Making a difference to our world through glass technology

Our mission is to supply high-quality glass products that make an important contribution to improving living standards, to people's safety and well-being and to energy conservation and generation, working safely and ethically.

During 2011, we made further progress in embedding the principles of Sustainability within the NSG Group.

In the past year, we took the decision to join the UN Global Compact and to the advancement of its ten principles. We consider these to be a natural extension of our Code of Conduct, which defines our commitment to social and environmental responsibility.

We have also further strengthened our sustainability governance, with the allocation of defined responsibility to named individuals for managing and monitoring our progress on the indicators defined in the GRI reporting framework to which we subscribe. Corporate governance has been strengthened with the appointment of a Chief Compliance Officer for the Group.

Our principal Sustainability targets and the progress we have made so far towards their attainment are covered in the Sustainability Report 2011 and on our website.

We report in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and have self-assessed our reporting level at ‘B’ for the period covered by this year’s Report.