HERMES_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

ENVIRONMENT

ENERGY The power consumption of the division remained stable in 2017. The average ratio of energy consumption to revenue was identical on the scope of calf leather tanneries. However, there was a slight increase in two exotic leather tanneries due to the expansion of machinery fleets and improvements to capture and ventilation systems on work premises.

with the optimisation of hot water distribution networks for production needs. Significant discrepancies not related to production differences are also analysed. The necessary verifications are immediately carried out by the maintenance teams, in order to locate and repair any possible leaks.

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Textiles Despitethe12%increaseinthedivision’sactivitylevel,theactionscarriedoutduringtheyearmadeitpossibletocontrolwaterandenergyconsumption:

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Water in cubic metres

238,760 11,673 26,324

269,232 12,586

275,995 14,050

256,534 13,034 25,407

210,577 12,856 26,016

219,968 12,081 25,702

Electricity in megawatt hours

27,115

27,175

Gas in megawatt hours

Water The Silk division’s water consumptionwas up 4.5%andwas thus down in view of business growth. During the course of 2017, we conductedmany team awareness-raising activities relating to the issue of controlling our consumption, involving communications in internal newsletters, sharing indicators at plenary meetings, and incorporating targets into incentive agreements and individual goals. This significant effort of raising awar- eness among employees contributed more generally to making each person committed to the fight against wastefulness. The three AEI sites, the Ateliers AS and SIEGL, which are the division’s major consumers of water, established daily tracking of water consump- tion with systematic analysis of causes when deviation is detected. Production planning was also optimised to promote the grouping of pro- cessing types, thereby reducing water consumption. For the SIEGL site, the investment made in 2016 in washing equip- ment resulted in a net reduction in 2017 in water requirements for this workshop. At the same time, the improvements made to the treatment station are yielding their initial results in terms of consumption: in 2017, 5% of water consumed was sourced from the recycling process, and this portion will increase once the installation of the new equipment is completed. Energy The initiatives implemented on production sites decreased overall energy consumption by 2.8%. Examples of achievements are described in paragraph 2.5.5.

These results (change of +5% in Water, -1% in Gas and -6% in Electricity) are the fruit of the shared objectives and concerted actions for reducing consumption within the division. The ambitions are laid down in a docu- ment, the HSE HTH Charter. In order to achieve these goals, and since late 2016, the textiles division modified and fine-tuned its HSE structure, to allow the site directors and their managerial staff to fully shoulder their responsibilities. The inclu- sion of management as a central organisational component allows us to drive our performance with commitment, to enhance our responsive- ness, and to upstream environmental considerations that relate to local projects, but also to ensure that our ambitions are shared by all. This vision, our values and standards were captured in HTH’s HSE Charter, which was distributed to employee representative bodies, divi- sion managers and employees. Finally, the implementation of this reorganisation revealed specific skills requirements for high-stakes positions. Resources were allocated to achieve them. As a result, we recruited a number of employees, in par- ticular an environmental technician, and will continue to build our team in 2018.

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