Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

The company, GOB.XETRA (ST GOBAIN), primarily designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and solutions for construction, mobility, healthcare, and industrial markets. The provided articles detail its philanthropic activities through the Saint-Gobain Foundation and community engagement, focusing on supporting community projects, social housing, professional integration, and general educational initiatives.

However, none of the articles provide evidence that the company offers financial services, lending, or deposit products to consumers. Therefore, all KPIs related to financial services, such as underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, inclusion initiatives (in a financial context), data accessibility (for financial data), fair lending compliance, wealth building outcomes, debt burden ratio, geographic inclusion (for financial access points), and product simplicity (for financial products), are not applicable to the company's core business as evidenced. While the company's foundation invests in community projects and supports general education, the specific financial metrics required by the rubric for 'profit reinvestment' in community finance and 'financial literacy initiatives' are not provided in the context of financial services or as a percentage of pre-tax profit.

Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

No specific quantitative data was found across the provided articles for any of the KPIs related to Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing. While the company mentions commitments to ethical purchasing, supplier charters, and risk mapping, it does not provide percentages for fair-trade certified spend, average audit frequency, number of forced or child labor incidents over the last three years, traceability coverage for suppliers, median days to close corrective actions, or the percentage of procurement budget directed to diverse suppliers.

Information regarding ethical clauses is limited to a financial threshold for mandatory inclusion, not a percentage of all suppliers. Similarly, the share of spend on high-risk materials is not quantified.

Honest & Fair Business

Saint-Gobain has a formal whistleblower policy, accessible to employees and all other stakeholders via a secure platform and hotline, allowing anonymous submissions.

The policy protects whistle-blowers from disciplinary action, legal proceedings, or retaliation for good-faith alerts. Reports are acknowledged within 7 working days, and admissible alerts are investigated within 3 months (90 days) of acknowledgement. The company's board of directors has 91% independent directors. An anti-corruption policy is in place, with 98.6% of managers trained in 2024 and 94% trained in 2020 on anti-corruption. The policy prohibits facilitation payments and includes assessing corruption risk in relationships with third parties. However, the extent of independent verification of ethical claims is limited to this assessment of third-party corruption risk, with no broader percentage provided. No specific data on regulatory fines, transparency index scores, financial restatements, audit coverage, or ESG controversy scores is provided.

Kind to Animals

Saint-Gobain Bioprocess Solutions is moving away from unnecessary animal testing, utilizing a risk-based approach, and employing USP <87> and/or ISO 10993-5 testing for cytotoxicity claims on fluid path single-use tubing, components, bags, and assemblies.

The company's policy is to reduce and replace animal testing on single-use products. Saint-Gobain is aligning with industry organizations like USP and ISO, which have revised their biocompatibility guidance to emphasize a risk-based approach to testing, with implementation beginning in Q4 2024 and for raw material changes in Q2 2024.

No War, No Weapons

Saint-Gobain requires end-user certificates for exports to all countries except a list of developed nations (EU, USA, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, and UK), indicating that a significant portion of its exports are covered by such certificates.

The company has been a signatory to the UN Global Compact since 2003 and is committed to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. An annual questionnaire is sent to all countries to collect information on local actions to disseminate and explain the Principles of Conduct and Action. The company's Code of Ethics is constituted by its Principles of Conduct and Action. Saint-Gobain has a High-risk minerals policy. An alert system is in place for reporting breaches of the code of ethical conduct, law, and internal policies. The company classifies some products, such as Quartzel, as dual-use, implying a screening process, but the percentage of items screened is not specified.

Planet-Friendly Business

Saint-Gobain's total Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions for 2023 were 17.8 Mt CO2e (9 Mt Scope 1 & 2, 8.8 Mt Scope 3).

The company's 2030 targets for Scope 1 and 2 emissions (33% absolute reduction from 2017 levels) and Scope 3 emissions (16% absolute reduction from 2017 levels) have been validated by the Science Based Targets (SBT) initiative and are aligned with the UN Global Compact's "Business Ambition for 1.5°C" pledge. In 2023, the company's decarbonized electricity consumption was 57%. In 2021, 40% of its global electricity consumption in the US was from renewable sources. A 20-year Power Purchase Agreement in France is expected to cover 10% of electricity needs from renewables starting in 2026-2027. The company reported a 20% reduction in water withdrawals by the end of 2022 compared to 2017 levels, with a target of 50% reduction by 2030. Saint-Gobain has a carbon neutrality target for 2050. The company has incurred $78,937,469 in environment-related penalties since 2000, including a $55,900,000 PFAS violation and a $20,000,000 drinking water violation. In 2024, the New Hampshire state government requested Saint-Gobain to sample wells potentially contaminated with PFAS chemicals, which the company refused, leading the state to intend to recover sampling costs.

Respect for Cultures & Communities

Saint-Gobain North America reported zero formal partnerships with indigenous or local community groups.

The North American subsidiary also reported zero revenue reinvested in local community development projects and zero total donations, which implies 0% of revenue donated to cultural heritage organizations.

Safe & Smart Tech

The company's privacy statement outlines user rights, including access, correction, erasure, restriction, and objection to data processing.

It states that data is retained only as necessary, with varying retention periods. The company also mentions compliance with GDPR and other legal obligations. There are no documented incidents of unauthorized data use. A cyberattack was reported, but no details on its severity, impact, or duration were provided, preventing assessment of data breach severity.

Zero Waste & Sustainable Products

Saint-Gobain is developing take-back programs and partnerships to recover waste from customer activities, including renovation and demolition, which covers some products.

The company focuses on designing products for durability, repairability, and eventual recyclability, integrating eco-innovation principles and aiming to improve product recyclability and ease of disassembly. Waste reduction initiatives include reducing raw material volume, cutting industrial waste, implementing pallet reuse programs, and reducing box variations. The company's sustainable resources management policy, introduced in 2015, aims for "zero non-recovered waste." Saint-Gobain invests in robust data collection systems for its global operations, and its Glass Business facility in Sriperumbudur has achieved "Zero waste to landfill" status. The company engages with suppliers to foster decarbonization throughout the value chain and educates homeowners and contractors on sustainable building practices, including waste and construction waste retrieval services. Saint-Gobain is participating in discussions on lighter construction solutions integrating fewer materials. The company uses paper packaging tape instead of plastic and aims to change formulations to reduce dangerous substances, avoiding their dissemination during recycling.