Sustainability

Building a sustainable industrial future starts with a clear strategy. Yet many companies struggle to align ambition with action – especially across complex operations and stakeholder landscapes. With EFESO’s sustainability strategy and roadmap, we help you define a clear, actionable path toward your ESG goals. And we work alongside you to make it happen. Together, we shape an industrial sustainability vision that is deeply rooted in your business and operating strategy.

We begin by aligning your sustainability maturity with the pace and structure of your transformation program. Using proven facilitation approaches, we work alongside your teams to build a tailored materiality matrix – one that reflects your sector, supply chain, and long-term business priorities.

From there, we co-develop a strategic roadmap across all key ESG topics. This includes:

• Setting phased, science-based targets
• Prioritizing initiatives in context with other ongoing programs
• Defining the levers that will improve ESG ratings and stakeholder impact

What sets our approach apart is integration. Sustainability becomes more than a vision – it becomes part of your corporate strategy, your operating model and your daily decision-making. We enable this through proven transformation methodologies and digital technologies to accelerate results and enhance transparency. From strategy workshops to implementation support, EFESO helps you turn ESG ambitions into measurable outcomes – embedded at every level of the organization.

Together, we make sustainability real, actionable, and future-proof – so your company can lead with clarity and purpose in the transition to sustainable industry.

Achieving industrial sustainability requires more than isolated improvements – it demands an integrated transformation of products, processes, and value chains. This means reducing resource consumption, enabling recyclability and minimizing environmental and social impacts across the entire lifecycle. EFESO supports companies in navigating this transition by combining classic efficiency levers – such as operational excellence and digitalization – with a broader view of the environmental, social, and institutional footprint of the value creation network.

• Sustainability Assessment and Roadmap

Every successful transformation begins with clarity. EFESO’s Sustainability Assessment provides the transparency needed to understand whether current goals can be met – or if structural and procedural adjustments are required.

We evaluate all transformation-relevant dimensions:

• Business model & strategy
• Management systems & organization
• Culture & competencies
• Product development & lifecycle
• Production, supply chain & operations

Together, we calculate your current carbon footprint and define actionable targets across key areas including resource efficiency, decarbonization, circular economy and service-based models. Using a materiality matrix we prioritize topics, define initiatives within a sustainability agenda, and consolidate everything into a clear, implementation-oriented roadmap.

Our goal: to improve your balance of sustainability and performance while unlocking strategic and operational gains – such as product competitiveness, resource access, technology integration and risk mitigation. The roadmap also ensures alignment with evolving regulatory, macroeconomic and technological frameworks.

• Realizing Transformation

To activate change, EFESO focuses on six core areas:

• Product Portfolio & Lifecycle: Design for circularity, lifecycle extension, and eco-innovation
• Dematerialization: Use of digital solutions to reduce resource intensity
• Manufacturing & Supply Chain Footprint: Reconfigure networks for resilience and low impact
• Future Factory: Implement modular, flexible, low-energy systems
• Operational Excellence & Change: Embed learning, leadership, and change capabilities
• Value Network: Align external stakeholders on shared sustainability KPIs and gains

Together, we turn your sustainability strategy into real, measurable transformation.

Today’s industrial investments shape tomorrow’s sustainability outcomes. From energy consumption and emissions to resource use and waste management, every operational decision contributes to your long-term environmental footprint. EFESO supports organizations in transforming operations into a driver of sustainability. Together, we help reduce Scope 1 emissions and integrate environmental, health, and safety (EHS) targets into your operational excellence framework – without compromising performance.

We begin by developing a target picture for the zero-impact factory, leveraging a library of use cases for energy efficiency, green energy sourcing and resource optimization. In partnership with leading technical experts we assess your baseline, define decarbonization roadmaps and support the implementation of actions toward carbon neutrality.

To embed sustainability in daily operations we design and deploy a dedicated sustainability pillar within your performance system – introducing “zero loss” routines and “run to target” practices that promote continuous environmental improvement.

We also support your teams across five core operational areas:

• Operational Excellence (OPEX): Integrating sustainability into decision-making through new KPIs, management systems, and digital twin simulations
• Digitalization: Creating real-time visibility and decision support across processes to reduce waste and emissions
• Future Factory: Designing sustainable factory concepts and investment plans for both existing and greenfield sites
• Energy Efficiency: Identifying and implementing energy-saving initiatives across all project phases – from audits to continuous improvement
• Resource and Quality Optimization: Using data and AI to reduce waste and energy usage across systems

Finally, we ensure full traceability by capturing and linking material, process, and product data – including for recycled products.

Together, we turn sustainability from a compliance issue into a performance lever – creating operations that are efficient, responsible and built for the future.

Procurement and supply chains are at the center of sustainable transformation. With suppliers accounting for up to 80% of emissions, real impact – and real solutions – must come through procurement strategies and supply network redesign.

EFESO works with your teams to embed sustainability into every layer of your value chain. We start by integrating environmental and social criteria into procurement strategies, governance models and operational processes. Together, we define Scope 2 and Scope 3 emission targets, enhance supplier ESG performance, introduce sustainability KPIs as part of steering mechanisms and co-develop clear, achievable decarbonization initiatives.

But transformation goes beyond compliance. We help you move from linear to circular supply chains – leveraging tools such as digital supply chain twins or control towers to simulate, monitor and optimize sustainability performance in real time.

Our approach combines two essential approaches:

• Reducing your exposure to sustainability-related risks such as energy availability, raw material volatility and regulatory pressure
• Measuring your organization’s own impact across decarbonization, biodiversity, ethical sourcing and resource use

By connecting these we help you to prioritize actions, establish low-impact networks and future-proof your operations. Whether it’s reshaping global transport flows, building local-to-local networks, or digitizing physical supply processes, EFESO ensures that your sustainability ambitions translate into tangible results – without compromising efficiency or resilience.

Together, we turn your supply chain into a measurable driver of environmental and business value.

The manufacturing industry must reduce environmental impact across the full product lifecycle – even in areas beyond its direct control. This calls for a holistic, structured approach.

EFESO works side by side with your teams to improve the footprint of your products, software, and services – across the full lifecycle – by aligning strategy, development, and governance with measurable environmental and business impact.

Together, we:

• Evaluate the business and customer value of eco-friendly features
• Conduct relevant product lifecycle assessments and co-create optimization ideas
• Build awareness and competencies across development functions
• Align your product development and portfolio governance
• Identify capability gaps and non-integrated methods
• Define the governance required to drive measurable progress

Our goal is to help you create sustainable products that deliver both environmental and business value – by design. We do this through a collaborative, practical approach focused on real outcomes, turning sustainability from a mandate into a competitive advantage.