H.B. Fuller Co. recently released its 2023 Sustainability Report. The report outlines H.B. Fuller’s progress toward meeting its global sustainability goals.
In 2023, H.B. Fuller initiated work to set new sustainability targets in line with Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) standards. To support these new standards, the company took several steps to improve data collection and analysis while also responding to customers’ sustainability needs.
“At H.B. Fuller, sustainability is fundamental to our product innovation, central to improving our operational efficiency, and integrated in our values and culture,” said H.B. Fuller President and CEO Celeste Mastin. “Today, nearly 60% of H.B. Fuller’s new product development projects are focused on increasing the sustainability of our customers’ end products, and this heightened commitment to sustainable product innovation for our customers creates a ripple effect that benefits our employees, communities, shareholders, and the natural environment.”
Details about how H.B. Fuller is delivering on its sustainability commitments include:
- Creating six Sustainability Action subcommittees representing multiple geographies and functions responsible for advancing environmental, social, and governance initiatives
- Implementing software to support Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) related to product footprint and climate change
- Launching several technologies enabling sustainable customer innovations across a wide range of end markets, including electric vehicles, solar, woodworking, technical textile, packaging, hygiene, and energy efficient buildings
- Reducing the company’s Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) by 35% since 2019 even though several new companies have been acquired
- Launching Employee Voice, a new “pulse” survey platform that employs machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to help H.B. Fuller more effectively extract valuable insights from its employees so it can listen, learn, and adapt. The new platform was launched after years of performing extensive employee engagement surveys.
- Investing in a new global mentorship digital platform that supported nearly 400 mentorship pairings across the company
- Providing financial support to more than 186 organizations through the H.B. Fuller Co. Foundation and supporting employee volunteerism that benefitted local communities in 27 countries
H.B. Fuller reports that the company continues to build on its commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), align its disclosures to the industry-leading Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, and report under the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Index.
Learn more about sustainability at H.B. Fuller and access the 2023 Sustainability Report.
