About Axalta

Engagement & Looking Ahead

Axalta’s business success and leadership in the industry depends upon our ability to meet our stakeholders’ expectations. We consider our shareholders, customers, employees, communities, and suppliers to be the stakeholder groups most critical for us to maintain our license to operate and to drive value. Ways in which we communicate with each stakeholder group and their topics of interest vary. We are committed to addressing their expectations in ongoing engagements and throughout this report.

Stakeholder Group Engagement Mechanisms Example topics of interest Engagement Examples

Shareholders

  • Annual meeting
  • Quarterly and annual reports
  • Business growth
  • Increased EBITDA
  • Productivity
  • Return on capital
Quarterly reports and webcasts

Customers

  • Customer learning and development centers
  • Sales meetings
  • Products
  • Service and support
  • Quality
  • Innovation
learning and development center

Employees

  • Axalta intranet
  • Employee newsletters
  • Training and development sessions
  • Job satisfaction
  • Pride in Axalta
  • Development and growth
AXcelerate program

Suppliers

  • Supplier portal
  • Supplier Code of Conduct
  • Supplier development
  • Efficiency
  • Ethics and integrity
supplier diversity program

Communities

  • Community meetings
  • Corporate giving
  • Safe operations
  • Support local needs
  • Careers
supporting education in indian communities

Awards & Recognition

“We put our customers first.” This is the first of Axalta’s five company values. Our efforts ranging from product development, production, and sale to after sales service and support are each undertaken with this singular purpose in mind. The many ways in which we engage with our customers is key to our success because it is key to their success as well. It is therefore gratifying when our efforts to meet their expectations are recognized by our customers.

Awards and Recognition

Developing our report

Axalta uses a cross-functional Sustainability Council to ensure that we are evolving our approach to sustainability at the company, and thus reporting on issues most important to our business and our stakeholders. Comprised of global leaders representing functional disciplines and product segments, the Council also guided the process by which we determined the content of this report. Members of the Council on an ongoing basis advise management and business teams about emerging stakeholder expectations regarding sustainability-related procedures and goals. The Council meets several times per year as a group and more frequently in smaller working groups. A series of workshops with the Council were convened to determine the material topics for this report. The robust materiality assessment Axalta conducted in 2014 was reviewed and the identified material issues were determined to be still relevant for this report. We have made significant progress since our first Sustainability Report in establishing policies, procedures, and initiatives surrounding these key issues, and our specific accomplishments are described throughout this report.

Axalta Sustainability Council Composition

Axalta Sustainability Council Composition

Looking ahead

As we publish our second sustainability report, we have much we can be proud of — our people, our innovations, our performance, and our role as a community member. However, we also recognize that there is also much more we can and want to achieve. While we have 150 years of experience and know-how, we have only been an independent company for the past three years, and these three years have been a period of consolidation and discovery for us in terms of what sustainability means to us and how it continues to shape our identity. As we continue to mature and evolve as a company, so must our approach to sustainability. Recognizing this, some of our key objectives for the next report cycle include:

  • Continue to review and where necessary improve our processes and programs to ensure we are responding to the evolving marketplaces in which we and our customers operate.
  • Review and analyze our performance across operations, environment, safety, product stewardship, and people and using our past three years of data, develop appropriate short- and medium-term targets to ensure we continue to drive and encourage continuous improvement.
  • Continue to review with our customers their expectations for quantifying the metrics by which we measure our sustainability performance and the sustainability benefits our coatings provide.
  • Enhance further the robustness of our audit procedures, particularly with respect to operational EHS performance.
  • Reinforce and promote our people programs — motivating and retaining our staff, attracting the best talent, and building our talent pipeline.
  • Continue to deliver on The Axalta Way.

We look forward to the opportunity to meet these challenges.