JOST Werke : Sustainability Report 2020

SUSTAINABILITY

2020

REPORT

ABOUT

JOST

Sustainability at a Glance

JOST is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of safety-relevant systems for the commercial vehicle industry with the core brands JOST, ROCKINGER, TRIDEC, Edbro and Quicke. JOST's internaonal market-leading posion is underpinned by its strong brands, long-term customer relaonships, served by its global sales network, and its efficient, low- investment business model. With sales and manufacturing facilies in 25 countries on five connents, JOST has direct access to all major manufacturers of trucks, trailers and agricultural tractors worldwide as well as to all relevant end customers in the commercial vehicle industry. JOST currently employs over 3,000 people worldwide and has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 20 July 2017.

Unit

2020

2019

Change in %

Financial indicators Sales

Adjusted EBIT Adjusted EBIT margin Innovaons

€ million € million %

794.4 73.2 9.2

736.3 76.8

+7.9 % -4.7 %

• 10.4 -1.2 % -points

Research & development expenses Research & development intensity Number of patent registraons

€ million %

17.2 2,2 12

13.2 1,8 17

+30.3 % +0.4 %-points -29.4 %

Employees

Number of permanent employees Number of temporary workersyearly average yearly average

3,055 373

2,911 378

+4.9 % -1.3 %

Accident rate

(reportable accidents per 1,000 employees) Connued professional development costs per employee

Accidents/1,000 employees

12.6

18.4

-31.5 %

€/employee

Proporon of female employees

Proporon of female employees in management posions

% %

138 14.0

388 13.2

-64.4 %

10.8

10.5

+0,8 %-points +0,3 %-points

Environment *

Proporon of producon sites cerfied according to ISO 14001

%

61

68

-7 %-points

CO2eq emissions intensity (Scope 1+2)*

kg CO2eq/prod. hour

5.7

6.0

-5.8 %

CO2eq emissions absolute (Scope 1+2)*

thousand t CO2eq

26.2

34.9

-24.8 %

Electricity consumpon intensity* Electricity consumpon*

Natural gas and district heang Intensity* Natural gas and district heang*

Water consumpon intensity* Waste*

in kWh/prod. hour million kWh kWh/prod. hour million kWh m3/prod. hour thousand t

8.2

7.4

+11.4 %

38.0

42.8

-11.2 %

7.9

7.2

+10.7 %

36.8

41.7

-11.7 %

0.02

0.03

-27.2 %

13.7

17.4

-21.5 %

Responsibility and compliance

Number of judicially determined discriminaon cases

0

Number of reported indicaons

25

0 8

0 % +68 %

*The 2020 figures exclude the Ålö Group, which was acquired as of February 1, 2020. The strong reducon of the producon capacity ulizaon due to the Corona pandemic led to distorons in the development of the environmental indicators.

FOREWORD BY THE EXECUTIVE BOARD

GRI 102-14

Dear business partners of JOST Werke AG dear readers,

The year 2020 was a challenging one for all of us. The global spread of the coronavirus has changed our lives fundamentally and challenged many of the things that we used to take for granted. Never before has the inseparability of business success and social responsibility been more clear.

Ensuring the health and safety of our employees and business partners was a parcularly high priority during this challenging me. Despite these adverse condions, we connued our research and development acvies in 2020 and proved a soluon-oriented and trustworthy partner assisng our customers in overcoming unprecedented challenges.

As a manufacturer of safety-relevant systems for the commercial vehicle industry, we maintained our service and spare parts deliveries to support road-based logisc transport without interrupons throughout the pandemic, helping ensure the flow of all necessary goods to the populaon at large and to hospitals. We were also able to maintain deliveries of our systems to farmers, thereby making our own contribuon to safeguarding the producon of food during the crisis.

Although the clear focus during 2020 was on the health of our employees and on supplying our customers, we connued to press ahead with important issues in the area of climate and environmental protecon. We set ourselves goals to further reduce our CO2 emissions and our energy

consumpon. We are currently invesgang ways to make even more efficient use of resources and materials and to connuously reduce the volume of our waste. By 2030 we want to reduce our scope 1 and scope 2 CO2 emissions per producon hour worldwide by 50 %, compared to the fiscal year 2020.

We believe it is important to embed sustainability at all levels within the company and to strike a balance between the commercial success of JOST and our social and ecological responsibility as a company operang on the internaonal stage. The successful history of JOST is based on our ability to adapt quickly, to idenfy trends at an early stage, and to develop future-oriented soluons hand in hand with our customers.

We have ambious plans! It now gives us great pleasure to present in this report the current status of our sustainability acvies, our goals, and our strategy and to share with you informaon on our path towards a more sustainable JOST.

The Execuve Board of JOST Werke AG

Neu-Isenburg, March 17, 2021

HOW JOST CONTRIBUTES

TO SUSTAINABILITY

In September 2015, the United Naons adopted seventeen global targets for sustainable global development as part of its Agenda 2030. The focus of these targets is on the pursuit of economic development that also take social and environmental aspects into account.

Parcipaon by the private sector has a decisive role to play in implemenng these targets by 2030. JOST is strongly commied to this agenda and will contribute to its implementaon through its corporate strategy and by engaging with its sustainability aspects.

During the 2020 fiscal year, JOST conducted an analysis of the seventeen overarching development targets and the 169 sub-targets. From this analysis, we derived targets and acon areas in which JOST, by virtue of its product

Goal 2 - Zero Hunger: JOST wants to market its products for agricultural tractors in developing countries. By doing so, we can make an important contribuon to increasing agricultural producvity in these countries, contribung to alleviate the risks of hunger.

Goal 4 - Quality Educaon: Through measures in the area of training and further vocaonal educaon,

JOST provides its employees worldwide with opportunies for professional advancement. Our apprenceship and talent management programs are aimed primarily at giving young employees new development prospects within JOST.

Goal 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth: JOST pursues ambious growth targets worldwide. In so doing, we pay aenon to the health and safety of all our employees and ensure that human rights and social standards are respected. This also includes prevenng all forms of discriminaon.

Goal 9 - Industry, Innovaon and Infrastructure:

As a market leader, JOST sees innovaon as the driver of its future growth. The development of eco-friendly products and processes that also meet the complex requirements of our customers is the key to our commercial success.

porolio and business acvies, can achieve the greatest impact on mankind, the environment, and society. With regard to future sustainability acvies, JOST will focus in parcular on the below listed acon areas that it has idenfied.

GRI 102-12

Furthermore, JOST supports the implementaon of more addional objecves. Parcularly worth menoning are Goal 3 "Good Health and Well-being", Goal 5 "Gender Equality" and Goal 10 "Reducing Inequality" in its dealings with employees and business partners.

Goal 11 - Sustainable Cies and Communies: With our systems, we can help make the delivery of goods to cies and rural areas more sustainable and more efficient. Part of our research and development work is focused on developing efficient transport soluons for the logiscs sector.

Goal 12 - Responsible Consumpon and Producon: JOST strives to minimize the consumpon of resources during its producon acvies. We are constantly working to make our producon processes more efficient and to reduce waste.

Goal 13 - Climate Acon: As a manufacturer catering to the transport industry, we want to reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions substanally and help our customers in their quest for carbon neutrality.

This important goal of our sustainability acvies is reflected in our product innovaons.