Eight members of the Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group receive EcoVadis status.
In the future, ecovadis will be used as a comprehensive sustainability assessment tool in all RSRG markets.
With Rhomberg Sersa Ireland, Rhomberg Sersa Deutschland, Rhomberg Bahntechnik, Bahnbau Wels, Sersa Schweiz as well as Donatsch und Söhne, Sersa Maschineller Gleisbau and Sersa Technik, a total of eight companies within the Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group have received the coveted EcoVadis status – with the first two even receiving gold status!
The RSRG companies are now part of the 285 companies in the rail and road transport sector that hold EcoVadis status. With Silver status, they are among the top 25% of all 85,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis, and with Gold status they are even among the top 5%.
The latest member to achieve EcoVadis Gold status is Rhomberg Sersa Ireland. “On behalf of Rhom-berg Sersa Ireland and the team, we are delighted to have been awarded Gold status by EcoVadis,” stated Billy Stamp, Managing Director of RSIE, when the company received the excellent news earlier this year. “We take our responsibility towards the environment, workers, human rights and ethics very seriously. This is confirmed by receiving this award.”
Ecovadis SAS is the world's largest and most reliable provider of sustainability ratings for companies. The company examines, among other things, how well a company has integrated the principles of sustainability - environmental as well as social and governance issues - into its business and management system. The ratings are based on international sustainability standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative, the United Nations Global Compact and ISO 26000, which cover over 200 categories and more than 160 countries. The Sustainability Scorecard uses 21 indicators in four topics to assess performance: Environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement.
For the Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group, the eight award-winning companies are just the beginning: In the coming months and years, the aim is for more companies within RSRG to be awarded EcoVadis status. Another goal is to make RSRG climate-neutral in the medium term. To this end, the group of companies focuses on increasing and promoting sustainable energy systems such as solar power, green electricity or district heating, on increasing the proportion of recyclable materials in our waste by separating it by type, for example, and on reducing fuel consumption in our vehicle and machine fleet by switching to eco-diesel or promoting e-mobility.
