Plastic Omnium - 2018 Registration Document

3 STATEMENT OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE CSR at the heart of our strategy PLASTIC OMNIUM 2018 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 89 Dialogue with Plastic Omnium’s employees takes many forms: regulated social dialogue, described in section 3.2.2.4 Social dialogue; ● participation in events: World Safety Day has become an annual event ● for all employees; 40 European employees and their families received VIP invitations to the Plastic Omnium stand at the Paris Motor Show; recognition of innovators with a new internal competition: the ● Innovation Awards by Plastic Omnium ; communication using diverse complementary channels, all available in ● eight languages. Optimum, the twice-yearly publication, is sent to all employees. Monthly news items are broadcast on video screens on-site: ▪ this initiative launched on 26 sites at the end of 2017 in particular enabled operators to be contacted. The TopNet intranet portal connects 13,000 employees. In this way, more than 200 news items have been broadcast and, on average, were consulted 22,000 times each month. Traffic has increased 39% compared to 2017, demonstrating this communication channel's attractiveness. the TopShare collaborative portal: this tool for sharing hosts over 1,400 ● collaborative sites. In 2018, interest in this portal increased with 15% additional monthly clicks compared to 2017, or more than 2 million clicks per month; management meetings: the “Top 100” is the Annual Meeting for senior ● managers to discuss the Company’s strategy. Management meetings allow the Executive Committee and country managers to share results and local ambitions. Conventions organized by Division and by business line are the opportunity to involve managers in strategy and operating challenges. Quarterly conference calls and webcasts organized by the Divisions are intended to share results and goals with the 300-500 key managers; dialogue with future employees is addressed in section 3.2.2.5 Talent ● and skill management. Plastic Omnium develops partnerships with its customers in order to develop innovations together enabling users’ expectations to be met, while incorporating the major sustainable mobility trends and anticipating regulatory changes. This ongoing dialogue enables Plastic Omnium to remain the leader in its segments by developing better products for its customers. Plastic Omnium’s excellence is consequently acknowledged through awards. Accordingly, in 2018: Clean Energy Systems’ Sorocaba plant received two awards from ● Toyota for product quality and for delivery logistics; CLEPA (the European Association of Automotive Suppliers) awarded ● Plastic Omnium the 2018 environmental innovation award for Tanktronic ® , the intelligent fuel system for plug-in hybrid vehicles; our customer Hyundai awarded Plastic Omnium the “Superior ● Technology Supplier” award for its fuel system installed on two of the brand’s plug-in hybrid models; excellence by awarding it a “Best Supplier Plants Award” for the third consecutive year. PSA awarded Plastic Omnium Group the “Corporate and Social ● Responsibility Award” for its remarkable initiative in the environmental, social performance, ethics, and subcontracting areas. In particular, PSA highlighted the Vincios Gondomar plant in Spain for its industrial The Frankfurt, Paris and Detroit international motor shows were an opportunity for Plastic Omnium to make contact with the end users of its products and to meet potential future employees. Plastic Omnium’s wish to increase its attractiveness, particularly to young people, is reflected in the introduction or renewal of partnerships with schools and participation in their events in order to present the Company, its occupations and to meet young people’s expectations. The Group participated in 134 school relations events and partnerships were formed to strengthen links. In France, École Centrale Lyon and UTC became new partners alongside CentraleSupélec and INSA Lyon. Partnerships have been renewed: Lublin University of Technology in Poland, Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) in the United States. In Slovakia, the Slovak University of Technology (STU) became a partner in 2018. Partnerships formed with schools and universities are also part of innovation projects: MIT (United States), Technion (Israel) and DTU (Denmark) are part of Plastic Omnium’s open innovation ecosystem. The Automotive Strategic Analysis Committee (CASA), formed in 2011 and chaired by the Chairman and CEO, intends to support management discussions on technological innovations, and strengthen open innovation and partnerships. Comprising Research and Development Directors from each business and Division Directors, it has included three external and internationally recognized experts from the university and academic world since 2017: Professor Mathias Fink from ESPCI Paris, member of the French ● Academy of Science and Academy of Technology. Professor Fink is an internationally recognized researcher in wave propagation and imaging; Professor Emeritus Jay Lee, from the University of Cincinnati, USA. ● Dr Jay Lee, Ohio Eminent Scholar, L.W. Scott Alter Chair and Professor, is founding director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center; Professor Hiroaki Kitano, President of the Systems Biology Institute at ● the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, also President & CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. Professor Kitano is one of the pioneers in artificial intelligence, robotics and smart energy systems. The Group also participates in working groups such as the CSR Committee of the PFA (Platform of the Automotive and Mobility Industry), and develops relationships with start-ups through the Aster fund and with other large companies through the Hydrogen Council. Relationships with suppliers are based on creating trusting partnerships that begin with an approval process requiring them to sign the Supplier CSR Charter. A description of how CSR is addressed in supplier relations is presented in section 3.2.1.3 Duty of vigilance. For technical subjects that are not directly related with the Group’s expertise, Plastic Omnium works closely with external specialist consultants or service providers: for example, managing risk from the use of chemical products or conducting life cycle analyses are carried out under partnership arrangements.