rev. 1.1, February 2024
Environment
• sglux products are developed for the longest possible service life.
• sglux products are repairable. Repairs are carried out at fair conditions. This motivates customers to keep products in use for longer by repairing them.
• 45% of our electricity consumption is generated by our own PV system.
• Our building has KfW55 standard.
• Standby power consumption is avoided, green IT approaches are consistently pursued.
• Machines are always loaded with maximum load to minimize energy consumption per component.
• Incoming packaging material is used to package deliveries of goods.
• Export shipments are bundled whenever possible.
• There is a 600 square meter biotope area on the company premises.
• The company premises are easily accessible by public transport.
• Business trips are climate-friendly. It is checked whether the trip is really necessary and whether rail travel is possible as an alternative to air travel.
• Our office work is paperless whenever possible, invoices are sent by email.
Social
• Volunteering is promoted through time off.
• Healthy lunches are subsidized.
• Company sports several times a week during working hours.
• sglux employees regularly receive teaching assignment for the supervision of master’s and doctoral students.
• Cooperation with colleagues, customers, suppliers and contractors is geared towards fairness, kindness, cooperativeness and sustainability.
• School projects receive free products.
• Compliance with core labor rights.
• High standards of occupational health and safety, no accidents at work since the company was founded in 2003.
• Opportunities for the further development and training of employees.
Governance
• Equal opportunities: 42% quota of women in the workforce, 33% quota of women in management positions.
• sglux offers flexible working time models with part-time and flexitime and an open culture of communication with flat hierarchies.
• sglux does not participate in defense projects.
• sglux provides free services in the field of measuring devices that serve to make life easier for terminally and seriously ill people (e.g. xeroderma pigmentosum or lupus erythenatodes).
• Suppliers who attract attention due to incomprehensible price increases generate an immediate qualification process for alternative suppliers with the aim of switching as quickly as possible.