Corporate social responsibility according BKT
BKT has operated since its inception as a production model and business oriented towards sustainability. The social responsibility of business has always guided and deeply decisions of society, putting people and their well-being in the center, respecting standards appropriate working and trying to reduce waste and pollution through autonomous structures from a point of view energy and reduced environmental impact in order to ensure a better quality of life.
“If the values BKT represent the rich heritage handed down by our traditions, the current challenge is to give continuity, transforming them into a lifestyle – said Arvind Poddar, President and CEO of Balkrishna Industries Limited (BKT) – The mission BKT is to institutionalize this model, aware that you can not make short-term, but surely you will experience the constant promise to create an environment where the values are really oriented to achieve the welfare of all.”
A declared commitment that translates into daily behaviors and visible tangible actions such as the construction of the top floor of Bhuj in Gujarat state, opened in early December 2015 with an investment of 500 million dollars. A production plant autonomous and at the forefront currently represents a shining example of “social factory” as it hosts a residential area with housing for workers, offering families the opportunity to live within the community and benefit free medical clinic, a fire station, a large recreation center, a school, a residence for guests and other structures of interest to the whole community.
In order to obtain the common welfare, ethics and social responsibility they are very experienced and values represented by BKT Foundation, which actively works in support projects and initiatives of different type and origin. In the health field, he has donated a unit of surgical intensive care to the hospital in Aurangabad and has imported technologically advanced machinery for the treatment of patients with cardiac and respiratory failure in a hospital in Mumbai, while supporting the important right to study, it has subsidized free education for 800 girls at a school in the state of Rajasthan, near the production plant Bhiwadi and Chopanki, in northern India, also currently holds the university education of bright Indian students at prestigious institutes in India and in abroad.
Moreover, the Foundation actively BKT Akshaya Patra complements the Foundation, a nonprofit organization that collaborates with the Indian government to ensure education to less fortunate children, saving them from the street and taking them to schools. But not only this, the Akshaya Patra Foundation has implemented an important program which aims to provide food eaters more than 1.4 million children in 10,000 schools spread over ten states of India, in order to combat hunger and malnutrition.
Important and deeply rooted in the history of society, which characterize the entire community of BKT, with the individual membership of workers to awareness initiatives such as the annual marathon Mumbai for collecting funds for charity or campaigns values blood donation.
On the other hand, is very recent participation in the demonstration of the FIMA exhibition in Zaragoza, Spain, where, in collaboration with the San Jose Tires distributor, have been distributed to visitors 10,000 footballs in exchange for the contribution of a euro per ball, intended to ASPANOA, a Spanish association of support for families with children affected by cancer.
“Sustainability in BKT born full consciousness experienced by much of the world and the firm desire to be an active part in contributing to improve the living conditions of all discomfort. A working philosophy that first passes through production processes with reduced environmental impact, then investing in the labor community, civil society and becoming concrete support for humanitarian activities. – Affirms Lucia Salmaso, CEO of BKT Europe – A virtuoso performance with the ambitious goal of being an active example for other companies, at any level market, the only way we can think about the future, our and generations to come. ”
Sustainability “certified” by the numerous awards received as a society that operates in accordance with regulations on environmental matters, including the European Directive “REACH” adopted by the chemical industry to improve the protection of human health and the environment, ISO 9001: 2000 for its quality management system and ISO 14001: 2004 for the realization of an effective Environmental Management System.
BKT has also been awarded by the Indian government for three consecutive years with the allocation of the National Energy Conservation Award, given to companies that have distinguished themselves in the management of natural resources.
The story of BKT has been recently collected and presented in a publication entitled “BKT. Committed to Growth “. In this volume, the company has its history and gives voice to all its initiatives, its social and environmental commitment, values and objectives, which are based on the combination of the three “P”, ie: People, Profit, Planet (People, Profit, Planet). Only a balance between these three factors can lead to a common success.
Source: BKT
