Sustainability and CSR

In HOHNER AUTOMATION, S.L. we have defined a clear commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): to meet the needs of our customers and other interested parties through the personal and professional development of our staff, contemplating and involving all stakeholders in establishing a balance between economic, social, environmental and ethical aspects.

Our CSR values ​​are:

1. To the State
• To exercise strict compliance with its obligations in labour, tax, administrative, commercial and contractual matters in accordance with applicable legislation.
• To provide truthful and timely information at the request of the Administration.
• To act ethically and fairly in the processes of direct contracting, tenders and competitions and rigorously comply with the obligations deriving from them, with total absence of attitudes that may promote corruption, bribery and/or conflict of interest.
• To prioritise an ethical attitude towards public service personnel with a total absence of fraud and/or money laundering.
2. Towards the community in general
• To collaborate in the participatory construction of an ethical culture, through morally correct and reasonable business decisions, respecting the applicable legal framework and with a total absence of attitudes that could promote corruption, bribery and/or conflict of interest.
• To contribute to economic development with social justice in balance with the economic resources from its activities.
• To collaborate with social entities in our environment, favouring the integration into the labour market of people at risk of exclusion.
• To ensure the provision of goods and services meeting the highest standards of quality and suitability and pursuing progress through continuous improvement.
3. To the employees
• To respect the dignity and fundamental human rights of individuals.
• No one under the legal working age shall be employed and no forced or compulsory labour shall be used.
• Under a firm principle of equal treatment and equal opportunity, no discrimination of any kind will be permitted against employees on the grounds of race, nationality, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, association or political affiliation.
• To ensure that the remuneration received by employees is commensurate with the position held, training and professional experience and the legislation in force.
• To promote the integral development of our staff, training and welfare, encouraging work-life balance and continuous training.
• To encourage internal promotion on the basis of merit.
• To disseminate the values of an ethical culture.
4. Towards the business community
• To act with loyalty, transparency and good faith in commercial relations with competing companies, not using anti-competitive practices.
• To establish monitoring and follow-up mechanisms to guarantee the transparency of private contracting processes.
• To support the formation of a business community with ethical values, aware of its responsibility in the pursuit of social justice.
• To comply with the provisions that regulate intellectual property and ensure their observance.
• To comply with the legal and regulatory provisions applicable to the service provided.
• To comply with the provisions on the promotion of competition and restrictive business practices in national markets.
5. Towards creditor and supplier entities
• To provide accurate reports about the economic and financial situation of the company.
• To strictly comply with legal and contractual obligations..
• To refrain from illegal or unethical acts to the detriment of third parties.
• To Promote the creation of an ethical culture among creditors and suppliers.
6. Towards the environment
• Use clean technologies that ensure the conservation of the ecosystem and therefore refrain from misusing products, processes and technologies that are proven to harm the environment.
• Implementing energy efficiency, recycling and waste reduction measures, and prioritising suppliers committed to sustainability.
• Maintain ISO 14001 certification and develop other sustainability-related certifications.
7. Monitoring and continuous improvement
• Periodically review our CSR actions and measure their impact to identify opportunities for improvement, involving our staff in the definition and implementation of new initiatives.

ED. 2ª 30/06/25

ENVIRONMENT

Protection of the environment and contribution to fight against climate change.

Hohner has obtained the ISO 14001 Environmental Certification, accrediting our environmental management system that helps prevent environmental impacts.	Hohner supplies itself with solar energy through solar panels installed on the roofs of our facilities.	We have replaced our diesel vehicles with electric vehicles. Taking advantage of the power generation of our solar panels for consumption.	We are renewing our fleet of commercial cars with plug-in hybrid technology, in addition to offering charging points.
In the architectural design of our facilities we integrate devices that allow us to generate spaces of natural light.	At Hohner we promote actions such as Bicycle to Work Day to reduce pollution and encourage healthy habits among workers.

SOLIDARITY

Encourage solidarity with fundamental human values for a better world.

We create Hohner Christmas lots with products from charitable companies in our area. These companies help disadvantaged people, with diseases from our environment or climate change.	We regularly collaborate with La Marató de TV3. This is a solidarity project that obtains financial resources for scientific research into diseases that still have no definitive cure.	Hohner has collaborated with the #ConUnaSonrisa campaign by Nandu Jubany and CSTY to contribute to research at the Bellvitge University Hospital and the Catalan Institute of Oncology to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.	We have participated in the toy collection campaign organized by the Red Cross at Christmas and we have made various donations to the Banc dels Aliments entity that collects food for vulnerable families.
We continue to collaborate with the NGO Open Arms that protects the lives of the most vulnerable who are in international waters to leave their territory and are in emergency situations.	At Hohner we collaborate with sports entities at the local level to promote sport among girls, boys and young people in the municipality.

SOCIAL

Active and voluntary contribution to the social and economic improvement of society.

We have created an Equality Committee that has developed some actions to guarantee the same treatment and the same opportunities between men and women.	A harassment protocol has been drawn up available to the entire Hohner staff to respond to any situation of workplace, sexual or gender-based harassment.	We have a collaboration with a Special Work Center to cover the needs of factory personnel with people with functional diversity.	We are working on a social project aimed at the training and training of people in a state of social exclusion to facilitate their reintegration.
Every year at Hohner we organize an open day so that the relatives of our staff can attend to visit the facilities and get to know the work sites of the staff.	We sponsor Robotseny-Montquímic, an educational project that promotes technological and scientific vocations among Baix Montseny students.	We collaborate with schools in the company’s environment by organizing school visits to our facilities, as well as in educational projects to learn what an encoder is and its manufacturing process.	At Hohner we have collaborated in the La Caixa Foundation project whose objective is to reduce infant mortality in underdeveloped countries, promoting vaccination among the population.
Hohner we participate in the FOEG project called “Jo de gran vull ser com tu”, where business talks are organized in schools to bring this figure and its values closer.	We are members of the “Patronat de l’Escola Politècnica Superior de la Universitat de Girona”, which aims to facilitate technology transfer between university and business, to have an impact on the closest society.	Hohner is part of the Breda Industrial group. It is made up of different companies from the municipality and its surroundings, with the purpose of improving the management of infrastructures and services of the municipality and promoting the attractiveness of the town.