Schaeffler India has adopted the group EHS policy where it addresses the waste generated in our processes which stated are under “Minimum Environmental Impact and Environmentally Friendly Products”. We endeavor to minimize environmental impact by taking suitable measures in advance. We consume raw materials and energy sparingly and make every effort to minimize waste, wastewater, noise, and other emissions. We manufacture environment friendly products considering the entire product lifecycle.

In line with our policy, Schaeffler India has taken a ESG target of Zero waste to land fill by carrying out a 3R principle to reduce our waste generation, Re-use of the possible wastes and recycling the Hazardous and non-Hazardous wastes. We have initiated a project at Savli location where the Hazardous waste generated from our Effluent treatment plant is disposed to a cement industry for co-processing which is best alternative to land fill. The same concept will be implemented at all the locations to achieve zero waste to landfill by 2025. Pilot Run implemented: 443 tons of hazardous waste diverted from landfills & sent for Co-processing to cement industry. Material yield is one of the major areas we are working to reduce the scrap from the production process. Automotive plants will take up the target of achieving 3% material yield by CY25.

The casting & MS scrap generated in the production process are sent back to the Vendors for recycling and our new raw material is having recycled content in the material, which will further reduce the Scope 3 emission.

Other non-hazardous wastes generated are wood, cartons, paper, gunny bags, plastic wastes and maintenance scraps. We have reduced the generation of the paper waste by adopting the digital solutions and reduced about 90% of the paper used.

Cartons are the major waste in packaging, which is generated when we receive raw materials and in the dispatches of the final product to customers. To reduce the packaging waste, Schaeffler India is working with suppliers & customers to reduce the packaging wastes and has initiated a returnable packaging material in agreement with more than 50% of our suppliers & customers. Wooden pallets are reused internally for the transportation to avoid purchasing of the new pallets.

For the chemicals and substances, which we use, we have our own control system called BAFF, a substance control system which will allows only approved substances for controlling the procurement of non-standard and highly toxic chemicals.

Schaeffler in the design stage itself considers optimizing the design of the product and process in coordination with the Tooling department to reduce the waste generated during production.

We are maintaining the register of declarable substance and we are compliant with REACh and RoHS standards. Also, we are abiding by the regulations around conflict of minerals at Schaeffler.

Even though our operations are not situated in ecologically sensitive areas, we make a conscious effort to conserve and sustain local biodiversity around our operations. E.g Green belt development to increase the biodiversity within the premises.

Yes, we have a Business Continuity, contingency and crisis management policy, where its primary objective is to provide basic regulations for Business Continuity, in particular for Contingency Management with focus on hazard prevention and maintaining customer supply, and for Crisis Management. All employees within the scope of the policy are required to follow it.

We have established several escalation stages, which are disruption, emergency, emergency with crisis potential, local/regional crisis, and crisis. It is mandatory to report any situation that does not meet the criteria of these stages. The purpose of having a plan is to develop a more proactive, comprehensive, and integrated approach to strengthen our ability to prepare for, mitigate, and respond to disasters that may occur. We have the highest standards of IT security and systems. We also have a robust information technology disaster recovery plan in conjunction with the business continuity plan. We follow our Schaeffler procedure “Contingency Management with Focus on the Ability to Supply” available in the Management Handbook (Internal document).

Our procedure specifies what production and distribution at the site as well as relevant support/service functions must do to be able to continue customer supply in the event of resource outages or other defined situations with emergency potential.

This Group procedure (P) regulates the technical, organisational, environmental and safety-oriented measures and the responsible areas/departments for preventing hazards to persons and equipment and ensuring that contact with the customer is maintained and the customer is supplied with goods and services even in contingency situations. In addition we have Risk management system in place where we report potential risk with valuation criteria and also action plan is defined to mitigate those risk.

As a responsible organisation we have an ambitious target of becoming climate neutral in the supply chain (upstream- Scope 3) by 2040.

We have taken various measure to mitigate and reduce the impact on the environment such as:

• Sustainable supply chain with 89% of suppliers have been evaluated on SAQ,
• Reduction of the emission by optimising the transportation by implementing the CDC’s (consolidated distribution center-warehouse)
• Implementation of the returnable packaging as 50% our customers packages are already converted into returnable packaging’s etc.

We have assessed 89% of our production material suppliers through Schaeffler Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ). SAQ covering various aspects such as environmental impacts and certifications. Schaeffler encouraging all suppliers for better environmental practices through ISO 14001 certifications.