In focus: How does Robatech implement sustainability?

30. October 2024 2 min.

Students of the CAS course 'Sustainability as a success factor' at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and participants from the Aargauische Kantonalbank (AKB) sustainability promotion program learned about Robatech AG’s sustainability projects in Muri on October 8, 2024. This gave them valuable ideas for designing and implementing their own initiatives.

Committed to sustainability in the company: from left to right Patrick Küng, AKB; Martin Meier, Robatech; Dr. Pavlina Pavlova, FHNW; Tim Paduch, Robatech.

After a tour of the production halls, Tim Paduch, Sustainability & Compliance Manager at Robatech, presented the students with sustainability projects which have already been implemented as well as ongoing projects. The project to determine the product and company carbon footprint was one of the three most innovative in 2023 as part of the Aargauische Kantonalbank (AKB) promotion program. ‘I am impressed by how Robatech AG deals intensively and seriously with the issue of sustainability right up to top management,’ says Patrick Küng, expert jury member of the AKB promotion program and Head of AKB’s Corporate Clients & Institutional Banking division. It was exciting for him to see at this event how Robatech has developed since the promotion program.

Insight into practiced sustainability

With the information afternoon at Robatech, Dr. Pavlina Pavlova, Program Manager of the CAS course and also Coordinator of the AKB promotion program, gave her students an insight into how a family business with an international focus puts sustainability into practice. ‘Robatech specifically provides resources for the issue of sustainability and authentically communicates the topic to the world. The family atmosphere within the company, with its subsidiaries and partners in over 80 countries, facilitates implementation,’ explained the CAS Manager. ‘It is also a positive sign that the employees initiate, support and actively implement sustainability projects as a matter of course.’

Martin Meier, CEO of Robatech, added: ‘This creates a special dynamic in our initiatives. Employees really put a lot of effort into the project to avoid plastic packaging. We currently use 50 % less plastic per year. That’s remarkable!’ Robatech AG wants its products to be packaged plastic-free by the end of 2025.

Further information on sustainability at Robatech can be found in the Environmental Social Governance Report (ESG).