CSR Report 2019-2019

Owners’ Considerations... In the financial year 2018/19 we have once again launched improvements, which we have focused our efforts on and have managed to implement succes- fully. With the decision to continue implementation of the switch to LED lighting in the remaining parts of our production facilities and administration, we have succeeded in meeting our target for 2018 in re- lation to reducing our electricity consumption. Thus, over a time period of two years we have suc- ceeded in reducing electricity consumption by 12.5% and reducing the overall CO2 footprint. Climate imprint has become a major part of the poli- tical agenda, and we are proud to contribute to more climate-friendly production, while also contributing to energy-efficient products to reduce heat costs and CO2 imprint for our end customers. Our efforts to educate apprentices continue to be a challenge in terms of attracting them, especially to lesser known educational directions (eg machine carpenters). But the effort is important to secure the necessary competencies in the company, and supports the co-responsibility we have, in order to educate skilled people within our own industry. In terms of the total number of apprentices, we are still far ahead of our target, and in 2018 we achieved almost twice as high an ”apprentice score” as our goal. This means that for the year we have received a bonus for our apprenticeship work. In general, continuing training of our employees has been a focus area for a number of years. It is therefore with pride that in the spring of 2019 we received the ”Danish Business School and College continuing education award” for this effort. Mikael & Martin Søgaard