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]]> Hankook Tire & Technology, established as Korea’s first tire maker in 1941, has 8 global production bases located in Korea, China, the US, Hungary and Indonesia, which manufacture 102 million high-quality tires each year to serve more than 180 countries, solidifying its status as a true global tire maker. Hankook Tire & Technology effectively distributes the economic, social and environmental value created throughout its entire value chain  Tweet This!, in order to pursue sustainable growth for all.

This case study is based on the 2020/21 ESG Report by Hankook Tire & Technology, prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards, that can be found at this link. Through all case studies we aim to demonstrate what CSR/ ESG/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts on the environment, economy and society, and b) measuring, managing and changing.

Abstract

Hankook Tire & Technology seeks to fulfill its social responsibilities based on sustainability, generating sustainable, long-term value for all its stakeholders. In order to create economic value for its stakeholders Hankook Tire & Technology took action to:

  • create economic value for employees
  • create economic value for raw material suppliers
  • create economic value for the government
  • create economic value for shareholders

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2020/21 ESG Report Hankook Tire & Technology identified a range of material issues, such as expanding R&D investments and reinforcing capabilities, developing a sustainability management system and expanding communication, implementing safety accident prevention and health management, developing products and services for customer safety & health, developing eco-friendly products and minimising environmental impact during product use/disposal phase. Among these, creating economic value for its stakeholders stands out as a key material issue for Hankook Tire & Technology.

Stakeholder engagement in accordance with the GRI Standards              

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) defines the Principle of Stakeholder Inclusiveness when identifying material issues (or a company’s most important impacts) as follows:

“The reporting organization shall identify its stakeholders, and explain how it has responded to their reasonable expectations and interests.”

Stakeholders must be consulted in the process of identifying a company’s most important impacts and their reasonable expectations and interests must be taken into account. This is an important cornerstone for CSR / sustainability reporting done responsibly.

Key stakeholder groups Hankook Tire & Technology engages with:

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Shareholders & Investors

 

 ·      BOD

·      General shareholder meeting

·      Overseas conferences

·      IR
Customers (car makers, general customers and dealers)

 

 ·      Technology exchanges, exhibitions and fairs

·      Sustainability assessments

·      Dealer discussion meetings

·      Customer satisfaction centres
Employees

 

 ·      Labour-management council

·      Discussion meetings and grievance handling mechanisms

·      Organisational immersion surveys

·      Intranet

·      Internal idea suggestion system

·      Proactive Concert
Local Communities

 

 

 ·      Discussion meetings with locals

·      Discussion meetings with local public offices and NGOs

·      Compile complaints from local communities
Suppliers

 

 

 ·      Regular supplier assessments, quality and ESG training

·      Partner’s Day

·      Purchasing portal (HePS)

How stakeholder engagement was made to identify material issues

To identify and prioritise material topics Hankook Tire & Technology engaged with its stakeholders through a survey and interviews.

What actions were taken by Hankook Tire & Technology to create economic value for its stakeholders?

In its 2020/21 ESG Report Hankook Tire & Technology reports that it took the following actions for creating economic value for its stakeholders:

  • Creating economic value for employees
  • In 2020, Hankook Tire & Technology paid KRW 493.4 billion for employee wages.
  • Creating economic value for raw material suppliers
  • In 2020, Hankook Tire & Technology spent KRW 1.9407 trillion in raw material purchases.
  • Creating economic value for the government
  • In 2020, Hankook Tire & Technology paid KRW 193.1 billion in corporate tax.
  • Creating economic value for shareholders
  • In 2020, Hankook Tire & Technology paid KRW 79.3 billion in dividends.

Which GRI Standards and corresponding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been addressed?

The GRI Standard addressed in this case is: Disclosure 201-1 Direct economic value generated and distributed

Disclosure 201-1 Direct economic value generated and distributed corresponds to:

 

78% of the world’s 250 largest companies report in accordance with the GRI Standards

SustainCase was primarily created to demonstrate, through case studies, the importance of dealing with a company’s most important impacts in a structured way, with use of the GRI Standards. To show how today’s best-run companies are achieving economic, social and environmental success – and how you can too.

Research by well-recognised institutions is clearly proving that responsible companies can look to the future with optimism.

