KSB and the United Nations Global Compact
Fair and sustainable business is a fundamental principle for KSB. The company is therefore a member of the UN Global Compact.
For KSB, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the compass for sustainable corporate management.
Sustainability as a corporate goal
Acting with responsibility towards people and the environment is an important concern for KSB and the basis of our entrepreneurial thinking. The company therefore chose to join the United Nations Global Compact(opens in a new tab) more than a decade ago, and uses the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (opens in a new tab) as guidelines for ensuring its actions are sustainable and geared to the future.
Around 26,000 companies worldwide have already signed the United Nations Global Compact. These include more than 1200 from Germany.
At KSB, the principles of the Global Compact apply to all managers and employees throughout the company. The company also requires suppliers and business partners to comply with the principles of the UN Global Compact.
Our approach to sustainability is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the principles of the UN Global Compact, and the requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
The 17 SDGs provide orientation
KSB is driven by the conviction that it can make an important contribution to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as an employer and through its products and services.
Adopted in 2015, the UN Global Compact’s sustainability goals to be achieved globally by 2030 include the following:
As a globally active industrial company with high ethical and ecological standards, KSB can make important contributions to almost all 17 SDGs. Improving global infrastructure, sustainable production and environmental protection measures are thus top priorities for our companies.
In order to add substance and clarity to the 17 SDGs within our company, we have used them to derive binding sustainability targets which relate to the period from 2025/2026 to 2030 and are regularly reviewed:
- KSB reduces its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25.2 percent (Scope 1 & 2) and 15 percent (material Scope 3 categories) compared with 2024.
- Renewable energy accounts for more than 80 percent of KSB’s electricity consumption.
- Water pumps sold by KSB save at least 26 gigawatt hours of energy annually.
- Power station pumps sold by KSB reduce greenhouse gas emissions during operation by 40 percent compared with 2024.
- The employee engagement index is more than 75 percent.
- Women make up at least 15 percent of managers at the first and at least 18 percent at the second management level below Group Management. The overall proportion of women in all management positions across the Group is at least 15 percent.
- The rate of occupational accidents resulting in lost time per million working hours is below seven (Lost Time Injury Rate).
- KSB is one of the leading companies with regard to training and professional development: Every employee completes an average of more than 32 hours of training per year.
- KSB assesses the potential sustainability risks of more than 400 current suppliers every year.
New KSB suppliers meet KSB’s sustainability standards. - All KSB purchase orders comply with the KSB Code of Conduct or a comparable code.
- All KSB employees with significant supplier contact participate in sustainability training every three years.
Our contribution to ensuring a clean water supply
Inherent to the function of KSB’s pumps and valves is their ability to make a decisive contribution to drinking water supply, improved hygiene and the production of renewable energy all over the world.
But we believe in taking ecological responsibility one step further: Our pumps are designed with such efficiency and increasing use of recyclable materials that their ecological footprint is as small as possible.
For a large part of humanity, clean drinking water is not a matter of course.
