Sandvik has been once again selected as a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) 2016, entering the top 10% most sustainable companies in each respective industry on a global level. The company demonstrates the improvement of its performance, with an achieved percentile ranking of 98, meaning that Sandvik performs better than 98% of the other assessed companies.
The inclusion represents a great achievement, and strengthening the sustainability efforts every year also demonstrates the company being a responsible supplier to customers. The Dow Jones Sustainability Index was launched in 1999, and assesses the world’s 2.500 largest companies, including a detailed analysis on management practices and performance measures within areas such as corporate governance, risk management, anticorruption, innovation, climate change mitigation, sustainable supplier management and labor practices.