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Environmental Policy





1. Background

AH diagnostics has since 1986 been an established supplier to customers within the life science and diagnostics market in the Nordic countries.  
The headquarter is located in Aarhus, Denmark, with local entities and offices in Denmark (Copenhagen), Sweden 
(Stockholm), Finland (Helsinki) and Norway (Oslo). The company works as a Nordic distributor with local expertise and represents more than 25 different suppliers from different countries. 

 

2. Purpose 

The policy regulates how environmental issues are handled within all departments of AH diagnostics. 

 

3. Extent 

The policy applies to all AH diagnostics locations.  
The status on our environmental goals as well as the environmental impact will be published in the EcoVadis Scorecard. 

 

4. Responsible 

The Nordic Management Team has the overall responsibility for the AH diagnostics entities to abide the Environmental Policy. 
The ESG team is responsible for embedding the Environmental policy into AH diagnostics as well as identifying actions and methods to increase attention on our carbon footprint. 
Follow up will be done on regular basis and at least once a year on a management meeting. This to execute corrective actions, and actions for improvement of our environmental procedures. 

 

5. Environmental Policy 

Sustainable responsibility is a part of our strategy, and we aim to create a value chain that considers our environmental impact through every step. This to support our suppliers and our customers in making sustainable choices. 
To support our Environmental policy, we have a Sustainable procurement policy, describing the efforts, goals and actions related to suppliers and products.  
Through our ESG team we aim for transparency and avoiding green washing. 
To ensure focus and commitment to improve our impact on the environment and ESG issues in general, we have implemented ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001 certification as well as joined the EcoVadis community. 
These commitments give our employees as well as our external stakeholders a clear statement of our common journey towards more conscious choices.  
We have identified Energy consumption, Waste, packaging and shipment as the key areas where we have a direct impact on the environment 

Energy consumption: 
- The main energy consumption in AH diagnostics is Electricity in the offices and consumption on fuel related to company cars.
- The main office in Tilst, who has the largest consumption of electricity in the group, are powered by certified renewable electricity.
- At all AH offices lamps, are where possible, using LED to minimize our energy consumption. In the head office and where possible light switches have been replaced by sensors automatically switching the light on and off.
- Fossil fuelled company cars are replaced with electric cars when their lease period is over.

Waste: 
- Environmentally safe way to re-cycle and dispose electronic waste and follow
national strategies, by making it obligatory to do so.
- In Sweden we are affiliated to FTI (REPA), the industry system for re-cycling of packing material, and El-Kretsen, the industry system for producer responsibility and the collection of electrical and electronic waste and batteries.
- In Denmark we are filiated to El-retur, Emballage-retur and Batteri-retur (electric instruments, packaging materials and Batteries.
- In Norway we are affiliated with Renas

Packaging and Shipment 
- Packaging materials are mainly cardboard
- Tape and document pockets have been switched from plastic to paper.
- Polystyrene boxes have been 80% replaced by cardboard boxes. Polystyrene is only used for shipments containing dry ice.
- Freight forwarders with Eco certificates are mainly used for transportation
- Shipments are consolidated where possible.
- A dropship project where items are shipped directly from our supplier to the customer has been initiated.

 

6. Actions/Goals 

- All company cars must be Electrical by the end of 2028
- Energy consumption must come from renewable energy, where possible.
- Reuse inbound packaging materials, where possible.
- Inbound packaging materials that are not reused must be recycled through waste collection agreements.
- Replace the remaining 20% of polystyrene boxes with Cardboard or other Eco-friendly materials.
- Increase the number of direct shipments from Supplier to Customer
- Monitor our carbon footprint, and initiate further actions to reduce carbon footprint
- Maintain ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001 certifications for all entities in the group
- Continue to be a member of the EcoVadis community