Our Approach to Sustainability
A signee to the United Nations Global Compact, we are committed to the principles of sustainability.
In six focus areas, we work toward defined objectives to identify and prevent or mitigate potential negative impacts our business may have on the environment, society, and human rights.
Focus Fields
Sustainability Management System
The corporate sustainability management system at Sartorius ensures compliance with international regulations and drives our transformation to more sustainable business operations.
It is based on an annual management process. In this process, we identify and assess the impacts on the environment and human rights that might occur in our operations or upstream and downstream the value chain, as well as related risks and opportunities.
In a next step, we define activities and monitor and report on these. After policy review, the process, which is part of the group risk management, starts anew.
Our Contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Health and well-being are fundamental human rights and important indicators of sustainable development. Despite major advances in modern medicine, more than half of the world's population still has inadequate or no access to medical care.
Our technologies help to develop existing forms of biopharmaceuticals faster and manufacture them more cost-effectively, and enable new forms such as cell and gene therapies - so that more people have access to better medicine.