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Other achievements related to circularity include:
• All packaging is 100% recyclable
• The Cobolt in the battery in reMarkable Paper Pro device
is 50% recycled
• Battery longevity of reMarkable Paper Pro: The device
battery retains 96% of the total capacity after being
charged 500 times, ensuring a long life cycle.
After our circularity strategy was approved by the Sustainability
Steering Committee in 2024, we have already started to work
to achieve the ambitious targets in the strategy. The targets
are related to products, services and business models, and
includes topics such as material usage, efficient repair and
refurbishment processes. This work will continue in 2025 and
beyond.
Social Impact
As a Group with a global value chain, it is critical to be aware
of the impact we have on the societies around us and workers
in our value chain activities. Therefore, we believe in close
collaboration with our suppliers and stakeholders. We work
with our suppliers to define goals and actions that support our
efforts towards sustainability, and have continuous dialogue
with them to provide support and feedback.
Supply chain
Monitoring our suppliers’ compliance with our rules can be
challenging because of the complexity of our supply chain
with many businesses in different locations at different
tiers or levels within our supply chain. Therefore, the level
of influence we can exert over businesses in our supply
chain varies significantly. We usually have the greatest level
of influence over our tier 1 suppliers, where we have direct
contractual agreements.
When we choose suppliers, through the Request for Proposal
(RFP) processes, potential suppliers are evaluated based
on their capabilities within sustainability, and sustainability
commitments are defined as part of our process. Sustainability
questions also make up between 5% and 10% of the scorecard
which we use to evaluate the overall performance of key global
suppliers every year, not included the absolute requirements
we use to screen all suppliers. We aim to work with suppliers
sharing our values and concerns for the future.
reMarkable is taking several steps to ensure that human rights
and decent working conditions are respected throughout the
supply chain, all the way down to raw material sub-suppliers.
In 2024, we have continued the work to ensure a systemized
and risk-based approach to our suppliers. After developing
our Supplier Code of Conduct, all key suppliers have signed
this, ensuring an equal playing field for our suppliers. This
covers issues including human rights, labour standards,
environmental management, and bribery and corruption. We
will continue the work to update and improve the code itself,
and our suppliers’ understanding of it in 2025. Suppliers not
accepting the Supplier Code of Conduct shall be disqualified
to participate in a RFx process.
All suppliers will have to go through an ESG Due Diligence Tool,
which identifies potential risks related to environmental, social
and/or governance aspects. All our current direct first tier
suppliers are also onboarded on this platform, which allows
us to efficiently monitor and collaborate with our suppliers on
improvement points. This tool requires annual updates from
the suppliers, ensuring our risk assessments are up to date.
Our work with suppliers in 2024 includes developing an annual
wheel to follow up on key impacts on the world and people. We
have addressed Sustainability KPIs that will be used to assess
sustainability performance in frequent business reviews with
our suppliers, and we have other sustainability data points
that are reported annually. These are linked to topics such
as Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, energy usage, material
usage, human rights impact, decent working conditions,
business conduct and supplier management. We continue
to monitor compliance and promote improved performance
through our supplier performance reviews, focusing
particularly on high-risk and strategic suppliers in 2025.
Norwegian entities beyond certain thresholds need to comply
with the Norwegian Transparency Act. This is a legislation
that requires companies to assess the risk of contributing to
human rights violations and risk of violating decent working
conditions in the value chain. The responsibility includes the
entire value chain, to extraction of raw materials. This is one of
the reasons we request information on how our suppliers and
business partners work with fundamental human rights and
decent working conditions. Our suppliers are also requested
to share the same information from their supply chain. We use
that information to conduct risk assessments to identify and
mitigate potential and actual negative impact we can have
on these important areas. This is extensive work, and we are
constantly striving to improve our work in the area.
For 2024, we have changed the definition of first tier direct
suppliers, to all direct suppliers we have a direct contractual
relationship with. Based on that, we have sent information
requests to 25 suppliers. As this work for 2024 is continuing
until June 2025, so far ten out those 25 suppliers have
completed their survey, whilst four are in the process of
responding. Seven of our first tier suppliers have shared
relevant sub-suppliers in the supply chain, with the result of
close to 200 second tier suppliers being invited in the tool to
reply for 2024. We aim to significantly increase the numbers of
suppliers that have successfully submitted their input to the
tool in the first half of 2025, and trust our understanding of
human rights and decent working condition risks are better
compared to previous years. For the avoidance of doubt, we
expect our suppliers to be accountable for managing risk in
their operations and to understand that we expect them to hold
their own suppliers accountable to the same high standards.
Besides the aspects required by Norwegian law, we also
assess the risk in our value chain on corruption, political
stability, LGBTI rights and gender equality. Findings from our
work is published on reMarkable.com, and updated annually
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