Reporting of tracked indicators

By far the largest potential climate impact that Bühler can have is in enabling emissions reductions for the use of sold goods in customer operations and increasing the efficiency of its installed base. Bühler focuses on implementing innovative solutions and services for energy efficiency, higher yield, and waste reduction through circularity. This is why Bühler set goals to have solutions ready to multiply that reduce energy, waste, and water by 50% in the value chains of our customers (the 50/50/50 goal).

In 2025, we delivered on this commitment with the lifecycle assessment according to ISO 1407 of 15 industrial value chains across Bühler’s three main industries. In 11 of the 15 value chains, we can achieve at least 50% saving in one or more key category. In all value chains, we can achieve more than 35% savings in at least one category. Find more information on this in Our Solutions and Services for Impact.

Understanding and reducing the environmental impact of our own operations and business is also integral to our work on sustainability at Bühler and a material topic for the Group in terms of climate change, energy, waste reduction, circularity, and water.

With regard to the emissions resulting from the Group’s energy consumption, we have committed to a 60% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Scopes 1 and 2 by 2030, which follows a science-based target. This is in comparison to a baseline year of 2019. To reach this target, our priority currently is reducing energy consumption in our manufacturing processes and buildings. We therefore also measure energy consumption relative to various indicators such as external temperature and manufacturing hours. Following this, we investigate alternative, greener sources of energy, and after evaluating these options, we look at procurement of green electricity through certificates. 

Looking at our wider impact on the environment, we also work to reduce water consumption and waste production. In addition, we are working to introduce metrics to measure and improve nature and biodiversity at our sites. 

In order to deal with the emissions created at our events, Bühler is collaborating with Restor. In 2024, Bühler established a portfolio of restoration projects to support. The projects directly protect and restore nature and are located in the regions where we organize our events, including Europe, China, North and South Americas.

In 2025, we updated our calculations to incorporate new emissions factors and adjustments for purchased goods and services (Scope 3.1). This update included a full recalculation of Scope 3.1 figures and the establishment of a new baseline – the overall trends, however, remain broadly consistent with previous reporting years. We continue to follow the GHG Protocol and apply a spend-based methodology using recognized secondary emission factors. For logistics emissions, we maintain a distance-based methodology, accounting for weight, distance, and transport-mode emission factors. In 2025, we engaged an independent consultancy to conduct a critical review of our logistics calculations. Based on their recommendations, we are updating our emission factors at a more granular level across modes and regions to enhance quality and comparability. 

For Scopes 3.11 (Use of sold products) and 3.12 (End-of-life treatment of sold products), we developed an approach and methodology to quantify emissions which is in line with the requirements and industry best practice. The use of sold products resulted in a jump-off point of 40 million tonnes of CO2e in 2023. Only 2,160 tonnes of CO2e are caused by the disposal of sold goods. 

After comparing different methods, the approach followed was a "top-down", project-based approach considering the emissions across entire projects. This approach offers a broader perspective that includes third-party machines and overall project outputs. This approach also brought to light key aspects that need to be addressed to further improve the accuracy of these results, namely: data completeness to reduce percentage of data extrapolation, validation with customer primary data, and automation of data collection to avoid manual errors.

In the new reporting period, Bühler laid continued focus on the reporting of the social KPIs to reflect our values of Trust, Ownership, and Passion (TOP) and our efforts to build a people-centric culture that puts the full person, their health and wellbeing, in the center and builds the basis for their safety and high performance at work. This included sustained focus on fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace through initiatives such as Conscious Inclusion, Leaders as Allies, Beyond Bias training, and the relaunch of Women@Bühler. Learning and development remained central, supported by apprenticeship programs, global leadership development offerings, technical and service training, and expanded digital learning through our academies, specialist schools, and the B-Learning platform.

Our Destination25 strategy includes defined targets for Human Resources which are mirrored in the tracked indicators.

In 2025, Bühler continued reporting on its established set of People KPIs as “where we stand,” while advancing improvements in data quality and expanding dashboards that give leaders direct access to workforce insights. The year saw continued progress with strengthened measurement across learning participation, internal mobility, inclusion initiatives, and training delivered to employees, customers, and partners.

By consistently tracking these indicators, Bühler supports strategic workforce planning, business execution, and timely corrective actions that strengthen performance and resilience across regions. More information on Bühler’s efforts to advance inclusion, health and safety, learning, and development can be found in the People section.