Climate change, scarcity of natural resources, increasingly short economic cycles, and demographic change impact our markets and demand patterns, presenting new challenges to our business activities. As a customer, supplier, employee, or interested member of the public, you expect specific measures and responses from us. It is you who is paying increasingly more attention to how we deal with new challenges and how sustainably we manage our environment. Therefore, we have defined and structured our sustainability approach in various fields of action: Principles, Employees, Profitability, Environment, Society, and Region. We are working on deriving objectives for the future in order to become a more sustainable company. As an international company, we view these fields of action in terms of global responsibility for Würth Industry North America and WINWORK® (Würth Industrial NetWORK) companies specializing in the industrial sector. Sustainably profitable business and growth are of great importance to us. Sustainable business operations go hand in hand with long-term, healthy and reliable business relationships. Sustainable, conscious action by all employees and high standards regarding the careful use of all resources in accordance with a company’s economic objectives are no fad or trend, they form the basis of our daily activity and decision-making. We want to collaborate, grow, and create value with our customers, employees, and partners. Our business is based on legally compliant behavior, both internally and externally, in accordance with national law and the values of the corporate philosophy and management culture as a company in the Würth Group. General codes of conduct and guidelines within each department result in conscious actions by every employee and the internalization of values. Quality and process management, which concerns the optimization of all internal processes, also represents one of our key principles. We also seek purposeful dialogue with our customers, suppliers, employees, and the region. Jobs are directly linked with economic objectives. Growth secures jobs and training positions and enables jobs and further training opportunities to be created and developed. However, we know that growth is not everything and that satisfaction requires more than just a secure job. We are adding permanent contracts, flexible trust-based working hours, part-time work options and other additional benefits to our high degree of freedom and responsible tasks. We have taken measures to maintain the feel-good factor of our employees on a lasting basis. These measures target the well-being (work/life balance) of our employees and are intended to encourage them to assume personal responsibility in the areas of health, family, and career and to give them the appropriate instruments to do so.