Sustainability

The Rotoplas Way allows our 2,272 employees to commit to our Company in order to develop, produce, and provide solutions that offer our clients more and better water.

Correspondingly, with the Rotoplas Way, we reinvented our work approach in 2015. We moved our company headquarters in order to grow, drive innovation, and increase collaboration. Our new LEED Platinum-certified workplace helps us live by the Rotoplas Way and our collaborative culture. It improved communication between different areas, generated better commitment among employees, aligned our processes, and created an environment that enhanced faster and more assertive decision-making processes, resulting in increased productivity for the Group.

Employees 2015

We aim all of our employees to feel part of our Company, and live the Rotoplas Way. To achieve this, we engage in continuous dialogue with our staff through internal communication campaigns, which broadcast our key operation and culture messages, thereby helping to maintain focus on the Company’s strategies and reinforcing our practices according to our strategy, culture, processes, and Corporate Governance.

Aligned with our unique working style, 2015 saw the launch of R-Conecta, our corporate social network, which aims to build a social knowledge repository with real-time, multidirectional connections. The network seeks to enhance collaboration among staff regardless of geographical barriers, and encourages sharing and duplicating best practices among countries, providing a project management platform among multidisciplinary teams.

Training and development

We acknowledge that in order to respond dynamically to the global environment in which we operate, we must develop a well prepared technical and professional skilled team. As such, we offered 17,870 hours of training to our employees in 2015, through initiatives specifically tailored to their geographical location and job profile.

Training 2015

We encourage our employees’ personal development through social activities and community involvement in near our corporate and manufacturing facilities. Some key projects developed in 2015 were:

• Reforestation and cleanup campaigns at the Lerma and Anáhuac Plants, planting 1,500 trees and collecting 500 kg of garbage in Ocoyoacac, State of Mexico.
• Support for Centro de Atención Múltiple 15, a school for children with special education needs, where corporate staff sold some art paintings in benefit of the school, and volunteered to maintain its facilities.
• Alliance with the Ciudad de los Niños A.C. in Monterrey, Nuevo León; medications were donated to this organization.

Health and Safety

We promote a safety culture through the Haz de tu parte (Do Your Share) program, which aims to increase employee risk awareness and encourage them to prevent accidents through various initiatives. The Company has the purpose of being a zero-accident business by living and implementing the Rotoplas safety culture.

In 2015, we held 247 training events related to hygiene, health, safety, and environmental aspects.

At Rotoplas, there is no evidence that the employees’ freedom of association or right to collective bargaining has been threatened in any of our workplaces.

Environment

Throughout our value chain we make efforts with the goal of reducing environmental impacts in our operation.

One of the main efforts, in line with our philosophy, is to efficiently use water in our productive processes, and reduce its consumption every year.

Of the consumed energy in 2015, 78% was from renewable sources, while the main fuel we used in our operation was gas.

The raw materials used in our products are polyethylene and polypropylene. We employ recycled materials in our daily activities to manufacture and pack our products, some of which have up to 30% of these components on the exterior, enabling us to ensure that quality controls for human consumption are maintained. In 2015, our production lines used 3,600,000 kg of recycled materials in production.