Corporate Social Responsibility

‘We declare that within the Company operations we have made and will continue to make efforts to ensure the creation of a better society, retaining balance and protecting the environment.’ This is an excerpt from the Corporate Social Responsibility Policy of the Grupa Kęty S.A. Capital Group, which has been setting out the direction of our social engagement. The Corporate Social Responsibility Policy, respecting, promoting and developing the 10 Principles of the UN Global Compact, to which we are a signatory, as well as other CSR standards and processes determine the framework and horizons of our actions.

The Corporate Social Responsibility area, owing to its broad scope and our priority approach to the sustainable development affairs, is managed by the division of the CSR Director, whereas strategic decisions are made at the meetings of the Steering Committee for Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Year 2020 brought about an unexpected and unforeseen social and economic situation, with regard to COVID-19 pandemic.

The Capital Group of Grupa Kęty S.A. focused on priority securing of the health and safety of its employees, protection of workplaces and proper functioning of the company.

At all companies, within internal activities, a series of security procedures and preventive measures were applied. Remote working solutions were introduced as far as possible. All employees were provided with hands disinfectants, workplaces sanitization agents, and protective masks. Also temperature measurement was made available, spraying of disinfectants in the common office parts and production halls were introduced, as well as division of organisational units into safety zones in order limit contacts among the employees to the absolute minimum.

These measures were introduced with the employees protection in mind. The Capital Group maintained workplaces without financial limitations for the employees, increasing headcount by 2% compared to the year 2019 (as at the end of 2020 and 2019).

The Group has engaged in supporting healthcare services in fighting coronavirus. The Capital Group of Grupa Kęty S.A. donated PLN 660,000 to local hospitals and emergency service (including PLN 260,000 donated by Grupa Kęty S.A.). Moreover, Aluporof S.A. manufactured and donated over 10,000 visors.

In 2020, we prepared and published the Strategy for the years 2021–2025, in which, for the first time ever, the Company parametrised and presented its commitment in the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance area (ESG) in the form of sustainable development goals, which comprises the impact on the environment, safety and development of the employees, responsibility within the supply chain and engagement in local communities among the key elements of the strategy performance.

Preparing ourselves to such approach and including some major aspects in the new strategy, we had analysed the previous directions of the Capital Group engagement, verifying their effectiveness, and qualified them to the specific sustainable development goals. We had taken into account new challenges, including those related to climate changes, respecting human rights, and responsibility within the supply chain. We had focused on the expectations of the employees, one of the leading stakeholders of our organisation. We had analysed our impacts and risk, and strived to follow the Mission, Vision and Values, which are of paramount importance to us.

Mission

For the future... ‘Ensuring employee development, effective use of natural resources, safety, environmental protection, and long term economic value’.

Vision

A world-class company in the areas of its operation’.

Values

Our values comprise moral standards, business ethics and culture, innovative solutions and social responsibility, reflecting the way the Grupa Kęty S.A. Capital Group operates

Taking into account the business specifics of the Grupa Kęty Capital Group, and the consequently followed path of the assumed CSR Policy, the focus on 10 principles of the Global Compact of which Grupa Kęty S.A. is a signatory, as well as segment consultations, we have selected and declared engagement and activities for the support of sustainable development goals.