SUSTAINABILITY AS A SYSTEM

THE TERM ECOSYSTEM HAS LONG BEEN USED TO DESCRIBE NOT ONLY NATURAL COMMUNITIES, HABITATS, BUT ALSO INTERCONNECTED, DYNAMIC ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS. ALL THREE INTERPRETATIONS ARE CORRECT – AND FORM A HOLISTIC CONTEXT AT BPW.

LESS IS MORE. THIS ALSO HELPS THE ENVIRONMENT

Everything that makes transport more economical and safer benefits humankind, the environment and the climate. Solutions from BPW aim to reduce consumption, wear, downtime, congestion and detours, noise and exhaust emissions and empty running. Year after year, BPW makes significant progress in this regard – for example through weight savings or innovations in the fields of electric transportation, load securing and connected transport. However, BPW believes its responsibility goes much further, also encompassing procurement and supplier management, assessing the energy input and environmental
impact of production over the entire life cycle of each solution, and does not even stop at the well-being of its own employees – BPW obliges its partners to comply with the highest standards of quality, environmental and climate protection,compliance and occupational safety worldwide and throughout the entire value chain.

A MULTIFACETED UNDERSTANDING OF RESPONSIBILITY

BPW’s sustainability concept is built on three pillars: employees and society,environment and energy and product responsibility. Achieving significant progress year after year in all of these areas is a task  that the entire company is committed to – across all departments and hierarchical levels. BPW documents its progress year after year in a sustainability report orientated on the guidelines of the UN Global Compact – the world’s largest initiative for responsible corporate management.

A typical feature of a family-owned company like BPW is its close ties withemployees, vocational trainees and their families at the location of the company’s headquarters. BPW is one of the best vocational  training firms in Germany and sets standards when it comes to equipment and talent promotion – although young people with school issues are also systematically supported. BPW is even active in nursery and primary schools in order to get even the youngest ones interested in mathematics and natural sciences. 

Together with other family-owned companies, BPW is not only taking a public stand against xenophobia, but is also using its opportunities as a training company to show young people concrete ways that they can build a better world. For example, political education is part of the training programme, and this includes practical projects.