In keeping with the Nordex sustainability strategy,we take a holistic approach to environmental protection and make regular organizational and technical improvements to continually reduce environmentally harmful emissions. The alliance is supported by the governments of, both German federal states. In fact, we areseeing growth in the number of applications andemployees, a promising indication that the sus-tainable nature of our business, growth, and theexpansion of our operations, which we continue tocommunicate across all our stakeholders, is havinga positive effect on our recruitment. Furthermore, we per-, form regular audits on the compliance status of our, quality management system, occupational health and safety, and environmental protection require-, ments. Nordex : Sustainability at the Nordex Group – Sustainability Report 2019 published, Nordex Lands Turbine Order for Turkish Wind Project, Siemens Energy's turbine troubles rattle wind sector, Nordex Wins Turbine Order for Erftstadt-Friesheim Wind Farm in Germany, Wind turbines: recycling industry warns of long-term waste problem, Boralex Announces Commissioning Of Wind Farm In France, Appoints New Senior Vice President, Deutsche Bank Research starts Nordex with 'Buy' - Target 17 Euro, NORDEX AG : Buy rating by Deutsche Bank, NORDEX AG : Goldman Sachs sticks Neutral. In the reporting year,we carried out a large number of site-specic mea-sures to reduce the volume of waste. We received no formal. implement efcient measures at other plants. Furthermore, when schoolsand nurseries were closed, Nordex granted parentsup to six days of special leave so that they couldlook after their children. As one of the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers, the Nordex Group offers high-yield, cost-efficient wind turbines that enable long-term and economical power generation from wind energy. The issue of occupational safety is becoming moreimportant not only to our employees and custom-ers, but also to the general public. Our upgrades made by the Nordex Group are precisely tting products developed not only to, improve the return on investment, but also to make, high availability and safety the top priorities. Africa needs energy in orderto grow, and renewable energies are the fastest,most sustainable and cost-efcient way of ensur-ing access to this energy. the form of an investment loan from the EuropeanInvestment Bank (EIB). #nxgnews, The Annual Wind Energy Congress, organized by the Spanish Wind Energy Association Asociacin Empresarial Elica (AEE),will take placetomorrowand Fridayin Madrid. The nacelle production site in Rostock, is also planning to create HSE videos and other. Our aim for a (post-)Covid-19 working environmentis to retain our ofces as the main working loca-tion, but to offer all employees some exibility toorganize their work in accordance with their needs.Meanwhile, we will further foster our global collab-oration, keep our employee engagement high, andalways clearly place a priority on the performanceof our company. Building on our Sustainability Strategy 2019 to2021, we plan to strengthen our stakeholder dialogin order to dene and reach the next milestones.The ndings from our corporate carbon footprintanalysis will play a key role in this context. We will continue this successful program to promote young talents in 2021, and will further develop it to meet the changing needs of theparticipants and the Company. REMARKS ON THE SEPARATE CONSOLI-DATED NON-FINANCIAL REPORT. The new course covers the, basics of HSE such as appropriate behavior in an, emergency, correct PPE usage, handling hazard-, ous materials, and performing tasks safely. According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), US wind power production has tripled over the past decade and there are now more than 54,000 wind turbines operating in 41 states as well as . Furthermore, Nordex will focus on striving for even, closer collaboration between the People & Culture, department and other departments to better understand how P&C can support the business. Forinstance, we develop customized solutions suchas site-specic towers, foundations, and specicoperating modes to optimize our customer'sbusiness case. the life cycle of our systems - from development, through sourcing, production, and operation includ, ing maintenance, to dismantling and recycling. In addition, we intend to implement furthermodules and will harmonize and standardize humanresources policies and processes worldwide. There were no material changes in the size, structure, or ownership of the Nordex Group nor in the supply chain in the period under review. To secure its operating busi-, ness, the Company also has access to a secured. This two-year training program imparts specialist knowledge about, routine servicing tasks as well as scheduled and, provides technical support here and has arranged. The Global Sustainability Management depart-ment is responsible for the Company's strategicdevelopment with regard to sustainability topics.The department is in constant contact with allareas of the Company to coordinate and managesustainability measures and meet our stakehold-ers' growing information requirements. SUSTAINABILITY REPORT As a company that is fully aware of its responsi- bilities, through our wind energy systems we aim to contribute to climate-friendly energy gener- ation - and ensure sustainable thinking is em- bedded in all areas