Month: February 2023

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As Henkel North America’s Director, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Clayton Sinclair works with leaders across the company to find ways to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into Henkel’s business and to help ensure that conversations about inclusion and celebrations of Henkel’s diverse workforce are happening on a continuous basis – not just during awareness months and around important holidays. He does see the merit, however, in using key moments in times like Black History Month to educate people on the past and help them understand how these events have shaped the society we live in today.

“It is important that people realize that Black history is American history, and that everyone – regardless of their race and ethnicity – understands the breadth and depth of the contributions of the Black community and the challenges they’ve faced and continue to face,” Clayton says. “It is impossible to understand or participate in the racial dialogue taking place today without understanding how we got here.”  

In Clayton’s view, Black History Month is one part of an ongoing journey of learning about other people’s histories and lived experiences. We need to learn more about the triumphs and achievements of Black Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans and all other groups and minorities whose stories are missing from history books. By having open and honest conversations, people of all backgrounds can take the opportunity to learn something new and better understand the role they can play in ending racial bias and injustice.  

“The Civil Rights Movement and the work of people like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. may have taken place over 50 years ago, but many of the injustices and freedoms they were fighting for are the same injustices and freedoms being fought for today,” said Clayton. “Racial bias continues to permeate our society and we need to keep putting in the work.”

“If everyone could do one small thing to try and end racism, we’d be shocked by how much we could accomplish,” Clayton says. “My father was a Freedom Rider, a student who rode the buses down to the Jim Crow south to advocate for racial equality. What first started as a bunch of kids taking small actions – like sitting at ‘white only’ counters’– set in motion an entire movement.”  

Changing perceptions and advocating for meaningful progress is everyone’s responsibility. Henkel takes that responsibility to heart. Clayton is inspired by the actions and passion he sees of people across Henkel who are standing up to be advocates and allies at work and in their communities. “Whether it’s joining Employee Resource Groups, participating in webinars with Henkel leaders and external speakers, taking online courses, or sharing personal experiences, education is taking place and the dialogue is constantly growing. Through this, the root of the issues and the work needed to solve them becomes less abstract.”

“In an ideal world, my position wouldn’t even exist, and if we continue to put actions behind our words, hopefully one day it won’t,” he says. “Until that day comes, however, we must keep having hard conversations about race and push through the discomfort. We must recognize that the history we’ve been taught has been done so through a white lens and is therefore limited. There is so much to learn if we venture outside our bubbles and listen to take small steps that make a big impact in creating a more just world.”

SWORDS, Ireland, February 15, 2023 /3BL Media/ – Trane Technologies (NYSE:TT), a global climate innovator, has been named one of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes.

To compile this year’s list, Forbes partnered with market research company Statista to survey 45,000 workers from some of the largest companies in the United States. The workers were asked to rate their willingness to recommend their employers to family and friends, in addition to rating other companies in their industry on factors like working conditions, salary and potential for development.

Inclusion on Forbes’ America’s Best Large Employers is the latest prestigious ranking Trane Technologies has received this year. Earlier this month the company was named to FORTUNE Magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies list for the eleventh consecutive year, and in January, ranked 18th on the 2023 JUST 100 list, finishing first in the Building Materials & Construction industry.

“Our purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world starts with our people,” said Mairéad Magner, senior vice president and chief human resources officer, Trane Technologies. “We’re committed to creating an inclusive, uplifting and engaging culture where our team members can thrive and make a meaningful impact through our 2030 Sustainability Commitments. I’m proud to be recognized as one of America’s Best Large Employers and of the pride, energy and optimism our team brings to the table each day.”

Trane Technologies’ 2030 Sustainability Commitments include Opportunity for All, a pledge that commits to achieving gender parity in leadership, workforce diversity reflective of its communities, and community initiatives that support equitable education and pathways to green and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) careers. It also includes the company’s Gigaton Challenge – a pledge to reduce customer greenhouse gas emissions by one gigaton (or, 2% of the world’s annual emissions) by 2030 and our pledge to Lead By Example with carbon neutral operations and zero waste to landfill.

 

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About Trane Technologies

Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator. Through our strategic brands Trane® and Thermo King®, and our portfolio of environmentally responsible products and services, we bring efficient and sustainable climate solutions to buildings, homes and transportation. For more on Trane Technologies, visit www.tranetechnologies.com.

Our new Fellowship program is an investment in our people, their technical expertise, and their career growth. CRB‘s Bill Rattray, Senior Fellow – Biopharmaceutical HVAC, explains how the program taps into CRB’s core value of entrepreneurial spirit and gives people even more opportunities to contribute to the company. More on the Fellowship Program: https://hubs.ly/Q01srP3Y0

About CRB

CRB is a leading provider of sustainable engineering, architecture, construction and consulting solutions to the global life sciences and food and beverage industries. Our more than 1,600 employees provide world class solutions that drive success and positive change for our clients, our people and our communities. CRB is a privately held company with a rich history of serving clients throughout the world, consistently striving for the highest standard of technical knowledge, creativity and execution.

