Our Sustainability Policy

We leave our mark on the world by pursuing sustainable growth strategies in order to leave a better planet for future generations.  We perceive social, environmental, and economic challenges as entangled and interconnected, and we begin to consider sustainability in all work we do.

Our main responsibilities in terms of social, environmental, and economic challenges are as follows:

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Human rights

• Respecting and defending universal human rights, as well as taking responsibility for violations of those rights,
• Raise awareness about all types of violence, including domestic violence

Occupational health and Safety

• Prioritizing occupational health and safety,

Customer Health and Safety Throughout the Lifecycle of a Product or Service

• To prioritize and give emphasis to customer health and safety throughout the product and service lifecycle,
• To communicate information with our customers about the health, safety, and environmental implications of our goods and services in a transparent and systematic way,

Anti-Corruption and Bribery

• Taking anti-corruption and bribery as our primary responsibility,
• Reviewing our processes in order to detect irregularities and bribes,

Ways of Exercising Business That Go Beyond Legal Regulations

• Adopting a company model that goes beyond strict adherence to legal requirements,
• Accepting the concepts of transparency, fairness, responsibility, and accountability in corporate governance,

Information security

• To preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of information, as well as to raise awareness of information security among our stakeholders,

Employee Rights

• Embracing company ethics, beliefs, and operating principles,
• Recognizing that equal opportunity is one of the pillars of social sustainability,
• Ensuring women’s equal and effective involvement in business and boosting women’s employment,
• Advocating for the prohibition of forced and coercive labor, as well as child labor,
• Recognizing and protecting all fundamental rights of our employees derived from constitutional and international agreements,
• Ensuring that there is no discrimination in recruitment and job placement,
• Demonstrating a responsible attitude toward our employees in establishing a healthy work-life balance,

Progress Journey

• Being the preferred place to work
• Carrying out our corporate and individual performance evaluation processes, as well as to communicate our strategy and goals to the entire business and our workers.
• Fostering a collaborative work environment by making our corporate development strategies best practice examples.

Relations with Stakeholders and Community

• Communicating with our stakeholders in all of our actions in a transparent, interactive, and mutually trusting manner.
• Working with our stakeholders to manage our social, environmental, and economic impacts in a proactive manner.
• Establishing a foundational concept of “management with a sense of social responsibility,” which is represented in our company practices, culture, and values.
• Shaping and diversifying our societal contributions in accordance with our social responsibility strategies
• Promoting and communicating the sustainability strategy

ENVIROMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

More Efficient Use of Natural Resources and Reducing Waste

• Improving our business procedures to make better use of natural resources
• Minimizing water use
• Working in accordance with the principle of reducing waste at the source
• Managing generated wastes in line with the principle of zero storage in nature and creating economic value through reuse and recycling
• Working in accordance with the idea of non-pollution rather than cleansing in our actions

Energy and Carbon Management

• Combating global climate change
• Reducing emissions of all greenhouse gases emitted by our activities, particularly carbon dioxide
• Using renewable and efficient energy
• Using our environmental management system to control and mitigate our environmental impacts.

Environmentally Friendly Products and Services

• Ensuring that our products and services are environmentally friendly, safe, sturdy, and of high quality
• Addressing the impacts of our products and services throughout their lifecycle

Showing Respect to Biodiversity

• Taking biodiversity and ecosystem issues into account when developing environmental plans and designing activities.

ECONOMIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsible Value Chain Practices

• Creating and disseminating more economic value
• Creating a competitive edge and assuring long-term profitability by continuously improving and developing our value chain
• Promoting long-term success through an enterprise-wide risk management culture that identifies and mitigates organizational risks early on
• Using business continuity management techniques to assure the continuity of our important products and services
• Ensuring that our suppliers uphold fundamental human rights, fair opportunity, and our corporate ethical values
• Collaborating with suppliers who adhere to all legal laws, such as a safe working environment, working hours, and remuneration

Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship

• Putting innovation and corporate entrepreneurship at the heart of our company culture, and to ensure that its practices are shared with our stakeholders.