Sustainability
As we navigate a rapidly evolving global landscape, our commitment to ESG remains resolute. Given the macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges, we also see this as an opportunity for innovation, collaboration, and the creation of positive change. When developing our sustainability strategy, we relied on a materiality analysis involving our relevant stakeholders, which helped us to develop a good understanding of which material ESG issues we should focus on. We also created a sustainability vision and mission, defined areas of action, ambition levels, targets & KPIs and derived measures for implementing the sustainability strategy.
Mission
Vision
Purpose
"For us at thyssenkrupp nucera®, there is no alternative to a responsible and sustainable business approach. It corresponds to our full conviction. By acting sustainably, we make a decisive contribution to society and long-term value creation. Our social responsibility and relevance are therefore much more than our technology for producing green hydrogen."
Werner Ponikwar, Chief Executive Officer
thyssenkrupp nucera
"As a supplier of electrolysis technologies, we contribute to changing the emissions balance of energy-intensive industries as a key instrument in achieving the climate targets. Sustainability is now being placed at the center of our strategies, with the ambitious goal of succeeding in creating an environmentally friendly hydrogen economy powered entirely by renewable energy."
Tuğçe Uysal, Head of ESG & Sustainability
thyssenkrupp nucera
"For us at thyssenkrupp nucera, there is no alternative to a responsible and sustainable business approach. It corresponds to our full conviction. By acting sustainably, we make a decisive contribution to society and long-term value creation. Our social responsibility and relevance are therefore much more than our technology for producing green hydrogen."
Werner Ponikwar, Chief Executive Officer
thyssenkrupp nucera
"As a supplier of electrolysis technologies, we contribute to changing the emissions balance of energy-intensive industries as a key instrument in achieving the climate targets. Sustainability is now being placed at the center of our strategies, with the ambitious goal of succeeding in creating an environmentally friendly hydrogen economy powered entirely by renewable energy."
Tuğçe Uysal, Head of ESG & Sustainability
thyssenkrupp nucera
Key Non-Financial Performance Indicators
| Kategorie |
KPI |
|
Target |
|---|---|---|---|
 Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
Scope 1 emissions [tCO2e¹] Scope 2 emissions [tCO2e¹] Scope 3 emissions [tCO2e¹] |
Scope 1: 286 tCO2e¹ Scope 2 (Location-Based): 561 tCO2e¹ Scope 3: 148.10 million tCO2e¹ (up- and downstream² in total) |
Scope 1+2 net zero³ by 2030 Scope 3 net zero³ by 2050 |
| Sustainability Requirements in Supply Chain |
Selected suppliers signed code of conduct [%] High risk supplier reduction [%] |
Selected: 84% |
Selected: 97% by FY 24/25 High risk: 54% by FY 24/25 |
| Diversity, Inclusion & Non-Discrimination |
Proportion of women in leading positions [%] | Proportion: ~17% |
25% of management positions in German office with women by 2028 Global extension of KPI under review |
¹ CO2e = CO2-equivalents
² 3.1 Purchased Goods and Services, 3.2 Capital Goods, 3.3 Fuel- and Energy-Related Activities, 3.4 Upstream Transportation and Distribution, 3.5 Waste Generated in Operations, 3.6 Business Travel, 3.7 Employee Commuting, 3.11 Use of Sold Products
³ We have committed to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain by 2050, meaning we will reduce our Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 100% in 2030 and scope 3 emissions by 100% in 2050. Scope 1 refers to greenhouse gas emissions that come from sources thyssenkrupp nucera directly controls, e.g., emissions from on-site vehicles. Scope 2 refers to indirect greenhouse gas emissions caused by purchased electricity, heat or steam for our headquarters, offices and other owned and operated facilities. Scope 3 covers other indirect emissions, including greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing and transportation of materials and finished goods that go into our products.
Improving access to clean water
We are particularly committed to social issues in the area of WaSH (water, sanitation, and hygiene). We are committed to ensuring access to clean water for all people. To this end, we entered into a partnership with the Dortmund-based NGO well:fair in September 2025. Our Dortmund neighbor builds wells in East Africa and equips schools and communities with sanitary facilities. Through its efforts, well:fair helps more than 400,000 people. The organization thus makes an important contribution to the sustainable promotion of health, education, and quality of life in the region. Among other things, our partnership with well:fair enables the construction of wells in Ethiopia and Tanzania.
Further information on the partnership can be found at the following link.
EcoVadis Gold rating
In August 2025, EcoVadis awarded thyssenkrupp nucera 82 out of 100 points in its sustainability rating. With this gold rating, we are among the top 5% of all companies worldwide that have been assessed over the past twelve months. EcoVadis highlighted the area of labor and human rights as particularly positive at thyssenkrupp nucera. The result reinforces our commitment to anchoring sustainability in our actions in a responsible and measurable way. It also provides important transparency for our stakeholders.
Further information on the EcoVadis rating can be found at the following link.
German Sustainability Award
We received the German Sustainability Award in the Products/Climate category for our standardized 20-megawatt electrolysis unit scalum®. Our modular and scalable technology promotes the ramp-up of the hydrogen economy and demonstrates how industrial solutions can make a real contribution to climate protection. The German Sustainability Award is presented by the German Sustainability Award Foundation. The five-member independent expert jury of the product competition chose thyssenkrupp nucera for its “leading role in the field of sustainability,” among other reasons, and praised scalum® as a “beacon in its sector.”
For more information on winning the German Sustainability Award, please visit the following link.
Downloads
You can download all relevant sustainability documents below.
Last Update: December 17, 2024
Sustainability Report 2023/2024
(incl. EU Taxonomy)
