In its eighth voluntary sustainability report, the Dortmund specialist for filling and packaging systems transparently discloses the progress it has made in corporate governance, social responsibility and environmental protection. Based on the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), the report was independently audited and granted limited audit assurance.

“In 2025, we reached further important milestones regarding our ambitious environmental targets,” says Kai Acker, CEO of KHS GmbH. “Here, we take our responsibility as a globally active company extremely seriously and believe in providing full transparency.” For the very first time, the current report therefore now includes a concise dashboard reliably mapping the progress the Dortmund company has made in key areas such as climate protection, working conditions at its own facilities and throughout the value chain.

Clear alignment with EU reporting standards

KHS has further developed its sustainability report to meet the requirements set out by the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). “Our main aim is to create maximum transparency and enable our customers to directly compare our performance with that of others,” explains Nicole Pohl, senior ESG manager and human rights officer at KHS. “Although we’re not legally obliged to do so as a Group company, we consistently align our voluntary report with the standards and requirements specified by the European Union.”

KHS thus had a business audit performed for the first time in 2025 in order to obtain limited audit assurance. “For us, this independent limited assurance review is an important step towards ensuring transparency. It officially confirms the customary high credibility of our sustainability data for our stakeholders,” Pohl continues.

Important milestones in environmental protection

Last year, KHS considerably intensified its sustainability efforts towards better climate protection. One of the measures completed was to commission two large-scale photovoltaic systems at its sites in Bad Kreuznach and Worms, following on from the example set by Dortmund in 2023. Further PV systems have supplied KHS’ international locations in Kunshan (China) and Ahmedabad (India) with green electricity since the end of 2025 and March 2026 respectively. In 2025, EcoVadis honored the company’s sustainability achievements by presenting KHS with its first platinum award. This places the Salzgitter subsidiary among the top 1% in the EcoVadis rating across all assessed branches of industry worldwide. The next step is to join the UN Global Compact and in doing so clearly position KHS as an endorser of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda. “We want to stringently continue our drive for decarbonization and are aiming for net zero in scopes 1 and 2 by 2045. In addition to protecting our climate, we also focus just as clearly on the needs of our employees and actively shoulder our holistic corporate responsibility in the context of ESG,” claims Kai Acker.