Foreword by the Executive Board
Dear readers,
With our fifth sustainability report, we are looking to the future. Climate change, social change, digitalization, and shifts in the global markets are changing the world fundamentally. They mean that our firefighting industry also has to change. For us, that presents challenges and opportunities. We are addressing both – while taking great care with and responsibility for the environment, society, employees, and our industry.
Video Dieter Siegel, CEO
Last year, we scrutinized our actions and refined our strategic direction. The result of this work is our “corporate strategy 2030”, which we have centered on the topics of responsibility and sustainable success. We want to change the world of firefighting sustainably, in line with the interests and the justifiable demands of society and our planet. In 2022, we are going to refine our previous sustainability strategy and, based on this, derive a climate strategy.
As with the previous year, 2021 was overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The safety of our workforce of around 4,000 is our top priority. That is why we continued to apply our safety management measures particularly diligently. Regardless of that, we pay great attention to our employees. It is only with their contribution that we can achieve our mutually defined goals and make our vision – “We change the world of firefighting” – a reality. That is why we nurture a working environment in which they can develop as fully as possible – by further improving the capabilities for mobile collaboration, for example. We also foster diversity: in this connection, we want to increase the share of women in the overall workforce as well as in the management team and the levels of management to 15% in the foreseeable future. With our women’s initiative women@rosenbauer, we are pursuing these goals and contributing to gender equality.
In 2021, we embarked on our journey to make this a decade of responsibility. To that end, we want to drive the electric transformation forward in particular. The first fleet order for our electric firefighting vehicle of the future, the “Revolutionary Technology” (RT), shows that we are on the right path. Our short-term plan is to be able to offer a vehicle with an alternative drive in every product category in 2023. We expect that almost half of all vehicles that we deliver in 2030 will be electrified. With that, we are contributing to sustainable change in the world of firefighting.
With the initial creation of an EU taxonomy, last year we took the next step toward considering the topic of sustainability in a more comprehensive way at our company. That is also something that our stakeholders encouraged us to do in a digital dialog held in early 2021. Our key topic is firefighting. But preventive fire protection and fighting forest fires will also be fundamental for us in future. For these areas, we offer innovative products that we want to further improve sustainably.
In the following statements, we will now tell you about the progress that we have made in the aspects of sustainability. You will gain an insight into our sustainable commitment to the environment, society, and business, and you can read about the goals we have set ourselves for coming years in more detail.
We would like to thank all our stakeholders who have accompanied us on our journey so far. Please feel free to contact us with any feedback you may have regarding our report and the explanations. We look forward to entering into dialog with you.
DIETER SIEGEL, CEO
ANDREAS ZELLER, CSO
DANIEL TOMASCHKO, CTO
SEBASTIAN WOLF, CFO