Responsible procurement
Materials and products are needed in all installation assignments, and Assemblin has an indirect responsibility for the impact these purchases can cause throughout the supply chain. This means that procutrement ad supplier governance is a sustainaiblity aspect that has increased in importance when taking human rights throughout the value chain into account.
As a responsible company, Assemblin also tries to take responsibility for the indirect impact on society and the environment that our purchases give rise to. This applies not least to climate impact and human rights.
Follow-up and control of climate impact at the supplier level
The climate impact from scope 3 is currently difficult to follow up due to a lack of available environmental data (EPD) for installation products. However, Assemblin puts a lot of focus on this and tests different methods to be able to make climate declarations in projects and to be able to make climate reports for its own operations. Read more about our climate work here.
Human rights in the supply chain
Although the manufacturing of the materials that Assemblin uses in the first and second stages of the supply chain often takes place in Europe, the raw material extraction and production further down the supply chain sometimes takes place in places with a higher risk of human rights violations than in Europe. Since the labor legislation means that we have a limited opportunity to be able to take responsibility for employees outside our own organization, we can indirectly influence the conditions for employees in other companies by making demands and actively cooperating with our suppliers and wholesalers. Assemblin's Code of Conduct for suppliers is one of the most important steering tools in this work. Other important control mechanisms are the requirements we set for our supplier assessments and the supplier follow-up that takes place in each business area.