Benchmark is committed to providing a safe and respectful workplace for our employees and conducting business in a socially responsible and sustainable way.
Benchmark is committed to furthering our sustainability efforts throughout our business. We believe that our stakeholders must be considered in our everyday actions. While our core competencies are innovative product design, engineering services, technology solutions, and advanced manufacturing services, our business is about people – our customers, our employees, our investors, and our communities.
Benchmark's approach to ESG and sustainable infrastructure is a strategic imperative at Benchmark. Together as One Benchmark team, we continue to further build sustainable processes and solutions to positively impact the environment, engage our people, support our local communities, and continue advancing our vision with customers.
This report, along with our commitment to provide future updates and communications, clearly demonstrates Benchmark’s culture of accountability and transparency.
Previous Reports:
2021 Sustainability Report
2022 Sustainability Report
Benchmark Product Sustainability Services strive to reduce the environmental impact and improve the circular economic value of products by leveraging the power of integrated design engineering and supply chain services. Guided by customer’s ESG/Sustainability goals like Net Zero, we provide them with solutions for their sustainability challenges.
We have further enhanced the quality of our sustainability disclosures. Benchmark is committed to communicating our progress and has mapped its report to several prominent ESG reporting frameworks, including:
At Benchmark, we value our people. We are driven to advance our diversity journey in every aspect of our culture through communication, education, and engagement. We are passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion to best represent the uniqueness of the individuals who make up our organization and the communities we live in. Our core values and mission embrace this idea of inclusion fostering commitment to change and growth.
These recognition programs are often independently judged by experts representing a cross-section of the value chain including sustainability organizations, academia and thought-leaders. Accolades we have received for our commitment to ESG initiatives include:
Benchmark supports Rule 13p-1 under the Exchange Act (Conflict Minerals Law) and actively works to avoid sourcing conflict minerals that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in adjoining countries. Benchmark’s Conflict Mineral Policy provides all necessary conflict minerals content declarations.
Benchmark supports the Conflict Minerals Law and efforts to avoid sourcing Conflict Minerals directly or indirectly financing armed groups in the DRC and in adjoining countries.
At Benchmark, social and environmental responsibility expectations are communicated and agreed to by all new suppliers through a signed Declaration on Business Ethics and Compliance Letter. All suppliers must comply with these expectations. To learn more about our expectations of our suppliers and commitment to responsible supply chain management please review our Supplier Code of Conduct.
Benchmark’s Employee Code of Conduct reflects our core values and underlying commitment to ensuring we are fostering the best possible work environment for everyone. Oversight starts at the top by an Audit Committee that receives regular reports from Benchmark’s Chief Compliance Officer. We also encourage every team member to “Speak Up” to promote a positive and ethical organizational culture.