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  • Identify your most important impacts on the Environment, Economy and People
  • Formulate in group exercises your plan for action. Begin taking solid, focused, all-round sustainability action ASAP. 
  • Benchmarking methodology to set you on a path of continuous improvement

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References:

This case study is based on published information by Hankook Tire & Technology, located at the link below. For the sake of readability, we did not use brackets or ellipses. However, we made sure that the extra or missing words did not change the report’s meaning. If you would like to quote these written sources from the original please revert to the following link:

https://www.hankooktire.com/wsvc/api/pdf-viewer/document.servlet?documentPath=/content/dam/hankooktire/global/pdf/esg/esg_esg%EB%B3%B4%EA%B3%A0%EC%84%9C/eng/2020-21_ESG_ENG.pdf

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]]> Case study: How Hankook Tire & Technology promotes sustainability across its supply chain https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-hankook-tire-technology-promotes-sustainability-across-its-supply-chain/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:06:32 +0000 https://ccprowebs.com/new-sustaincase.com/?p=13707 Established as Korea’s first tire maker in 1941, Hankook Tire & Technology has a sales network that spans China, Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East & Africa as well as Korea where its Headquarters are located, to deliver products that cater to local customer needs. Hankook Tire & Technology is committed to establishing an ESG (environmental, social and governance) system within its supply chain to promote integrated CSR management and has also paved the way to pursue shared growth with suppliers, through its supplier support programmes. This case study is based on the 2019/20 CSR Report by Hankook […]

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]]> Established as Korea’s first tire maker in 1941, Hankook Tire & Technology has a sales network that spans China, Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East & Africa as well as Korea where its Headquarters are located, to deliver products that cater to local customer needs. Hankook Tire & Technology is committed to establishing an ESG (environmental, social and governance) system within its supply chain to promote integrated CSR management and has also paved the way to pursue shared growth with suppliers, through its supplier support programmes.

This case study is based on the 2019/20 CSR Report by Hankook Tire & Technology, prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards, that can be found at this link. Through all case studies we aim to demonstrate what CSR/ ESG/ sustainability reporting done responsibly means. Essentially, it means: a) identifying a company’s most important impacts on the environment, economy and society, and b) measuring, managing and changing.

Abstract

Hankook Tire & Technology conducts regular CSR assessments on its suppliers to improve sustainability along the entire supply chain  Tweet This!, while offering policy support for suppliers to build long-term competitiveness and ensure sustainable growth in so doing. In order to promote sustainability across its supply chain Hankook Tire & Technology took action to:

  • select suppliers considering CSR elements
  • expand on-site CSR audits
  • extend the scope of supplier ESG management

What are the material issues the company has identified?

In its 2019/20 CSR Report Hankook Tire & Technology identified a range of material issues, such as expanding R&D investments and reinforcing capabilities, establishing quality management and strengthening customer satisfaction activities, developing a sustainability management system and expanding communication, reducing GHG & air pollutants emissions. Among these, promoting sustainability across its supply chain stands out as a key material issue for Hankook Tire & Technology.

Stakeholder engagement in accordance with the GRI Standards

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) defines the Principle of Stakeholder Inclusiveness when identifying material issues (or a company’s most important impacts) as follows:

“The reporting organization shall identify its stakeholders, and explain how it has responded to their reasonable expectations and interests.”

Stakeholders must be consulted in the process of identifying a company’s most important impacts and their reasonable expectations and interests must be taken into account. This is an important cornerstone for CSR / sustainability reporting done responsibly.

Key stakeholder groups Hankook Tire & Technology engages with:

To identify and prioritise material topics Hankook Tire & Technology engaged with its stakeholders through the following channels: 

Stakeholder Group                Method of engagement
Shareholders & Investors

 

 ·      BOD

·      General shareholder meeting

·      Overseas conferences

·      IR events
Customers (car makers, general customers and dealers)

 

 ·      Technology exchanges, exhibition and fairs

·      Sustainability assessments

·      Dealer discussion meetings

·      Customer satisfaction centre
Employees

 

 ·      Labour-management council

·      Discussion meetings and grievance mechanisms

·      Organisational immersion surveys

·      Intranet

·      Internal idea suggestion system

·      Proactive Concert
Local Communities

 

 

 ·      Discussion meetings with locals

·      Discussion meetings with local public offices and NGOs

·      Compile complaints from local communities
Suppliers

 

 

 ·      Regular supplier assessments, quality and CSR training

·      Partner’s Day

·      Purchasing portal (HePS)

What actions were taken by Hankook Tire & Technology to promote sustainability across its supply chain?

