This way, we define the conservation of resources as a basic principle of the service to our clients. In this spirit, we develop our high sustainability standards even further. Because those bring about continuous improvements for people and environment. For us, green logistics and social responsibility are not only nice to have but common practice.
Our company’s overriding goal is to remain sustainably fit for the future. To this end, we have set ourselves critical sub-goals at all levels of corporate responsibility:
For us, well-trained and qualified employees are the key to success. That is why we aim to prepare each employee optimally for their job by means of learning and development programmes, to equip them with the necessary knowledge at all times and thus to enable them optimally for their task. Therefore, we focus on the optimal training and empowerment of our employees.
Through the targeted implementation of digital tools, processes and platforms, we maximise resource efficiency and set a sustainable example for the future.
We provide our employees with a healthy and safe working environment. Therefore, we are reducing the thousand-man-quota (TMQ) by at least one point per year until 2030.
In the procurement process, we not only consider economic, technical and process-related criteria. This means that sustainability is an equally important decision-making feature in the procurement process for all indirect goods and services.
We are reducing CO2 emissions from our real estate by 40% by 2030. Furthermore, we will achieve complete greenhouse neutrality by 2045.
We are reducing our transport-related CO2 emissions by 40% by 2030. Furthermore, we will achieve complete greenhouse neutrality by 2045.
Nagel-Group is a reliable partner with integrity for its stakeholders, which is the basis for long-term, successful and sustainable partnerships. Our slogan "Connecting the world of food" underlines our connecting function in supply chains and enables the necessary transformation (e.g. through exchange of knowledge, expertise, technology) towards a shared more sustainable future. Thus, we are open for joint sustainability projects with customers and service providers.
One of our short-term sub-targets in the area of the environment is that 10% of all Nagel-Group company cars should be electric by the end of Q2/2023. We have been able to achieve this sub-target in full. By the end of 2024, we want to increase the electric share of Nagel-Group company cars to 30%.
The implementation of the Nagel Online Campus was completed at all German locations in August 2022, ahead of the target implementation date (end of 2022). The connection of the national subsidiary in Austria – Nagel Austria – was planned for 2023 and could already be implemented ahead of schedule. The national companies that are not yet connected will follow successively.
We aim to achieve an EBIT margin of more than 4 % every year. In 2020 and 2021, we achieved this target. In 2022, we were not able to achieve this target in full.
Nagel-Group was the first logistics company to be certified with the ZNU ‘Sustainable Management’ standard in 2017. ZNU is an application-oriented research institute of the University of Witten/Herdecke.
Our participation in the Lean&Green GS1 initiative once again underlines our company’s commitment to the environment. As a member of the non-profit initiative, we are committed to reducing logistics-related CO2 emissions by at least 20% within five years. Our action plan to achieve this goal has been reviewed and verified by TÜV-Nord. Nagel-Group was awarded the Lean&Green Star in October 2020 for its commitment to the environment.
Nagel-Group is certified by certification company GUTcert in accordance with the latest energy management standard, ISO 50001:2018. Nagel-Group has optimised its energy management in a complex process with a view to the future to achieve this standard.
Our website is climate neutral: www.climatepartner.com/17249-2109-1001
Websites are climate neutral if the CO2 emissions generated have been calculated and offset. Surfing the internet produces CO2 emissions, primarily due to the power consumption of the servers, during data transmission and through the end devices of the users. Based on our monthly page views, we have calculated the CO2 emissions caused by our website together with ClimatePartner [Link: https://www.climatepartner.com] and offset them via a certified climate protection project.
At www.climatepartner.com/17249-2109-1001 you can see transparently how many CO2 emissions were caused by our website and which project we support. It is ClimatePartner’s exclusive climate protection project in the Luang Namtha region in northern Laos: renewable energy is generated via a hydropower plant on the Nam Long and fed into the regional power grid, replacing the fossil fuel energy that is partly purchased from China. The energy generated by this climate protection project through hydropower is considered emission-free and cheaper than purchased energy. Thus, the project contributes to a more stable, sustainable and independent energy supply in the region. (www.climatepartner.com/1439)
Nagel-Group has fitted two of its semi-trailer trucks with innovative aerodynamic elements as part of a pilot project to improve its vehicle fleet.
Biodiversity is under threat. The problem of bee mortality is very real, and one which could have significant ecological and economic consequences. After all, bees are responsible for the propagation of hundreds of thousands of plants.
The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, aims to limit global warming to well below 2, and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius. This target will pose enormous challenges for society and the economy in the coming years, to the extent that entire industries will need to be transformed.
