ESG & Sustainability Plans
Environmental Policy
ISO 14001:2015 is an internationally agreed standard that sets out the requirements for an Environmental Management System (EMS). This pending certification will help us improve our environmental performance through more efficient use of resources and waste reduction, gaining a competitive advantage and the trust of stakeholders.
Plainview, NY Facility will include:
Motion-sensor activated LED illumination throughout building
- Motion-sensor activated LED illumination throughout building
- Motion controlled faucet in bathroom to reduce water waste
- Smart building energy management system – receives input from the environmental sensors, local controls, and metering devices, and based on its sensory input, it adjusts lighting, HVAC, fans to minimize energy waste and maximize savings
- Six E-Car charging stations at building provided to our staff
Partnered as subsidiary of the Nynomic Group, tec5USA is committed to follow the Nynomic ESG mission to make the world a better place for this and future generations. We achieve this by implementing innovative photonic measurement technology to measure parameters that are of vital importance in the fields of life science, green tech and cleantech. We offer the entire value chain of non-contact optical measurement technology –from components and systems to the applicable solution. Our customers can flexibly choose from our product portfolio regarding the degree of integration, depending on what best fits their requirements. Below are three examples of organizations tec5USA is partnered with to enhance our mission.
As Special Expedition members of Climeworks, we help them to scale their technology to remove 100kg of CO2 from the air a month.
Climeworks uses a technology called ‘direct air capture’ to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air. When the removed CO₂ is combined with underground storage, it allows the permanent removal of excess and legacy CO₂ emissions, which can no longer contribute to climate change.
Read moretec5USA is proud to be a donor to WeForest. Established in 2010, WeForest develops holistic and multi-stakeholder reforestation projects through a Forest and Landscape Restoration approach. Our vision is of a world where communities and nature sustainably thrive together to stop global warming ‘in our lifetime’. Our mission is focused on conserving and restoring the ecological integrity of forest landscapes with local communities to deliver lasting solutions for climate, nature, and people. Today we have over 40 000ha (400million m2) and 47 million trees under restoration across 3 continents; and aim by 2025 to reach a total of 100,000 ha (100 million trees).
Read moretec5USA is an Independent Supporter of The Ocean Cleanup, which is a nonprofit environmental engineering organization based in the Netherlands, that develops technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and intercept it in rivers before it can reach the ocean.
The organization conducts scientific research into oceanic plastic pollution. Their ocean system consists of a floating barrier at the surface of the water in the oceanic gyres, that collects marine debris as the system is pushed by wind, waves and current, and slowed down by a sea anchor. The project aims to launch a total of 60 such systems, and they predict this capability could clean up 50% of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years from full scale deployment.
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Governance & Compliance
tec5USA, Inc. prepares its financial statements annually in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). The financial statements are reviewed by our Independent Accountants Macias Gini & O’Connell LLP. tec5USA, Inc. is a 51% owned subsidiary of tec5 AG with both companies forming part of the larger Nynomic Group.
Read moretec5USA’s principles are accountability, integrity, respect for others, honesty, respect for laws, responsibility, transparency, compassion, fairness, loyalty, and environmental concern through our leadership.
At tec5USA we provide annual trainings on antibribery and anticorruption and through our social and governance standards, we hold our employees accountable through these preventive trainings.
tec5USA and their customers will benefit from ISO 27001 certification in several ways. The ISO 27001 pending certification will help reduce the risk of cyber-attacks and implements procedures and controls consistent with international best practices and standards. We conduct quarterly IT audits and third-party inspections that verify that internal controls are consistently followed. All our employees are required to attend IT security and awareness training. This certification will also ensure ongoing compliance with several Federal and international regulations. Lastly, all customer data, including email correspondence, is maintained in a highly secured manner on tec5USA’s IT systems, which are subject to biannual penetration tests and access controls reviewed by system administrators. We maintain hourly encrypted data backup and conduct periodic tests compliant with COB standards (Continency of Business operations). In case of emergencies such as power loss or other issues at the primary office facility, tec5USA has procedures in place that allow them to operate their business and service their customers transparently from alternate locations.