In its 2019/20 CSR Report Hankook Tire & Technology reports that it took the following actions for promoting sustainability across its supply chain:

  • Selecting suppliers considering CSR elements
  • As Hankook Tire & Technology recognises that suppliers who fulfill their social responsibility and practice sustainability management are essential in achieving sustainable growth for all, it considers CSR factors in its supplier assessment even from the selection phase. Since 2019, Hankook Tire & Technology has distributed ‘sustainability guidelines for suppliers’ in signing supplier contracts to recognise these guidelines as mandatory requirements in doing business with it. In 2020, Hankook Tire & Technology created a platform within its electronic purchasing system to collect suppliers’ e-signatures on compliance with these guidelines. The rate of e-signatures amounted to 65% in 2020, and Hankook Tire & Technology aims to reach 100% by 2030.
  • Expanding on-site CSR audits
  • Hankook Tire & Technology is extending the scope of its on-site supplier CSR assessments from raw material suppliers to equipment suppliers. In making such assessments, Hankook Tire & Technology reviews audit outcomes and sets improvement plans in cooperation with the CSR Team. Hankook Tire & Technology also reviews the appropriateness of self-directed CSR assessments and identifies the necessary improvements to evaluate suppliers’ sustainability. Major corrective action plans identified in 2019 included the creation of anonymous grievance/whistleblowing channels for identity protection, the establishment of an in-house code of ethics and its dissemination among employees, and regular firefighting drills.
  • Extending the scope of supplier ESG management
  • Hankook Tire & Technology established its ESG system within the supply chain for integrated CSR management. In particular, Hankook Tire & Technology continues to manage critical suppliers chosen for the significance of the items they supply, and endeavours to extend the scope of this management to its tier 2 suppliers. In 2019, Hankook Tire & Technology added tier 2 items in its supplier CSR assessment to ensure that each tier 1 supplier specifies five critical tier 2 suppliers. CSR assessments are also made on critical tier 2 suppliers and reviews are conducted to make sure that they were requested to improve their performance on human rights & labour, ethics, health & safety, environment, and climate change management. Hankook Tire & Technology also set a goal of reaching 100% in identifying its critical tier 2 suppliers by 2030.

Which GRI Standards and corresponding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been addressed?

The GRI Standards addressed in this case are:

1) Disclosure 308-1 New suppliers that were screened using environmental criteria

2) Disclosure 414-1 New suppliers that were screened using social criteria

 

Disclosure 308-1 New suppliers that were screened using environmental criteria does not correspond to any SDG.

Disclosure 414-1 New suppliers that were screened using social criteria corresponds to:

 

78% of the world’s 250 largest companies report in accordance with the GRI Standards

SustainCase was primarily created to demonstrate, through case studies, the importance of dealing with a company’s most important impacts in a structured way, with use of the GRI Standards. To show how today’s best-run companies are achieving economic, social and environmental success – and how you can too.

Research by well-recognised institutions is clearly proving that responsible companies can look to the future with optimism.

7 GRI sustainability disclosures get you started

Any size business can start taking sustainability action

GRI, ISEP, CPD Certified Sustainability courses (2-5 days): Live Online or Classroom  (venue: London School of Economics)

  • Exclusive FBRH template to begin reporting from day one
  • Identify your most important impacts on the Environment, Economy and People
  • Formulate in group exercises your plan for action. Begin taking solid, focused, all-round sustainability action ASAP. 
  • Benchmarking methodology to set you on a path of continuous improvement

See upcoming training dates.
References:

This case study is based on published information by Hankook Tire & Technology, located at the link below. For the sake of readability, we did not use brackets or ellipses. However, we made sure that the extra or missing words did not change the report’s meaning. If you would like to quote these written sources from the original please revert to the following link:

https://www.hankooktire.com/global/files/sustainability/csr_reports/CSR_Report_2019-20_English_1.pdf

Note to Hankook Tire & Technology: With each case study we send out an email requesting a comment on this case study. If you have not received such an email please contact us.

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