of our Company. GRI 308/103, 308-1, 308-2, 407-1, 408-1, 409-1, 412-3, 414/103, 414-1, 414-2. Over fourdays, we held webinars on a range of topics suchas our product strategy, the Delta4000, and our services. Both the Works, Councils and the employees are comprehensively, informed about any signicant operational changes. For detailed information on how we achieved the targets of the Sustainability Strategy 2019 to 2021, see. We also established a Business Ethics commit-tee, which promotes the implementation and observance of our Code of Conduct, continuallyimproves the Code, and leads investigations intopossible material Code violations. We use the studies to analyze the environmental impact hotspots and initiate countermeasures. The aim is to uncover and put an end, to legal violations, to investigate potential ambi-, guities in this regard and, if necessary, intervene. construction and service-related suppliers (2019: 188). Together, with the communities, we plan to evaluate, reas-, sess, and adjust our activities within the frame-, Africa is the continent experiencing the fastest growth worldwide. Concrete residues, from our concrete tower production sites remain, a major source of waste. Along-, side these activities, we will focus on rolling out, our updated supplier due diligence processes as. The global maintenanceeffort has been signicantly reduced compared to the older Gamma generation. Our HSE performance was especially well, perceived, which is very important to us because, safety comes rst in everything we do. In keeping with the Nordex sustainability strategy, we take a holistic approach to environmental protection and make regular organizational and technical improvements to continually reduce environmentally harmful emissions. Nordex: Nordex : Sustainability Report 2022 Published - Owler For more information on how we are working towards this, please check out our Sustainability Key Facts Booklet 2022 (https://lnkd.in/e8JZDqvC). whom are now Nordex Group employees, and 60% of whom are women. Works Doctors are available in all countries in, which Nordex operates. In order to further promote diversity within the, Nordex Group, we initiated a new project. Our activities there, target the further education of people to improve, their development opportunities and thus their, life prospects. Another ongoing major challenge is the devel-opment of new production capabilities in Brazil, China, India, and Mexico. business activities. Indicators that register unsafe, behavior, 'near misses', and rst aid incidents are, clear statements on accident prevention. addition, we will promote diversity in our company. This is the first time that the company has published a separate report, which was prepared largely in accordance with the G4 guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Relevance isdetermined by dened criteria. Our environmental impact mitigation initiatives were also recognized by leading sustainability ratings in the reporting year, with Nordex awarded 'Prime' status by ISS ESG again. As a result of this work, we have decidedto discontinue products in the Gamma platform bymid-year 2021 and retire AWP platform productsat the end of 2020. We continue to monitor the development of the pandemic very closely so that we can respond quickly and efciently. The average training hours per participant was 16, hours (2019: 16). This helps minimize environment-polluting light andsound emissions, and ensures compliance with building requirements and regulations. One of the, beneciaries was granted an internship by NESA, at Dorper Wind Farm and is proud to be part of the, Nordex team. By 2021, we want to reducewaste per installed capacity by 10% comparedwith the 2018 reporting year. Constructive dialog between managers, and employees on how to carry out work as safely as possible supports the safety culture across the, entire Nordex Group. whether they might have a negative environmentalimpact due to normal or abnormal conditions orpotential emergencies. The, return on energy key indicators shows the entire, primary energy used over the wind turbine's entire, life cycle in relation to the electrical energy it gener-, ates in a year. In. Furthermore, in the report we present the results of our comprehensive analysis of the entire Nordex Group's Corporate Carbon Footprint. Employees could share their own. Learn more about our work in Spain here:https://lnkd.in/e5vvXfmW In, order to increase the participation of women in the, area of operations and technical positions within, Nordex, we further fostered our partnership with, the Turkish Women in Renewable and Energy Network (TWRE), with whom we organized a three-day introductory training course for young, women, similar to last year's event. Turbine nacelles and hubs are mainly assembled, at our own facilities. * Figures for temporary industrial employees are recorded for Germany only. wind turbines with a rated output power of 5,461 MW were installed in 2020 by the Nordex Group. Anne-Catherine has been working in different management positions for the Nordex Group for more than two decades and as Board Member and President for the French Wind Energy Association France Energie Eolienne since 2015. in Jhimpir, Pakistan. Together with other departments in the salesprocess, we continued to closely collaborate withour customers in this challenging year. Assets leased out for downstream activities. RenewAfrica