Innovation is at the core of Gilead’s 35-year history of life-changing medicines. Through bold and transformative science, Gilead has developed therapies that have brought about a cure for hepatitis C, helped to transform the treatment and prevention of HIV and provided breakthrough therapies for people with cancer. Today, our ambitions include delivering 10 or more transformative therapies by 2030 across virology, oncology and inflammation, and doing so in ways that ensure people who need these medicines can access them.

It’s this commitment to scientific excellence that prompted Flavius Martin, Executive Vice President, Research, to join the company in April 2021. As Gilead maps out its next decade, including plans for a new Research Center in Foster City, we talked with Flavius about Gilead’s history of innovation and plans for the future.

Q: As a relatively new leader, what were your impressions of Gilead when you first joined? 
It was no surprise what I found here: excellence in medicinal chemistry and virology, plus strong platforms to build on to expand the pipeline. I knew that Gilead had discovered and developed molecules that changed medicine by preventing, treating and curing viral diseases that many people thought couldn’t be prevented, treated or cured. That type of drive and history translates to the passion and excitement that’s evident in the culture and part of our secret sauce for success. A company’s ability to cure and transform the course of diseases is very energizing, and here I found a Research team completely committed to doing even more by developing and delivering the next generation of life-changing medicines.

Q: Where do you foresee innovation leading Gilead? 
Scientific research drives discovery at Gilead, and the potential of our future impact is unparalleled. Our teams are laser-focused on developing and advancing long-acting HIV treatment options, eliminating viral hepatitis and creating transformative therapies in oncology and inflammation. Growth in certain areas is essential. We are building internally as well as looking externally, such as our recent acquisition of MiroBio, a U.K.-based biotechnology company that hopes to restore patients’ immune balance through agonist antibodies. The unique platform technology that MiroBio developed has the potential to produce novel agonist antibodies targeting immune inhibitory receptors, which we believe may be the foundation of future therapies for a range of unmet medical needs in treating inflammatory diseases. Another notable partnership is with MacroGenics, to develop bispecific antibodies to treat cancer. Working with MacroGenics, we’re aiming to create potential new therapies for certain blood cancers, such as acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.

Collaborations with colleagues in Development, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing (PDM), Commercial, Corporate Development, Legal and beyond are also critical and help provide the spark that ignites innovation. All of this research experimentation and collaboration across Research and with other teams requires ample physical space, which is why we’re embarking on the creation of a new Research Center in Foster City.

Q: What will the new Research Center offer? 
The decision to build a new Research Center was a result of thoughtful analysis and driven by our company’s enterprise Master Plan. A key tenet of the Master Plan is to create an internal research infrastructure that catalyzes our ambitions in the three therapeutic areas. This new center will do just that by helping further accelerate and scale our ability to create new solutions to serious medical challenges. The investment in the center was driven both by capacity and capability needs. Our Research teams in oncology and inflammation are expected to outgrow their current space on the Foster City campus in the near future. In addition, there are new technology capabilities we needed to bring in-house. The goal with this center is to address these needs, while creating a highly collaborative hub for Gilead’s community of researchers. The location for the new Research Center is slated to include approximately 175,000 square feet of flexible, digitally enabled lab space. By optimizing resources, more than 45,000 square feet of existing office space will also be reclassified as lab areas, enabling overall campus flow while creating increased lab concentration.

Q: How does the new Research Center complement our sustainable design principles and the needs of our scientific community? 
Being socially responsible and environmentally sustainable is part of our DNA at Gilead. The Foster City campus is already heralded as one of the most sustainable biotech campuses in the world – evidenced by its use of renewable energy, large scale solar installations and eco-friendly infrastructure. Our existing research hub is one of the few LEED Gold research centers in the industry, something that makes us very proud. This new design will also be heavily informed by input from our Research teams, who will prioritize flow, collaboration and accessibility to the latest technologies. We don’t often get to build infrastructure at this scale, therefore I am looking forward to our Research teams partnering with the Corporate Operations team to ensure a distinct home that is socially responsible for our community of scientists. The new research center will build on our history of success in this space, redefine sustainability standards for research buildings and allow us to attract and retain top scientific talent.

Note: The new Research Building design is under scope and hasn’t yet been finalized.

Originally published by Gilead Sciences https://stories.gilead.com/articles/4-questions-with-flavius-martin

This article was originally published in Sustainable Brands.

The cost of a 30-second advertisement during the Super Bowl has risen about half a million since last year, to $7 million in 2023. With consumers increasingly making purchasing decisions based on their own values and beliefs, companies might consider the impact of that $7 million on causes and issues that matter to their stakeholders. 

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Cummins

Global power technology leader Cummins Inc. is expanding its partnership with Water.org, providing over $500,000 in grants to communities in Peru and the Philippines to help residents acquire much needed water infrastructure.

