Sustainability - VTU Engineering

The resilience of our planet is already being stretched to its limits, and climate change is a fact. We therefore consider it both a necessity and a duty to do our very best to bring about a change in the current situation.

The VTU Group aims to integrate environmental, social and economic sustainability aspects into its corporate management and project work. In doing so, we focus particularly on occupational safety, compliance, resource efficiency and supporting our industrial clients in developing more efficient plant concepts. The larger a company becomes, the greater its responsibility in both social and environmental matters. We meet this responsibility in our internal processes as well as in our engineering projects, where, in addition to environmental considerations, the safety, health and satisfaction of our colleagues and partners are given high priority. As a guideline, we follow, among other things, high standards for sustainability reporting (GRI) and sustainability assessment (EcoVadis, CDP).

Our greatest potential for impact lies in external projects, where we work together with our industrial clients to design process plants in which energy and resource efficiency are considered and optimized within the respective technical, regulatory and economic requirements. We also incorporate technologies for the recirculation, reuse and recovery of material streams.

At the same time, we are intensifying our activities in innovative projects, for example in the use of hydrogen as an energy storage medium, the recycling of plastic waste, or the recovery of solvents from waste streams. Where applicable to the specific project, we are guided by the principles of Green Chemistry as well as relevant technical standards and current developments. The experience gained from these projects can help reduce energy consumption, resource use, waste streams and emissions on a project-specific basis.

As an engineering services company, our direct environmental impacts mainly arise from areas such as energy consumption at our locations, business travel, mobility and procurement. We also aim to systematically monitor and reduce these impacts.

The VTU Mission Statement, the VTU CSR Policy and the VTU Code of Conduct (CoC) serve our employees as an expression of our commitment to securing a sustainable future and as navigation tools for all our decision-making processes. The CSR policy focuses on the fields of human rights, diversity/inclusion, the fight against corruption and the handling of business partnerships, the environment, health and safety, and is considered a “guidance document”. The Code of Conduct can be considered to be a derived and definitive set of guidelines, and consists of a set of rules and requirements for appropriate managerial conduct and general conduct in day-to-day business, with the focus on covering the following areas:

Health and safety
Sustainability
Legal compliance
Human rights
Diversity/inclusion
Environmental protection
Protection of the material and intellectual property of VTU
Prevention of corruption, bribery and money laundering

The ideas and principles that we define for these fields also apply to all our other areas of our activity. They are not only aimed at the employees of VTU, our business partners and subcontractors; we also invite all other stakeholders to join us on the journey to a sustainable future.

SUSTAINABILITY COMMITMENT: With our CoC, our CSR policy and our Science Based Targets, which were validated by the SBTi in 2024, we commit ourselves to

continuously look for ways to reduce our ecological footprint and CO₂ emissions in the interests of protecting the environment
act ethically and socially responsibly
consider the relevant requirements and integrate all the stakeholders affected by our actions

In the event of an infringement, all of our employees are required to report such matters to their direct manager or to a dedicated internal email address or to contact the “VTU Compliance Line” anonymously.

Download: Code of Conduct

Download: Supplier Code of Conduct

Download: CSR Policy