Social
With regard to societal aspects of sustainability, we focus on the well being of our most important stakeholder groups.
We take responsibility
These include our own employees as well as the workforces in the value chain, local communities, consumers and end users.
We focus on personal
responsibility and flexibility
To remain successful in the long term, we need employees who think entrepreneurially, act on their own initiative and respond flexibly to change. Our corporate values of courage, ambition and respect are also based on this aspiration.
Our competence model plays a major role in career development: It provides orientation for further development in our company. We’re measured against it and it helps us focus on the key issues in our daily work. Regular information events held by top management supplement the goal and result orientation of our employees in terms of the relevance and orientation of their actions.
The global market is characterized by increasing competitive pressure and a changing economic environment. We are convinced that we will only be able to successfully meet these and future challenges with excellently trained employees. The continued development of performance and talent management is the central element for developing and retaining our internal talent for the future.
With regard to the further qualification of our employees, we pay particular attention to recognizing and promoting individual strengths. For this reason, we offer customized courses that enable employees at all levels to fully realize their professional potential. In doing so, we motivate our employees to engage in lifelong learning.
The BENTELER Group is not only an attractive employer for new employees, but can also count on the experience and expertise of long-standing employees. To increase the satisfaction of our employees, we offer, for example, initiatives for their own health, social counseling and a network for women in management positions.
We offer our employees modern working conditions. In this way, we pursue the goal of ensuring that they can always be successful in a changing world of work as well as reconcile their professional and private interests. In doing so, we go beyond legal requirements in some cases.
Our offering includes flexible working hours, part-time work and mobile working as far as they are compatible with operational processes. Itʼs all about balance as well as promoting the health of all employees. As a commercial enterprise, we ensure the performance of our workforce and at the same time promote individual well-being. Because one requires the other.
We sensitize our employees to develop self-care. This happens in workshops with our managers and, among other things, in the form of subsidized sports in Germany and Austria.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
World Cleanup Day is the world's largest waste collection campaign. Every year in September, people all over the world participate and help to rid the environment of waste. BENTELER colleagues also actively support this campaign since 2021.
Whether in teams around our sites across the globe or in private. In China, the USA, Brazil, South Africa, Spain, Germany and Czech Republic, we do our bit for the environment and collect large quantities of waste, which is then disposed of properly.
We take on responsibility
In Prague, Třebíč and Liberec, a dedicated team shows how joint action works. Since 2023, they have been organizing monthly campaigns such as food and clothing collections and clean-up campaigns. In February 2024 alone, they collected 329 kg of food for the “Česká federace potravinových bank” and sent a strong signal against food waste.
In May 2024, southern Brazil was hit by one of the worst flood disasters in the past 80 years. Our employees collected 378 kg of food, 6,077 liters of water, 263 kg of pet food and many other relief supplies. BENTELER itself donated an additional 6,500 liters of water to support those affected.
Together with the NGO Idesam, BENTELER plants trees in agroforestry systems in the Amazon. This project improves the living conditions of the local population and contributes to the restoration of destroyed forest areas.
BENTELER Steel/Tube held its annual charity golf tournament in Shreveport, Louisiana, in April. 49,361 US dollars were raised for Providence House, an organization that supports homeless families.
Diversity is a central pillar of our work culture: we live respect and equal opportunities - regardless of origin, gender or age. In 2024, people from around 140 nations worked at BENTELER.
