
Konecranes is involved in the material impacts on people
through its activities on governance (the Code of Conduct
setting the direction for these activities), supplier
management (the Supplier Code of Conduct setting the
direction, supported by the Know Your Supplier Policy) as
well as different people-related activities that are guided by
the Company’s policies such as the Human Rights Policy, the
Inclusion & Diversity policy statement, as well as the Talent
Acquisition and Recruitment policy.
In the reporting year, no material financial effects on the
financial position, financial performance or cash flows have
been identified regarding material risks and opportunities.
No significant risk for material adjustments in the next
annual reporting period has been identified. The resilience
of Konecranes’ strategy and business model regarding
the capacity to address material impacts and risks, and to
take advantage of the material opportunities, is discussed
in connection with the material topics in Material impacts,
risks and opportunities and their interaction with strategy
and business model as well as under relevant topic-
specific standards. Resilience is ensured through several
interconnected topics and processes, like the double
materiality assessment results, enterprise risk management,
short- and long-term planning, strategy process and
governance, which are also discussed in the respective
sections of this sustainability statement.
The double materiality assessment for the reporting year
2024 was revisited during 2025. As a result, one new material
topic was identified, namely Protection of Whistleblowers.
Also, the materiality of the following topics was assessed
to be below the materiality threshold: Extreme Weather
Events in E1, Adequate Wages, Freedom of Association and
Work-life Balance in S1 and Working Time and Forced Labor
in S2. In addition to the impacts, risks and opportunities
that are covered by the ESRS Disclosure Requirements,
Konecranes has identified two entity-specific material
topics: Product security and Cyber-preparedness and
enterprise resilience. These entity-specific material impacts,
risks and opportunities are disclosed in Material impacts,
risks and opportunities and their interaction with strategy
and business model as well as with the entity-specific
disclosures in S4 Consumers and end-users (product
security) and G1 Business conduct (cyber-preparedness and
enterprise resilience).
Impact, risk and opportunity
management
IRO-1
Description of process to identify and assess
material impacts, risks and opportunities
In assessing its impacts, risks and opportunities,
Konecranes has followed the draft guidance of double
materiality assessment provided by the European
Securities and Market Authority (ESMA). First, a model for
the assessment was created by mapping the value chain
including all the relevant stakeholders and their interests
towards ESRS topics. Then, the thresholds for materiality
were defined.
Different information sources were used to map the
stakeholders and their interests: Regulations (topics that
are highly regulated or topics with emerging regulations);
investors (feedback from ESG ratings and discussions
with investors); customers (customer requests, annual
benchmarking and a thesis work from 2023 including a
customer questionnaire); competitors (annual competitor
benchmark, and various discussions with customers);
employees (subject matter experts, Employee Engagement
Survey results and Pulse surveys’ results); Company
management (Konecranes’ strategy and values, and
discussions with the management). To include insights on
how affected stakeholders may be impacted, Konecranes
used the insights collected from interviews with suppliers’
employees during third-party supplier audits, as well
as information collected from the internal Employee
Engagement Surveys and the Pulse surveys.
In general, the same approach was used for identifying,
assessing, prioritizing and monitoring financial risks and
opportunities. First, it was assessed whether the topic is a
risk or an opportunity by nature – or both. Next, the size of the
financial effect (in EUR) was evaluated considering short-,
medium- and long-term time horizons.
A long list of all aspects of sustainability was created
including the sub- and sub-sub-topics. The next step was to
define the topics that were not relevant for Konecranes and
exclude them from the scope.
For defining the thresholds for materiality, the framework
was aligned with Konecranes’ Enterprise Risk Management
(ERM) methodology as much as possible. The ERM scales
were used to define the impact severity of scale, scope and
irremediability (1–4; low, medium, severe, very severe) and
likelihood (1–4; low, possible, likely, highly likely). The average
of severity mirrored with likelihood then showed if the impact
is minor, significant, major or critical (1–4). The process did not
prioritize negative or positive impacts; both were assessed
with the same approach. The impacts were assessed in
relation to Konecranes’ own operations and upstream and
downstream value chain. For assessing financial effects, it
was assessed whether the topic is a risk or an opportunity by
nature – or both. Then the ERM-aligned approach was used
to evaluate a potential monetary value (1–4; minor, significant,
major or critical) considering short-, medium- and long-term
time horizons. This evaluation considered whether the topic
is related to potential income or costs. In addition, it was
analyzed whether the effect was reputational, legal, people-
or environment-related. The likelihood of the financial effect
was also assessed (1–4; low, possible, likely, highly likely).
Finally, the actual financial effect was a result of the scale of
the monetary effect adjusted by its likelihood. Out of the
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