About This Report
This Sustainability Report covers the sustainability activities of Linde Material Handling EMEA (“Linde MH” in this report) in the 2024 financial year. Linde MH, a KION Group company, is a leading global manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse trucks, and a solutions and service provider for intralogistics. With a sales and service network that spans more than 100 countries, the company is represented in all major regions around the world.
Since 2012, Linde MH has been working on a systematic and comprehensive sustainability strategy to address the current challenges for the company and its stakeholders:
- Climate change and scarcity of resources
- The protection of human rights
- Health and demographic change
- Ensuring diversity and equal opportunities
This report presents the strategies, measures, objectives, and key figures that Linde MH uses to manage and measure its sustainability activities in the facts and figures section.
Reporting Period and Scope
The data and figures in Linde MH’s Sustainability Report 2024 relate to the 2024 financial year, covering the period January 1 to December 31, 2024. The content relates to the activities of all Linde MH consolidated companies based in 15 countries in the EMEA region* (operational structure), including their plants and sales and service organizations.
*EMEA = Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
As part of the KION Group, Linde MH EMEA remained a core brand within the KION ITS EMEA Operating Unit during the 2024 financial year.
As a fully consolidated subsidiary of the KION Group, Linde MH must be the subject of a separate non-financial report in accordance with Sections 315b and 315c in conjunction with Sections 289c to 289e of the German Commercial Code (HGB). This obligation is fulfilled by the sustainability reporting of the parent group, since the Group non-financial report—based on the material issues identified through the regularly updated Group-wide double materiality analysis—forms part of Group sustainability report in the KION Group Annual Report 2024.
The extensive requirements of the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) have also been fully implemented on a voluntary basis in accordance with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). The KION Group’s sustainability report is an integral part of the consolidated management report in the annual report for the first time and has been subject to a voluntary limited assurance engagement. The independent auditor’s report is available in the KION Group Annual Report 2024.
Collection of Data and Information
The standardized key performance indicators (KPIs) in this report were collected from a total of 47 reporting units. For 14 production and administrative sites—known as plants—the data was collected individually, while the 33 reporting points for sales and service organizations partly comprise data from multiple sites. Varying degrees of data-gathering aggregation are indicated wherever relevant, where in exceptional cases the data does not cover all employees or subsidiaries in the scope of this report.
The figures in this Sustainability Report have been rounded in accordance with commercial practice. This may result in differences between the sum of the individual amounts given in the tables and the overall totals stated, as well as between the figures stated in the tables and their analysis in the main text of the Sustainability Report. All percentage changes and KPIs were calculated based on the underlying data.
Data collection, which forms the main basis for the key figures contained in this report, is ensured across the company through internal reporting systems.
Forward-looking Statements
This report contains forward-looking statements based on the current plans, objectives, outlooks, and estimates of the management of Linde MH. The management cannot guarantee that these forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. There are many different risks and uncertainties that could impact the future development of Linde MH EMEA and its subsidiaries, as well as its results, meaning actual events or results could differ from those reflected in the forward-looking statements.
Further Information and Resources
Additional information about Linde MH’s sustainability strategy can be found on the company’s website at www.linde-mh.de.
Additional information about sustainability within the KION Group as a whole can be found on the KION Group website and in the KION Group Annual Report 2024.