Sustainability at BUG: From aluminium recycling to certification

Pure nature: The STEP grassland projects

As part of the STEP-G group of companies, we launched our STEP Grassland project at our location in Vogt a few years ago. In addition to an apiary, we also have an insect hotel, which has become a familiar haunt of wild bees, offering them a much-needed refuge.

Our orchard is also developing beautifully and our bees have been busy pollinating the flowers. We are looking forward to our first small harvest of fruit and honey. Our bird nesting boxes have also proved to be popular among local birds, with some of the first hatchlings having already emerged.

We are proud that our STEP Grassland project has permitted us to play an active part in the conservation of animal and plant species and in the preservation of nature and the environment.

Good health & well-being

• The most important resources within BUG are health and resilience. We invest in the maintenance and promotion of health and resilience so that we will be prepared for the challenges of the world in the future, so that we can act quickly and so that we can respond flexibly and rapidly to the highly dynamic development of the working environment.
• A health-focused management team and well-trained staff ensure maximum performance without compromising on safety and health.
• Our appreciative working environment promotes a positive working atmosphere and cooperation. Transparent information flow and open, active communication at eye level are fundamental to creating a positive working atmosphere.
• To realise the great potential of the people in the company, we promote our managers and employees from the outset.
• Occupational health and safety is firmly integrated into all phases and procedures of our processes and our work system.
• Group-wide standardised and software-supported health-safety-environment processes lead to continuous improvement in health, sustainability and working environment performance.
• Protecting the health and safety of all employees and visitors is a top priority. Each and every one of us must perform our activities safely and carefully to prevent accidents and impairments to health. BUG, together with STEP-G, has resolved to design employees’ workplaces so that they are safer and healthier in all respects. Continuous analyses provide the basis for safe machine systems, technical procedures and work processes. The health and safety of employees during their free time is another area we continue to focus on. It is the reason action and support programs are an integral part of BUG.

Quality education

• Irrespective of gender, background or other personal factors, we support and develop our specialist personnel and managers. We strive to continually offer training and further education opportunities.
• We are a long-standing and experienced training enterprise. We offer apprenticeships and further training programmes and are keen to give youngsters the chance to grow with us.
• The training we provide is highly specialised, our goal being to pass on our knowledge to employees and business partners.

Gender equality

• Together with STEP-G, we at BUG are committed to equal opportunities and personnel development.
• One of our most important goals in terms of gender equality is to support the people in our company on an equal level and to encourage women to take up technical professions.

Affordable & clean energy

• BUG product solutions make an important contribution to improvement, protection of the building envelope, upgrading and the sustainability of every building object. This also results in an improvement in energy efficiency gegeben.
• The constant further development measures in our production and continuous improvements in our energy efficiency boosts our competitiveness, which in turn secures jobs. This supports our goal of affordable and clean energy.

Decent work & economic growth

• As part of our health management within the STEP-G group of companies, our staff benefit from extras such as sports programmes, gyms, health days and other events.
• For us, creating and improving decent workplaces is second nature. We take our social responsibility seriously and have thus anchored our goals in the EMAS environmental statement. Our code of conduct, which we share with STEP-G, demands the same commitment from our suppliers.

Industry, innovation & infrastructure

• Our product solutions and technologies form the basis for sustainable technological development across the added value supply chain. Innovations for windows, facades and roofs with conservatories and roofing, protection and durability as well as the recyclability of our solutions are the prerequisite for a sustainable product life cycle.
• The continuous optimisation of our processes as well as machines and systems contribute to resource conservation and the reduction of greenhouse gases.
• BUG’s decentralised structure and close integration into the STEP-G group of companies ensures customer-oriented supply, customer-centric service and sustainable industrialisation.

Sustainable cities & communities

• Our product solutions for efficient building and real estate construction as well as renovations make an important contribution to the protection and upgrading of the building envelope in the construction sector. With our innovative system solutions, we offer BUG a significant contribution to sustainable housing construction and renovation in cities and municipalities.
• Through the STEP-G group of companies, we offer solutions for efficient urban mobility. Our products facilitate lightweight construction in the transport industry for road, rail and air traffic and thus play an important part in ensuring local sustainability. Lightweight construction solutions from STEP-G allow us to drive forward progress in transport, from which BUG also benefits.
• Energy and noise emissions are reduced by our aluminium components installed as a system solution.
• We support our partners in communal housing construction with targeted campaigns. How we create sustainable value for society.
• For example, we donate money and resources to provide disadvantaged families with IT equipment.

Responsible consumption & construction

• The highest requirements for sustainable product solutions, which are manufactured using sustainable production methods, ensure maximum eco-efficiency.
• Our integrated management system complies with EMAS III Directive (EC) No. 1221/2009. This determines our sustainable, energy-efficient and eco-friendly operations at al levels.

Climate action

• We have read the signs of our times. Our goal is to become CO_² neutral by 2030 through various projects. We are a reliable partner for our customers, helping them to achieve or even exceed their goals.
• We support the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and want to exceed the requirements of society, the country and customers.
• Other pillars of our sustainability goals are energy saving and strict emissions management.
• We are a competent partner for carbon-neutral mobility and sustainable product solutions for the construction sector. Many of our solutions are used in state-of-the-art and sustainably renovated buildings.

Life on land

• Biodiversity is an important topic for BUG and the entire STEP-G group of companies. A constant source of pleasure is the activity in our nesting boxes and in the honey harvested by our own bees.
• We also enjoy the extensive biodiversity of various plants at our locations.

Peace, justice & strong institutions

• The STEP-G Legal Compliance System forms the basis for our consistent, uncompromising adherence to statutory regulations and also internal regulations which go even further.
• We also expect this commitment from our supply chain. We therefore also pass these on to our suppliers via the Code of Conduct.
• We have established a confidential reporting system in accordance with the Whistleblowing Policy, which provides every employee with a safe opportunity to report any deviations and non-compliance within the company.