Corporate social responsibility

Swiss Steel Group’s CSR ambition is in sync with the business strategy and tailored to the stakeholders’ needs. The principles of our activities are the conservation of resources, energy efficiency, product recyclability, minimizing emissions, safety at the workplace, continuous innovation and an open dialogue with our stakeholders.

How we define CSR

CSR for Swiss Steel Group means to consider the success of the company from the following three perspectives: Economic performance, Environmental performance and Social performance. This means that we analyse and assess all three performance areas along specified key performance indicators (KPIs).

Multifaceted implementation

We follow CSR principles in diverse ways

By ensuring health and safety, supporting personal and professional development of our employees, creating new job opportunities for young people, continuously improving our production processes and environmental measures to reduce our ecological footprint. By using scrap as a primary raw material, we conserve valuable resources and ensure the company's economic success through efficiency measures. We strive to be as close as possible to our customers worldwide, and our compliance regulations are an integral part of our corporate philosophy. We take responsibility to ensure that all our products and services are provided in a sustainable and ethical manner.

Our strategy and main goals

We integrate CSR in the core of our business model by focusing on and evaluating the key concerns of our stakeholders. Every stakeholder of Swiss Steel Group should be able to understand our CSR approach and know how to support it. This is in line with our long-term goal to create a profitable, innovative and global group for special long steel.

Main CSR goals of the Swiss Steel Group are:

Make CSR an integral part of the Swiss Steel Group value chain from purchase to production, processing, sales and distribution
Balance out and continuously improve economic, environmental and social performance
Make a positive impact on society in a sustainable and ethical way

Reporting of Corporate Social Responsibility

CSR at Swiss Steel Group is continuously developing. The progress in CSR will be reported annually in the annual report of the corresponding year. As a guideline in developing CSR reporting for Swiss Steel Group, the principles of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards are followed. In the Annual Report you will find an overview of stakeholders and material topics.Discover more Link opens in a new tab.

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Sustainability | 07/05/2024

Swiss Steel Group continues to drive the green transformation: it is participating in an initiative to supply its own electricity from renewable energies

It is a significant milestone on the way to more green steel and a real game changer for the industry: Swiss Steel Group is pleased to announce its participation in a consortium for renewable energies, the "Initiative EE-Industrie". This initiative, consisting of 19 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany, aims to build, operate and utilize wind and photovoltaic plants for self-supply with green elec-tricity.

Company insights | 02/05/2024

Swiss Steel Holding AG publishes invitation to the Annual General Meeting

Swiss Steel Holding AG, a global leader in special long steel, publishes the invitation to the Annual General Meeting today, which will take place on May 23, 2024

Ad hoc announcements | 29/04/2024

Swiss Steel Holding AG announces changes to the Board of Directors and a planned reverse stock split