Sustainability Progress Highlights
Sustainability is at the forefront of innovation and risk management, driven by the evolving macro trends shaping our industry, including consumer preferences, regulatory requirements, and energy and supply chain demands. Guided by our Purpose, we leverage the HOM to drive results and engage our people, our products, and our partnerships to deliver more sustainable solutions for all stakeholders. View Sustainability Report
OUR PEOPLE
Our people shape Hillenbrand's success. Over the past year, we have focused on unifying our culture through our Purpose, while reaffirming our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) by developing additional governance measures and external DEI efforts. Some of these include:
- Governance around DEI through our DEI Steering Committee and
- Inclusion at Hillenbrand Council
- Company participation in the United Nations'
Women's Empowerment Principles - Development of a Global DEI Policy
- Participation in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index
- Development of a Global Health & Safety Policy
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Launching Business Resource Groups:
- Women of Hillenbrand: Advocating for the women of Hillenbrand and creating global connections that elevate women's voices and impact
- NEXTGen: Fostering career growth and building a global community of early career professionals
- Culture HIve: Championing the gift of culture by fostering an environment where diversity of perspectives is celebrated
- HI Pride: Building a community for our LGBTQ+ associates and their allies through awareness, education, and outreach
- SERVE: Leveraging Veteran insights and increasing education about Veterans and the U.S. Military
OUR PRODUCTS
Our companies are continuously working with our customers to solve their needs and innovate new products. To name a few:
As the industry leader in co-injection technology, Mold-Masters' newest co-injection system made it possible for customers to create products utilizing up to 50% post-consumer recycled material. This advancement significantly minimizes the amount of virgin materials the customer must use in their products. This technology can be used for a variety of applications such as buckets/pails, chemical containers, refrigerator handles, toilet seats, and more. Additionally, Mold-Masters' co-injection systems can be used with customers' existing tooling and equipment and do not affect cycle times or overall productivity.
Coperion's engineers are continuously working on ways to decrease energy consumption of their products to benefit customers' businesses and reduce environmental impact. Within the extrusion and compounding process, the extruder and its components typically consume a large amount of energy. To address this, these experts focus on ensuring that Coperion extruders reliably deliver the highest product quality at high throughput rates and that the amount of energy required for extrusion and compounding is as minimal as possible. With innovative technology, Coperion has found that its extruders have achieved an average energy savings of 8-14%.
OUR PARTNERSHIPS
Sustainability-related opportunities cannot be achieved through business alone but require developing and maintaining partnerships with our customers and our communities. We take pride in developing and maintaining partnerships with organizations in the communities in which we operate to effect positive change. Some of these key partnerships this past year have been:
Net Impact: Hillenbrand and Net Impact, a global non-profit focused on engaging students on critical social and environmental issues, partnered to address circularity in plastics. This partnership calls upon student innovators at all levels of study in 2022 to ask, “how might we rethink the plastics supply chain to improve material circularity to keep plastics in the economy and out of the environment?”
Girls Inc.: Hillenbrand is a national sponsor of the STEM and College and Career Readiness program of Girls Inc., a national non-profit that equips girls with the skills to navigate through economic, gender, and social barriers.