Sustainable Development
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Our main principles
Making a commitment on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) aim at improving the role of Men and the protection of the planet in a economic activity, so that the performance of the company, is not only economic any more but global. In that way, our strategy is based on 3 principles :
- Reduce our ecological impact and help our customers and suppliers to do the same.
- Build long-lasting customer relationships with our customers by bringing them solutions to reach their goals.
- Strengthen our long term relationships by emphasizing the Human Relations and the Development.
A collective commitment
A governance at the service of Human...
- A diversification strategy to ensure the continuity of the business: Maximum 25% of sales by sector and 5% of sales for a client
- A massive a continuous investment: Over 2 million investments in 4 years
- A collective pay policy
- Employees are allowed to become shareholders and owners of Techné's buildings : a "Responsible Saving" with the creation of three SCI (= property investment company).
...in the respect of Human Rights...
- Nondiscrimination men/women and diversity: 57% of women in the executive committee of the group and 14 nationalities represented among employees
- A plan for older workers
- A lot of alternate trainee post : 17 work & study posts in 2015
- A major role in the development of local employment through our situation in rural area
- Work with adult training centers and reintegration centers
- Implementation of a control process with all our partners for the compliance of Human Rights
...and working conditions
- Flexible working hours and arranged week schedules: 3 employees in telework
- Techné participates in the financing of leisure activities and services to its staff: 2% of payroll spent on training
- A strong commitment on in-service training and skills development
- Techné commits on a hardship agreement
- A commitment to promote internal mobility
A social involvement
- Techné entrusts the purchase and maintenance of its bikes to a reintegartion center
- Active member of professional union ARTEMA
- We organize open doors for students, local residents and for employees' families
- A commitment, since 2004, in several humanitarian and charities projects: 2300kg of donation to Morocco, 4700 propagules of mangrove planted in Benin, ...
Customers' requests
- Elimination of substances harmful to health in materials
- Transparency in order taking
- A particulary care of customers' claims
- We encourage customers to visit the company
- We commit to integrate sustainable development criterias in the measure of Customer Satisfaction
Good business practices
- Practice-oriented approach by customer type
- Close relationships with our customers through our subsidiaries Techné Shanghai and Techné Turkey
- A business ethics approach
- A will to support our partners in the long term: 25% of our customers are our partners for more than 20 years
- Implementation of a responsible purchasing approach
Environmental care
- We recycle our wastes: 99,8% of waste recycled
- Photovoltaic cells on our new buildings
- Inland waterway transport for our containers
- Free of charge electric charging station to our employees and to our visitor's car.
- 100% of sales rep. trained in eco driving
- We commit to educate our employees to eco-gestures and to control our energy consumption