Environmental, Social and Governance

Non financial key figures

ENVIRONMENT

  2025 2024 2023
GHG EMISSIONS (Total market-based - metric tons CO2e) 590 289 631 870 823 929
Scope 1  65 326 60 846 70 491
Scope 2 18 636 35 626 36 963
Scope 3 482 015 535 398 716 475
GHG intensity (t Coeq/ € M) 667 693 813
ENERGY CONSUMPTION (Total - in MWh) 535 996 506 534* 549 278*
% of renewable energy 32% 27% 26%
Energy intensity (MWh/ € M) 632 555 542
WATER (in thousand m3)      
Water withdrawal  17 571 17 181 18 312
Water consumption 722 625** 650**
Water recycled 6 626 4 807 4 532
Water intensity (m3/ € M) 0.85 0.60 0.64
WASTE PRODUCED (Total - in metric tons) 52 297 60 384 84 115
Hazardous waste 32 312 29 188 42 846
Non-hazardous waste 19 984 31 196 41 269
Waste recycled  28 665 36 198 43 870
Waste sent to landfill 4 544 5 120 8 544
% non recycled waste 66% 40% 48%
SOLVENTS CONSUMED (Total - in metric tons) 82 845 70 564 86 656
Solvents regenerated in metric tons 62 073 52 128 62 905
Solvent recycling rate (%) 75% 74% 73%
OTHER EMISSIONS      
VOC (volatile organic compound - emissions in metric tons) 1 120 924 1 215
ISO CERTIFICATIONS      
ISO 14001 certification (% Group sites) 100% 100% 100%
ISO 50001 certification (% Group sites) 100% 100% 100%

* Update in 2025 data see p.241 URD for explanation
** Updated perimeter - recycled used to include recovered waste, which is now excluded 

SOCIAL

  2025 2024 2023
GENERAL      
Number of employees (Total) 3 133 3 428 3 669
France 1 255 1 259 1 302
Hungary 894 977 1 044
Germany 726 764 839
Italy 214 216 220
Other 44 44 45
Breakdown of workforce by contract type (%)      
Permanent contracts 95% 93% 90%
Fixed-term contracts 6% 7% 10%
Breakdown of workforce by age (%)       
<30 13% 12% 14%
30 to 50 52% 54% 54%
>50 35% 34% 32%
CHANGES IN WORKFORCE      
New hires (Total) 335 258 614
France 170 115 192
Hungary 97 76 252
Germany 41 26 110
United Kingdom 10 13 21
Italy 9 20 33
Other 8 8 6
Departures (Total) 674 498 398
France 178 163 126
Hungary 170 152 137
Germany 129 87 55
United Kingdom 172 66 54
Italy 17 21 20
Other 8 8 6
Turnover 14.9% 10.4% 14.7%
Absenteeism rate 5% 5% 5%

 

  2025 2024 2023
HEALTH AND SAFETY      
Lost Time Injury frequency rate per 1,000,000 hours worked 3.1 3.1 2.1
Total Recordable Injury frequency rate per 1,000,000 hours worked 4.4 4.6 2.8
Accident severity rate per 1,000 hours worked 81.2 65.7 39.9
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION      
Women in total workforce (%) 28.5% 29% 29%
Women members of Board of Directors (%) 40% 45% 58%
Women members of Executive Committee (%) 29% 33% 36%
Women in Extended Leadership team (%) 28% 34% 36%
Women in senior leadership positions (%) 35% 37% 34%
Gender equality index: Index Pénicaud, for France 97/100 83/100 83/100
Employees with disabilities/average workforce, for France (%)   6% 4.9%
Number of nationalities in the Group 47 47 45

ETHICS + COMPLIANCE

  2025 2024 2023
GENERAL      
Employees trained on Code of Ethics (%) 94% 96% 95%
Employees trained on Alert Management (%)   98% 95%
% of employees in functions at risk having done the anti-bribery/anti-corruption 97% 97% /
RESPONSIBLE SUPPLY CHAIN      
Raw material expenditure: Europe vs non-Europe 71% 79% 71%
% New suppliers having signed our Supplier Code of Conduct 97% 79%*** 71%***
PAYMENT PRACTICES      
Average number of days to pay an invoice 41 44 /
% of payments aligned with standard payment terms 60% 57% /
Number of legal proceeding at 31st Dec outstanding for late payments 0 0 /
CYBERSECURITY      
% of employees trained to cybersecurity 92% / /

***raw material new suppliers