is an initiative launched by the RES4Africa Foundation with the support of 26, stakeholders in the nancial, industrial and devel-, opment sectors - including the Nordex Group. In 2020, we held 16 'Trust. whistleblower system providesNordex Group employees with an additional meansof discussing grievances or misconduct. It also helped us to explore and set up ways of onboarding and training employees remotely. We have now planned further steps as a result of this analysis of the Nordex Group's carbonfootprint. Our Global Sourcing department, ensures that the required products and services are, sourced in the right quality, at the right time, and at, the right cost. As a company withsustainable business practices, Nordex achieved certication of these nancing instruments as'green bonds' in accordance with the criteria of theClimate Bonds Initiative's Climate Bonds StandardBoard. At the Energy Campus Hamburg run by the, HAW Competence Center for Renewable Energies, and Energy Efciency, research is being carried, out on topics which may, for instance, eventually, be applied in the optimization of wind turbines. The implementation willsupport our overarching goal of becoming OneGlobal Company. 22419 Hamburg However, dueto high production activity at the blade productionsite in Mexico, where we currently still obtainelectricity from the local electricity mix, the overallshare fell to 65.1% as at the end of 2020 (2019:73.5%). In 2019, the TTC was accredited for the Basic Tech-nical Training and Basic Safety Training programsof the Global Wind Organisation (GWO). The, German facilities for nacelle assembly and rotorblade production are based in Rostock. By 2021, we want to reduce, waste per installed capacity by 10% compared, with the 2018 reporting year. Two new cleaners have replaced over, 20 previous substances. Regarding the global average COE across the whole power generation sector, wind energy is now more cost-efficient than fossil fuels. The running event is the largest active sporting meet-and-greet for companies, institutions, and organizations in the Rostock area (Germany) and has been one of the most successful networking events in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for some time. Markets, customer demands, and the general con-, ditions of the global wind industry have changed in, recent years. Information on components of the Non-nancial Group Report (NFR) is indicated by a line next to the text section. Going forward, Nordex plans to gradu-ally re-establish its European project developmentbusiness. Signicant impacts of activities, products, and services on biodiversity, Waste generation and signicant waste-related impacts, Management of signicant waste-related impacts, Non-compliance with environmental laws and regulations, GRI 308: Supplier Environmental Assessment 2016, New suppliers that were screened using environmental criteria, Negative environmental impacts in the supply chain and actions taken, Nordex was not aware of any signicant nes in the period under review, Minimum notice periods regarding operational changes, GRI 403: Occupational Health and Safety 2018, Occupational health and safety management, Hazard identication, risk assessment, and incident investigation, Worker participation, consultation, and communication on occupational health and safety, Worker training on occupational health and safety, Prevention and mitigation of o ccupational health and safety, Average hours of training per year per employee, Programs for upgrading employee skills and transition assistance programs, Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews, GRI 405: Diversity and Equal Opportunity 2016, Diversity of governance bodies and employeesRatio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men, Incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken, Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining, GRI 407: Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining 2016, Operations and suppliers in which the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining may be at risk, Operations and suppliers at signicant risk for incidents of forced or compulsory labour, Employee training on human rights policies or procedures, Signicant investment agreements and contracts that include human rights clauses or that underwent human rights screening. 'I came to Nordex because I strived for purpose; investing my time and energy in an industry that, contributes to a greener future simply made sense, to me. Due to the additional inclusion of hazardous substances, the number of active hazardous substances listed in the register of Division Europe at the end of 2020 rose to 799 (2019: 752), 33 of which are in water hazard class 3 (2019: 23). Cross references to statements beyond the scopeof the Group Management Report and / or the Con-solidated Financial Statements represent additionalinformation and are not part of the Non-nancialReport. In 2020, 51% (2019: 54%) of all managersworldwide participated in this training. At the end of 2020, the Nordex Group's Service orga-nization was supporting around 8,400 wind turbinesworldwide with a total nominal output of 21.0 GW. campaign. To ensure this, we, subject relevant suppliers to a regular assessment, program involving visits and audits. With 5,497 (2019: 2,277) e-learning courses completed and 9,036 (2,873) assigned in 2020, we achieved an overall completion rate of 