The protection of the environment is of central importance to us and part of our corporate responsibility. It makes an important contribution to the company’s success. We have derived the following Environmental Protection principles from our strategy and management policy.

1) We look at the environmental aspects throughout the product life cycle.

2) We involve our employees in environmental protection and expect environmentally conscious
behavior. We support our managers and employees in the fulfillment of their responsibility in
environmental protection and enable professional qualification. Environmental protection is an
essential part of the management task. The managers support the implementation personally and
actively.

3) We seek to agree on these guidelines in the Partner, Supplier and Customer Agreements.

4) Through rapid, systematic and system-based incident reporting, we enable sound analysis and
derive improvements from it.

5) Based on opportunities and risks, the needs of our interested parties and regular audits, we
continuously develop our environmental management system, including related compliance
aspects.

6) We consider the protection of the environment as early as possible in our planning and decisionmaking processes and promote preventive measures to reduce environmental impact. Based on
best practices, incidents and new technologies, we increase environmental protection and
continuously optimize our processes to reduce resource consumption.

7) We evaluate the environmental aspects of our activities, products and services and introduce
measures to prevent and reduce environmental impact. To this end, we develop consumption and
emission-efficient products and services and strive to use environmentally compatible materials
during product manufacture.

8) We design, build and operate buildings and infrastructures to minimize the impact on the
environment. The use of energy and water, the use of hazardous substances and solvents as well
as the generation of wastewater, waste, emissions and noise are given special consideration.

1) to understand and exceed customer expectations. We always act in the interests of our customers
and as a reliable partner. We regularly conduct a customer satisfaction survey and implement the
improvement measures derived from this on a sustainable basis.

2) to continuously determine the qualifications of our employees and to ensure these by targeted
training and further education. All of our employees determine the quality and success of our
performance. The managers support the implementation personally and actively.

3) select and develop suppliers according to defined quality criteria. We maintain a relationship based
on partnership with our suppliers and support them in ensuring sustainable solution concepts and
working conditions compliant with our values.

4) to investigate new technologies and apply them to our solutions. We use digitization technologies
to increase efficiency, avoid failures and to analyze technical systems in a holistic manner.

5) to check the effectiveness of the quality management system through regular reviews. We meet the
requirements of the international standard DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 by operating a certified
management system. The needs and expectations of our interested parties, as well as the
evaluation of the corporate risks and opportunities, are embedded in our processes.

6) to ensure a continuous improvement process over the entire product lifecycle proactively and
reactively. We call for and promote preventive measures for quality assurance. We deal with failures
openly and support measures to quickly stop and avoid errors and risks.

7) We prioritize our actions as follows: 1. Safety | 2. Quality | 3. Time | 4. Costs