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| Arthur Higgins, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Bayer HealthCare AG |
Our mission to discover and develop innovative medicines and medical devices is linked with our commitment to promoting access to healthcare worldwide. As a healthcare company, we invest in innovation and life cycle management for products that create value for people and societies around the world. In line with our business goals, we strive to demonstrate excellence in corporate social responsibility.
We are actively engaged in public-private partnerships with non-governmental organizations, governmental institutions as well as other companies devoted to improving global access to medicines. Our research is focused on reducing the global disease burden by targeting severe and chronic diseases.
Our business conduct is governed by our responsibility to mankind, animals and the environment throughout the entire life cycle of our products. As such, we tackle environmental issues that are specific to the health care business, are involved in climate protection activities and have introduced high ethical marketing standards.
| Headquarters: | Leverkusen (Germany) |
| Headcount: | 53,100 (2008), 51,500 (2007) |
| Sales: | €15.4 billion (2008), €14.8 billion (2007) |
| Sites: | in over 120 countries |
| Specific directives: | Voluntary commitment to health, safety, environment and quality, 2004 |
| Website: | http://www.bayerhealthcare.com/ |
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| Professor Friedrich Berschauer, Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer CropScience AG |
Agriculture faces major challenges in view of the high demand for renewable raw materials, the limited amount of land available for cultivation, and climate change. In order to ensure a supply of fooodstuffs, global agricultural productivity must be further improved. Nothing less than a second green revolution will suffice, following the first one in the 1960s.
As an innovation leader in the crop science sector, we provide farmers with state-of-the-art crop protection and new solutions in the field of crop cultivation and plant biotechnology to safeguard and increase harvests. We are looking to make substantial investments in research so that in the future we can play an even greater role in bringing about a second green revolution by ensuring sustainable agriculture.
Maintaining biodiversity and effective ecosystems form the foundation for sustainable agriculture and number among our firmly established objectives. We are also committed to helping stakeholders, our partners and the public understand the relationships between ecosystems and crop protection and seed technologies. This reflects our goal of reconciling economic, social and environmental interests.
| Headquarters: | Monheim (Germany) |
| Headcount: | 18,300 (2008), 17,800 (2007) |
| Sales: | €6.4 billion (2008), €5.8 billion (2007) |
| Sites: | in over 120 countries |
| Specific directives: | Voluntary commitment to quality, health, safety and environmental protection (QHSE), 2002; Product Stewardship Policy, 2009 |
| Website: | http://www.bayercropscience.com/ |
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| Patrick Thomas, Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer MaterialScience AG
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With its innovative materials, Bayer MaterialScience wants to address the issue of rising energy consumption by achieving a balance between ecological and economic demands, and offers numerous approaches to effectively tackle the challenges facing the world in this sector today.
For example, we have developed innovative materials for zero-emissions buildings, lighter cars and efficient wind turbines. Our activities at Bayer MaterialScience are always determined by the fundamental belief that safety, environmental protection, product and process quality and economic efficiency are success factors of equal importance.
We want our operations to help generate sustained added value for the company. That is why we are constantly looking for innovative solutions and new fields of application for existing products. We endeavor to continuously develop our operations, products and services in order to satisfy our customers and stakeholders, and to benefit the company. Our goals with regard to health, safety, environmental protection and quality are clearly defined and constantly monitored, because we want Bayer MaterialScience to be perceived and respected as an ethically and socially responsible company.
| Headquarters: | Leverkusen (Germany) |
| Headcount: | 15,100 (2008), 15,400 (2007) |
| Sales: | €9.7 billion (2008), €10.4 billion (2007) |
| Sites: | in over 55 countries |
| Specific directives: | Specific directives: Voluntary commitment to health, safety, environment and quality, initial version 2004, revised version 2008 |
| Website: | http://www.bayermaterialscience.de/ |
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| Daniel Hartert, Chairman of the Executive Board of Bayer Business Services GmbH |
Bayer Business Services is the Bayer Group’s international competence center for IT-based services. We focus on offering integrated services in the core areas of it infrastructure and applications, procurement and logistics, human resources and management services, and finance and accounting.
