Anderson Development

Sustainability 2020

Anderson Development has established purposeful sustainability targets for 2020. We have designed our sustainability strategy to foster our goals as we journey toward a more sustainable future. This strategy will guide our actions to develop our workforce, our marketplace, and protect our planet. We will create a more sustainable business environment by communicating our sustainability expectations with our business partners. We will further support those United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) material to our organization. We will aspire towards an accident and incident free workplace. We will continue our efforts to improve the quality of life of our employees and community.

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2020 Sustainability Goals

Topic: 2020 Goals 2018 Progress 2019 Progress

Sustainability

Educate all of our employees on sustainability to foster in them the desire to support our goals and strategy and to inspire them to actively participate in our initiatives and to identify future initiatives material to our organization.

100% of our employees have been educated in sustainability through newly developed corporate communications and company-wide training. All employees are encouraged to participate via our newly formed sustainability committee and initiatives.

Results of a biannual employee engagement survey conducted in 2018 revealed that 99% of respondents recognize Anderson Development as a socially and environmentally responsible company.

100% of our employees have been educated in sustainability through newly developed corporate communications and company-wide training. All employees are encouraged to participate via our newly formed sustainability committee and initiatives.

Human and Workplace Rights

Committed to enhancing our employee’s quality of life through continual improvement of and investment in employee engagement, training & development, and health and wellness initiatives

Developing methods to evaluate training effectiveness and formally introduced training and development plans.

Introduced quarterly company sponsored health and wellness events

Successful completion of a Together for Sustainability Audit scoring 190 of 200 points

Results of a biannual employee engagement survey conducted in 2018 revealed that 85% of respondents feel that diversity and inclusion is valued at Anderson Development (12% higher than the U.S. on average).

Continue developing methods to evaluate training effectiveness.

In 2019 revamped performance appraisal program to emphasize employee training and development.

Continue to provide quarterly company sponsored health and wellness events based on employee feedback and encourage employee participation.

Employee Safety

Protect the health and welfare of our employees and community through the development of world-class, safe operating performance. Engage all ADC employees to work towards an injury and accident free workplace through safe operating systems, behaviors and conditions.

Increased education, communication and participation in our safety initiatives to improve our occupational and process safety performance.

  • 96.7% of employees participated in our monthly safety meetings.
  • 30% of employees were active members of a safety committee or team.
  • 54% of employees contributed to the near miss program.

Refocused efforts towards incident investigation including root cause analysis including human factors.

Results of a biannual employee engagement survey conducted in 2018 revealed that 93% of respondents believe that employee safety is very important to Anderson Development (6% higher than the U.S. on average).

Continued to identify opportunities to interact with, and to provide monetary support to local emergency responders.

Continued to promote initiatives to improve our occupational and process safety performance.

  • 96.7% of employees participated in our monthly safety meetings.
  • 30% of employees were active members of a safety committee or team.
  • 68% of employees contributed to the near miss program.

Developed a behavioral safety standard framework to define critical behaviors and specify tools needed to understand and reinforce those behaviors to foster a strong safety culture.

Continued to promote interaction with and support of our local emergency responders.

Giving Back

Invest in educational outreach and assistance to foster interest in chemistry to support our future workforce and contribute specifically to the UN SDGs (Quality Education and Reduced Inequalities) in ways which are most material to Anderson Development, have the most impact in or local community, and align with our mission

Continued to monitor participation in the educational outreach programs we provide to our community, and developed a survey to measure the success of these activities and to identify ways to improve and to increase participation.

  • >5,400 educational contact hours or
  • > 2% of total company hours

Utilized survey to evaluate and improve our educational outreach

  • 5,400 educational contact hours or
  • > 2% of total company hours

Climate Protection

We will continue to reduce our impact on the environment, and will develop a set of initiatives to ensure our success

Increased our knowledge of life cycle assessment and established the carbon footprint of our largest product line.

Continued optimization and monitoring of our aromatic solvent recovery/recycling initiative.

  • 51% reduction in key solvent purchases since 2017

Began rationalization of utility usage and waste generation to identify opportunities to reduce our operational footprint.

Continued optimization and monitoring of our aromatic solvent recovery/recycling initiative.

  • 82% reduction in key solvent purchases since 2015

Continue rationalization of utility usage and waste generation to identify opportunities to reduce our operational footprint.

Sustainable Solutions

Actively develop and promote products that support the UN SDGs (Good Health and Wellbeing and Responsible Consumption and Production.

84% of research and development allocated toward products which contribute to reduced environmental impacts or focused on enhancing product safety.

In 2019 <88% research and development allocated

Environment, Health, and Safety

Continue the development of world-class Safety and Environmental management systems by upgrading Anderson Development to the RC14001®:2015

Transitioned our management system to RC14001®:2015

Awarded a Gold rating for 2019 assessment by EcoVadis. The Gold rating is the highest recognition given by the leading independent environmental, social and ethical performance scorecard for global supply chains.

Sustainable Marketplace

In support of ADC’s 2020 Sustainability Targets, we will continue to improve customer satisfaction and to improve the sustainability of our supply chain, ensuring all critical suppliers are aligned with our vision of sustainability.

64% of our customers responded to our customer satisfaction survey and the feedback was overall positive

Validated that 90% of our material supply base are in alignment with our sustainability expectations and focused efforts to validate our remaining supply base

63% of our customers responded to our customer satisfaction survey and the feedback was overall positive

Working to validate that our remaining suppliers align with our sustainability expectations.