61% (2019: 79%). Substitution tests for anti-corrosion agents will, also be initiated. In, the reporting year, the Nordex Group proceeded, with the dismantling and recycling of older wind, turbines. The objective was to protect the. Therefore, the role of P&C was to offer, support, guidance, tips and tricks regarding the challenges that arose in the past year and the, Protecting our employees, our sites, the construc-, tion and servicing of wind farms, and our com-. We serve our customers in all focus markets throughour own sales organization. Optimizing theexisting supply chain and establishing a compet-itive supplier network in the regions relevant tothe Nordex Group will play a key role in achievingthis goal. Our blade production sites focused on reducinghazardous waste in the reporting year. Nordex received no awards nor any other benets that included forms of nancial support. Where this is not restricted, by country-specic regulations, they may report, In addition to the existing contact points such as, line managers and the People & Culture depart-, ment, the notify! Making this happen is what drives us. expertise, deepen their knowledge, and reinforce the high quality standards of the Nordex Group. 3. You will nd further information in the sections onEmployee Feedback and Development, Manage-ment Development, and Employee Diversity. The Code is binding for all employees of the Nordex Group.In the Code of Conduct for subcontractors andsuppliers, we adhere to the principles of integrityand ethical, lawful conduct throughout the entireduration of the business relationship. The NordexGroup has integrated these objectives into itssustainability approach. The FFCELofcers are now qualied to conduct in-housewind turbine climbing and rescue training, so they are no longer dependent on foreign experts. In 2020, the Company applied for tax relief for the 2019. nancial year totaling EUR 110 thousand. This is a key, element of our Sustainability Strategy. All employees are involved; in the, team discussions, people who would otherwise, hold back are invited to contribute. Lead. ing process as required by DIN ISO 14001:2015. After implementing our Safety Stand Down (SSD) process in 2019, we harmonized the Safety Noti-cations process at a global level in 2020. This optimally, complements the risk assessments carried out in the eld. NordexGroup customers are primarily wind farm developersand operators. Therefore, despite higher abso-lute water consumption, we achieved a decreasein relative water consumption. We became a member of the Global Wind Organization (GWO) in April 2019 in order. Additionally, weimplement systems that constantly monitor and manage the turbines' operating status and the required safety parameters for each action andwind turbine. This lifetime extension is especially interesting, if repowering is not possible but the location is still, With our Vortex Generators, which were launched, back in 2016, we optimize the aerodynamics of, wind turbines to achieve higher yields. Further information on the reporting scope ofour consumption data is provided in the chapteron Environmental Management & ResourceEfciency. This processincludes all of our own employees as well as thoseof our business partners, subcontractors, and sup-pliers. The training program is due to be completed by the end of March 2021 and will be repeated every two years. In doing so, NEW 4.0 systematicallycreates the prerequisites for supplying Hamburgand Schleswig-Holstein with safe, reliable andrenewable electricity from 2025 onwards, meet-ing up to 70% of these federal states' needs. In thislong-term partnership, we are involved in the 'Decarbonization: Global Research on Effects inEnterprises and Societies (DGREES)' sub-project,addressing, among other things, the denition ofscience-based emissions reduction targets in accordance with the Paris Climate Agreement and the development of strategies for achievingthese targets. We are working on a project to promote and enhance diversity which will be further developed in 2021. Cost of energy (COE) management is fundamental in overcoming these, challenges. Some ofthem are produced internally, while others werepurchased from external providers. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the majority of our employees worked from home, resulting in. In, 2020, we exclusively published testimonials from, women, as we aim to foster the careers of women. This multifaceted cam-paign aims to attract new talent and ensure thatthis attraction spreads as widely as possible. This title honors her for 20 years of unfailing dedication to the #energytransition and is a huge recognition for all Nordex France employees without whom this success would not have been possible. This lifetime extension is especially interestingif repowering is not possible but the location is stillattractive. Despite the circumstances, a number of actiondays and campaigns were carried out at other sites. During the development process in, our production plants and our material specica-, tion activities, we use an evaluation process to check whether the hazardous materials we plan to purchase are compatible with our Company guidelines. Our, Project Optimization department will keep working, with our customers to continuously reduce the, cost of energy and develop solutions to improve, our customers' business case.

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