EcoVadis is one of the world’s most trusted providers of business sustainability ratings, intelligence, and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains. The methodology used by EcoVadis is based on international sustainability standards and supervised by a scientific community of sustainability and supply chain experts. EcoVadis looks at how companies implement sustainability across their supply chain.
“We are proud to have been awarded the EcoVadis gold medal. This confirms that we have the ability, the capacity, and the commitment to handle a broad range of sustainability aspects. The fact that we are now improving our last year’s silver rating to a gold medal also shows that we are committed and constantly looking for how to improve our work within sustainability,” says Johnny Ulander, Sustainability Manager at Alleima.
“EcoVadis is an important tool for us when evaluating sustainability aspects among suppliers in the value chain. Our gold medal provides an opportunity for our customers to evaluate us in the same way,” says Håkan Sundström, Head of Sustainability and Governance at Alleima.
Alleima has a relatively low climate footprint from operations due to the use of recycled steel (~83%) and fossil-free electricity in production facilities and is committed to minimizing its social and environmental impact through reducing its water usage, careful chemical management, and effective use of by-products such as slag, dust, and process gases.
EcoVadis rates performance of 21 sustainability criteria, in four themes: environment, labor & human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement. It is based on leading standards, and it is supervised by an international scientific committee. The scoring is based on the company’s policies, actions and results, as well as inputs from third-party professionals and external stakeholders.
Some highlights from the report
- Alleima is in the top 2% of companies rated by EcoVadis in the manufacture of basic iron and steel industry.
- In sustainable procurement, Alleima ranks in the top 1% of companies in our industry.
- Alleima’s environmental score is in the top 8% in the industry.
- In labor & human rights, score is in the top 11% in the industry
- For ethics, including information security, Alleima ranks in the top 8% in the industry.
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EcoVadis is one of the world’s most trusted providers of business sustainability ratings, intelligence, and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains. Backed by a powerful technology platform and a global team of domain experts, EcoVadis’ easy-to-use and actionable sustainability scorecards provide detailed insight into environmental, social, and ethical risks across 220+ industries and 180+ countries.