Building a sustainable business

Setting our sustainability strategy

Sustainability is at the heart of our purpose, delivering value beyond measure. Every day, we support our customers with data and insights to help them manufacture and develop new products to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive.

Sustainability, underpinned by our Values: Be true, Own It and Aim high, is embedded across our strategy and business model, enabling us to capture the opportunities arising from global trends, changing regulation and evolving stakeholder expectations.

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Net Zero

Our Net Zero ambition is at the heart of our sustainability strategy. We have set targets to be Net Zero in scope 1 and 2 by 2030 and scope 3 by 2040, covering everything from our operations, to our products and supply chain.

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Nature

As a Group with a global footprint, we recognise our role in protecting and regenerating nature where we can, both at our sites and in our supply chain aligned to our purpose of making the world cleaner, healthier, and productive.

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Climate Risk

Climate risks and opportunities have guided our response to climate change since 2021. We consider the impacts of transition and physical risks as well as opportunities in our approach to transitioning to Net Zero and our Strategy.

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Diversity and Inclusion

To build our business for the future, we need the best team – a diverse mix of people and skills, where different ideas can grow, and where everyone can succeed.

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Supply Chain

Supply chain is where we can have the biggest sustainable impact, which is why we have set our ambition to be Net Zero in scope 3 by 2030, and published our new Global Supplier Code of Conduct.

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Health and Safety

The Group is committed to the highest standards of health and safety and to maintaining a proactive safety culture.

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Mental Health

We are creating an environment where mental health is a continuous and open topic of discussion, where seeking support is encouraged, and where there is always a network of individuals and programmes that are ready to provide help.

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Ethics

The way we do business and the way we treat our colleagues matters to us. We recognise that continually nurturing and developing the ethical culture of our organisation and demanding the same high standards from our partners and suppliers, helps to build trust with all our stakeholders and supports our business model and the successful execution of our strategy to realise long-term, sustainable growth.

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Tax

Spectris manages its tax affairs in accordance with a number of objectives found here. Our tax strategy supports the Group’s strategic objectives and applies equally to UK and to non-UK taxes and to all forms of tax including corporate income and indirect taxes as well as taxes associated with employees.

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Sustainability reporting

We are committed to transparent and meaningful reporting of our approach to sustainability to ensure we can clearly understand and explain our impacts and progress, and respond appropriately. We report our environmental impacts including our carbon footprint, and progress against our Net Zero ambition annually through our annual report and CDP disclosures, whilst also responding readily to relevant regulations and reporting indices. On an annual basis, we undertake third-party assurance on our carbon footprint emissions and energy consumption, including of three scope 3 categories.

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