The project is part of Cummins Water Works, the company initiative to address the global water crisis by partnering with leading water experts to invest and engage in large-scale, high-impact water projects around the world.

Under PLANET 2050, Cummins environmental sustainability strategy, the company has established the goal to produce net water benefits that exceed Cummins’ annual water consumption in all regions where the company has a presence.

When Cummins Water Works was founded, the company immediately partnered with Water.org, the global non-profit organization that works to bring safe, accessible and cost-effective water and sanitation solutions to the communities that need them most.

The partnership has already resulted in providing access to sustainable water to over 400,000 people in Brazil, India and Mexico.

“The statistics surrounding the severity of the water crisis in the world are unbelievable,” says Scott Saum, Program Manager for Cummins Water Works. “We recently organized a panel discussion with Cummins leadership, Water.org and The Nature Conservancy, another of our key water partner experts, and learned some staggering evidence about water security. The discussion provided valuable insight to our employees of the situation at hand, and it is rewarding to know that our collaboration is making a difference.” 

Experts estimate about 785 million people in the world today lack access to safe water. About 2 billion people lack access to a toilet. Financially, the cost of not having access to clean water and sanitation is about $260 billion per year.

Families spend millions of hours collecting water, impacting school dropout rates in addition to hygiene-related diseases.

Today in the Philippines, 57 million people, out of  an overall population of 110 million, lack access to reliable, safely managed drinking water, and 43 million people lack access to safely managed sanitation services. Similarly, with Peru’s population of 32 million, 16 million lack access to safely managed drinking water, while 15 million lack access to safely managed sanitation services. 

The grants from the Cummins Foundation will help communities by providing affordable financing to obtain infrastructure including plumbing, pumps, taps, toilets and water storage tanks. 

Baker Hughes is recognized as an “industry mover” – among over 7,800 companies – by the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2023 and is No. 1 for customers in energy equipment and services category – “a stakeholder leader” in the industry– and in top 250 overall in the JUST Capital 2023 Rankings. In addition, EcoVadis, one of the leading sustainability ratings, rated Baker Hughes “silver” for its ESG performance, improving over last year’s “bronze” rating.

About S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2023 award

S&P Global is an international finance and analytics company that annually reviews the world’s most sustainable companies. Each company answers a comprehensive questionnaire that is subsequently analyzed alongside public environmental, social and governance (ESG) data.

Baker Hughes has been recognized as an “industry mover” in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2023. For this recognition, companies must score within the top 15% of their industry and must have achieved an improvement in their S&P Global ESG Score of at least 5% and achieved the strongest improvement in their industry. In Q4 of 2022, Baker Hughes’ S&P Global ESG score in CSA (Corporate Sustainability Assessment) was 57, up from 30 in 2021.

About JUST Capital Rankings 2023 and award 

Baker Hughes has ranked in the top 250 overall JUST Capital 2023 Rankings, as well as recognized as a stakeholder leader in the industry: No. 1 company for Customers in the Energy Equipment & Services industry.

Annual JUST Capital rankings are done through polling of American public for America’s largest publicly traded companies on the issues that matter most in defining just business behaviors.

About Ecovadis rating 

EcoVadis Ratings, world’s largest provider of sustainability ratings, is evidence-based and adapted to more than 200 industry categories, 175 countries and companies of all sizes. EcoVadis sustainability assessment evaluates how well a company has integrated the principles of sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) into its business and its management systems.

Baker Hughes was recently rated “silver,” placing the company’s overall score in 76th percentile as of December 2022 and significant improvement from its “bronze” rating in the previous year.

These awards demonstrate the company’s industry leadership in sustainability and help build its credibility with transparent, year-on-year progress on its sustainability strategy.

From our founding in 1973, our Founder and Executive Chairman, Fred Smith, knew the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion. In fact, during his acceptance of the National Civil Rights Museum 2022 Freedom Award, Mr. Smith acknowledged that to serve a diverse world, the company needed a diverse team with insight into cultures and communities.

It is in the spirt of this legacy we celebrate Black History Month at FedEx. FedEx has long invested in community organizations, such as those honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the many heroes of the Civil Rights Movement; advocacy organizations like the National Urban League and NAACP who work to empower African Americans, celebrate their culture and history, and promote economic empowerment through education, job training programs, and entrepreneurship; and provided support to HBCU institutions and students most recently through our $5M pledge.

At FedEx, we drive change by investing in organizations seeking long-term, systemic solutions to the challenge of creating a just society and economy that works better for everyone. By collaborating with nonprofits, we support learning, mentoring, professional development, and access to resources that help build strong connections.

We believe every individual should have the opportunity to dream big and realize what’s possible. Our goal is to give individuals the best chance at success with access to education, pathways to quality jobs, and a voice in their community’s future.

We are honored to join our team members as we celebrate and honor Black History Month. We invite you to learn more about our community support at FedExCares.com and the new Fact Sheet detailing our work within the African American community.