Our services make business processes faster, simpler, more reliable and more cost-efficient. In this way we make an important contribution to sustainable development at Bayer.
In procurement, for instance, we are adding more environment-friendly vehicles to Bayer’s company car fleet, and creating incentives for our customers in Bayer companies to choose low-emission cars. The state-of-the-art video conferencing facilities that we are currently setting up are another example. By eliminating the need for many business trips they help to reduce CO2 emissions.
Green IT is a key focus for us at present. For example, we are adopting innovative approaches designed to reduce energy consumption and emissions of harmful substances from our data centers. We are also encouraging Bayer employees to practice sustainability in their immediate work environment, for example by using paper-saving settings when printing and switching to the energy-saving mode on IT equipment.
| Headquarters: | Leverkusen (Germany) |
| Headcount: | 5,460 (2008), 4,588 (2007); both figures excluding local services and trainee pool |
| Sites: | in over 70 countries |
| Specific directives: | Voluntary commitment to Responsible Care by Bayer Business Services, 2003 |
| Website: | http://www.bayerbbs.com/ |
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| Achim Noack, Managing Director of Bayer Technology Services GmbH |
Bayer Technology Services (BTS) is the Bayer Group’s global technological backbone and a key innovation driver for the development, planning, construction and optimization of processes and plants.
Bayer Technology Services plays a role in meeting the responsibility for Group-wide ecological and social concerns throughout the world. This includes implementing international standards at all sites, as well as developing processes, and planning and constructing plants in line with the latest technology.
We have, for example, developed the Bayer Climate Check, which provides detailed information about all emissions caused by individual production processes. This instrument enables the prioritization of measures aimed at maximizing the potential for reducing emissions, and has already been successfully introduced at more than 40 production plants as part of the Bayer Climate Program. A further 60 plants are to be analyzed in 2009, and the instrument will also be offered to external companies.
Another example is BayOpX®, the BTS Operational Excellence Program, which is designed to identify further optimization potential, e. g. in raw materials consumption or yield.
| Headquarters: | Leverkusen (Germany) |
| Headcount: | 2,600 (2008), 2,600 (2007) |
| Sites: | Belgium, Germany, India, Mexico, P. R. China, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United States |
| Specific directives: | Health, safety, environment and quality policy in BTS |
| Website: | http://www.bayertechnology.com/ |
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| Dr. Klaus Schäfer, Chairman of the Executive Board of CURRENTA GmbH & Co. OHG |
CURRENTA, a joint company of Bayer and LANXESS, offers services for the chemical industry. These include utilities, waste management, infrastructure, safety and security, analytics and training.
As the manager and operator of CHEMPARK with its sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, we are responsible for maintaining the competitiveness of our sites. We apply efficient technologies and methods and optimize our processes with the aim of ensuring maximum safety, saving on natural resources and also maximizing commercial efficiency. By taking up suggestions submitted by our employees as part of our climate protection program A++ we were able in 2008 to implement ideas with potential savings of around €1 million – corresponding to an annual reduction in CO2 emissions of around 15,000 metric tons.
We reward and promote the commitment of our employees. In particular, we want to meet the challenges of demographic change through sustainable means. The action we are taking includes not only drawing up continuing education and personnel development concepts but also implementing measures to improve employee health.
| Headquarters: | Leverkusen (Germany) |
| Headcount: | 5,500 (2008), 6,000 (2007); both figures excluding trainees |
| Sites: | Leverkusen, Dormagen, Krefeld-Uerdingen (all Germany) |
| Specific directives: | Voluntary commitment to Responsible Care of Bayer Industry Services, 2003; Policy on health protection, safety, environmental protection and quality, 2004 |
| Website: | http://www.currenta.com/ |
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