ESG

Our commitments and certifications

Purpose, Vision and Mission

“Together in a sustainable movement”

For more than a century, Pierhor-Gasser SA has been producing and supplying high-precision gemstones, using its ancestral know-how, which is constantly evolving and resolutely looking to the future, to serve our customers.

Training and developing a multicultural workforce has always been a major component of the company’s strategy and development, in order to meet the highest standards of our customers while ensuring the well-being of our teams.

The inalterability of our components, our commitment to production that is ever more respectful of the environment and the health of our employees, our compliance with standards and regulatory requirements, and our commitment to a value chain that is as local as possible, are all part of our responsible and sustainable policy in the service of our stakeholders.

Our values

RESPECT

We respect the personalities of our customers, the talents of the people who make up our company and the history of each of them.

INDEPENDENCE

We defend the freedom of our company. We act with complete autonomy and without executive or operational dependence. Independence is in our genes because it enables innovation, initiative and daring, and it will continue to inspire and energize our teams. It also explains why our production has achieved such a degree of successful vertical integration.

INTEGRITY

We insist on the principles of openness, loyalty, honesty and fairness among ourselves, with our customers and with our business partners.

Our strengths

INNOVATION

The ingenuity of our teams is at the service of our customers’ performance, enabling us to constantly innovate in useful and effective ways, and to constantly improve.

EXCELLENCE TECHNOLOGIQUE

La performance de nos machines, de nos services et de nos composants vise le plus haut niveau de qualité exigée par nos clients, selon les plus hauts labels du marché, notamment le Swiss Made mondialement reconnu.

SWISS MADE

This demanding quality label is at the heart of the Acrotec Group’s DNA.

CUSTOMER FOCUS

Our raison d’être is to unite talents in the service of our customers. Our overriding objective will always be to act every day to offer them the best possible quality of service, putting ourselves in their shoes as if these were our own objectives. We want to make them stronger, more efficient, more agile and more successful!

Our ESG Objectives

PIERHOR-GASSER SA is mobilized to meet environmental, social and governance expectations and thus respond to technical developments and the imperative of controlling its environmental impact.

To meet these challenges, PIERHOR-GASSER SA has adopted a policy based on 5 commitments:

  • Reducing our impact on the environment

  • Promoting the development of our employees

  • Contributing positively to our community

  • Participating in local economic promotion

  • Consolidating the Group’s exemplary corporate governance model

Our certifications

Best Managed Company

Recognition as a “Best Managed Company” by Deloitte is testament to our management excellence. Our strong governance, sustainable development strategy, ability to attract top talent and responsible financial management reinforce our commitment to operational excellence and transparency.

The Swiss Triple Impact program

The Swiss Triple Impact is a unique nationwide program enabling Swiss companies to measure their commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 by members of the United Nations, with the aim of achieving a more sustainable future by 2030. As participants in the STI program, we are committed to achieving four main goals.

Commitments

Direct contribution to the SDGs

Type of commitment

By 2028, 50% of VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) and flammable solvents will be replaced by alternative products, compared with none by 2023*.

* Alternative products with reduced impact on the environment and users’ health, and free from SVHC (Substances of Very High Concern). We aim to replace 100% of VOC and flammable solvents by 2030. The annual volume of VOC solvents is 4 t in 2022.

Core business

By 2028, we will reduce the production of industrial waste and effluents by 50% in proportion to the total volume of production, compared with 2023*.

* In 2022, the volume will represent 9 t of ordinary industrial waste and 4 t of hazardous industrial waste.

Internal operations

By 2026, 80% of our main suppliers will meet our responsible purchasing criteria and sign our Supplier Code of Conduct, compared with none in 2023*.

* Main suppliers by volume of purchases, representing 80% of our total purchases.

Supply chain

By 2027, we will have reduced the risk of work-related accidents and illnesses identified as major* by 80%.

* Based on the first workplace risk analysis carried out at the end of 2023.

Internal operations