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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Company insights | 15/11/2024

Swiss Steel Group consistently implements planned capacity adjustments

Lucerne, 15 November 2024 | Swiss Steel Group is adjusting its capacities due to the current eco-nomic conditions and the persistently weak demand. At the same time, the realignment of the en-tire sales organization will continue as planned. Specifically, capacities in Switzerland and abroad are to be reduced to the extent of around 800 full-time positions.

Company insights | 31/10/2024

Change in the Board of Directors of Swiss Steel Group

Lucerne, October 31, 2024 – Effective October 30, 2024, Martin Lindqvist has assumed the role of Chairman of the Board at Swiss Steel Group, succeeding Jens Alder. Lindqvist brings extensive industry experience as the former Chairman and CEO of the Swedish steel company SSAB. Jens Alder will continue to serve as Vice Chairman of the Swiss Steel Group Board of Directors.

Company insights | 24/10/2024

Statement on recent media reports regarding Swiss Steel Group

In recent days, various media outlets have published reports about Swiss Steel Group, speculating on the current situation of the Group. Swiss Steel Group would like to address these as follows: