OUR VISION

Altheora is committed to reducing the environmental footprint related to the manufacture of its products by 2025:

• Reduce packaging with our suppliers and our clients, as well as implementing packaging that is 100% recyclable and/or biodegradable.
• Plan in order to reduce our consumption of energy and the amount of waste we produce for all of our sites.
• Improve our carbon impact by 10% per year for our manufacturing operations.
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions across our entire value chain.
• Integrate natural reinforcements in the structure of our composite materials.
• Use recycled raw materials and materials that have a low environmental impact.
• Ensure that 100% of all wastewater discharged is non-polluting: tested once a year
• Implement actions to preserve terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity in the areas surrounding our sites, in partnership with the ARCHE Agglo association.

Committed to the people on its teams, but also more generally to those that are part of its ecosystem and its sector, ALTHEORA:

• Adheres to the principles of the UN Global Compact and integrate each of its principles into the vision of our group, our culture, and our operations, and in the interactions with interested parties.
• Provides a respectful remuneration system (13th month of salary, attendance bonus, public transport benefits, etc.)
• Commits to favoring gender equality, to representation that is gender-balanced at all levels of the business, and to the elimination of salary gaps between women and men: Gender equality index for 2020 = 93/100
• Provides quality professional training for all of our employees throughout the year.
• Implements the ISHIKAWA approach for the analysis of workplace accidents in order to work towards a rate of 0 accidents for our entire group.
• Reduces work-related musculoskeletal disorders by taking significant actions in the workplace and by adapting employee workstations.
• Shares social and environmental best practices with our partners, suppliers, and clients.
• Sets up a sustainable development week at all of our sites each year.
• Uses a collective approach to on-the-job skills evaluation (Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience, VAE). To date, 12 evaluations resulting in receipt of a professional qualification certificate, as well as 2 professional “baccalauréats”, 1 superior technician certificate (brevet de technicien supérieur) and 5 diplomas from the French national education system.

Altheora ensures its responsibility related to each activity that makes up the life cycle and takes necessary measures to control all of its actions and those of its stakeholders at every step:

• Implement a Responsible Purchasing Charter in order to inform our suppliers of our actions.
• Put a precise CSR rating in place for suppliers, and in particular for transportation companies.
• Highlight CSR best practices and eco-responsible behavior for suppliers.
• Organize co-development projects with partners, as well as productivity workshops.
• Implement an Optimization Calculator for the useful volume of tractor trailers to increase efficiency when orders are sent out.
• Have an investment plan for manufacturing resources that is as respectful as possible of the environment, including improvements compared to the existing industrial facilities.
• Set a minimum number of innovative and sustainable projects in development per year
• Have policies for integration and access to employment for certain vulnerable or disadvantaged populations (rural areas, unqualified workers, disabled workers, refugees, etc.) 6% of the workforce in 2020.
• Develop a plan to reduce production of waste and consumption of energy. Objective: re-purpose 100% of our raw material production scraps. To be implemented at the Mauves site, then general deployment of impact measurement tools (carbon review, review of atmospheric pollution produced)
• Renewal plan for the current fleet of vehicles to move to cleaner vehicles (hybrid or electric)

Altheora is committed to meeting the expectations, and responding to the questions and remarks made by its stakeholders, in complete transparency:

• Transparency in governance, in business models, in relations with employees, and within the ALTHEORA ecosystem
• Integration of a scale of client ratings that seeks to obtain the results of the evaluation of client relations and client satisfaction.
• Continuous improvement processes implemented based on the results obtained and communication of the results internally and to the stakeholders to confirm the group’s commitment to meet the expectations of its clients.
• Compliance with the transparency and ethics charter of companies listed on the Euronext Growth market.

ALTHEORA gets involved in local sustainable development by working with local partners, groups of professionals, associations, and communities, and favors sharing experience and best practices:

• Collaborative work with major partners specialized in ecological and energy transition (La French Fab, La French Tech, Coq Vert BPI, ADEME, etc.)
• Communication on social networks concerning commitments, actions carried out by the business and its strategy of founding a development ecosystem with a shared objective.
• Maintaining relations with its main suppliers and its professional partners, with the goal of being able to associate and to build a responsible business model over the long term.
• Organizing day-long events and workshops in order to inform the public and to educate younger people to adopt eco-responsible behavior
• Participating in the development of projects and local planning for the good of the local communities.