 6.2: achieving universal and equitable access to safe and affordable
drinking water and increase water-use efficiency and ensure sustainable withdrawals and the
supply of freshwater to address water scarcity.
8. DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH – Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable
economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. Tessenderlo Group is
focusing on the following targets, which are also expressed via the policies we have in this context:
Labor & Human rights, Diversity & Inclusion, our Code of Conduct, and the Supplier Code of
Conduct.
9. INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE – Build resilient infrastructure, promote
inclusive and sustainable industrialization. DYKA Group’s activities in piping for buildings and
infrastructure, and also irrigation and sustainable water management, which are driven by
innovation, support target 9.1. This is realized by developing quality, reliable, sustainable, and
resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic
development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access. They also
support 9.4 by upgrading infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them more sustainable,
with increased resource-use efficiency and the greater adoption of clean and environmentally
sound technologies and industrial processes.
10. REDUCED INEQUALITIES – Reduced inequality within and among countries. Tessenderlo Group
contributes by empowering and promoting the social, economic, and political inclusion of all,
irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
(10.2). Our approach is also supported by our Code of Conduct and our Diversity & Inclusion
policy.