Increased shipping fees and delays pushed us to find more efficiencies in our ordering processes and temporarily adjust our budget for shipping and handling. We found ourselves making difficult choices to get product to our customers on time. In addition to creating flexible and remote working capabilities, we’ve amplified our employee wellness program and implemented special benefits for our essential, hourly workers who cannot work remotely.Įxternally, supply chain bottlenecks and port logjams related to COVID-19 affected businesses large and small last year. Internally in our facilities, we’ve created new benefits to keep our workers safe. Yes, the pandemic will continue to evolve and impact business, but we look forward to evolving quickly too. Our teams have actively fundraised and supported organizations such as Water for Life and The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. We plan to keep “doing well by doing good,” to quote Ben Franklin. Some of our work here includes: reducing our freight miles, reducing emissions, utilizing recycled and compostable packaging where possible, being more energy efficient in our buildings, reducing our water use, giving back to our communities, and ensuring that we have a diverse management team. Our key sustainability objectives, based on the UN’s sustainable development goals, are Climate Change, the Circular Economy, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In addition to building products that protect lives and livelihoods, we prioritize the impact and influence we have on the planet and people around us. We plan to deepen our presence in other geographies too, so there’s much to look forward to in this area.Īs a Halma company, we are truly committed to making the world cleaner, safer and healthier for everyone. As we continue to grow as a company this year, we’re excited that our Asian partners and customers will be a crucial part of what we do. Another benefit of doing more local work while being a global company is that the unique challenges of each market will feed into our new product ideas that ultimately benefit customers everywhere. We’re also thrilled to reduce our environmental impact by lessening the quantity of product we ship out from the US. By filling locally, we serve our customers more effectively and can better meet local authorities’ requirements for businesses. This year we’ll continue to build our team and presence in Asia.

Last year we celebrated the formal opening of our first fill station in India.

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