Our impact
Working together.
For a sustainable future.
Driving innovation as we respect the future of people and the planet.
Building a fair and responsible future is an ongoing journey.
Our vision inspires 3Shape on our sustainability journey, and ‘Improving people’s lives’ is one of our core values and a cornerstone for making decisions in our daily business. Through socially and environmentally responsible initiatives we are on a mission to engage 3Shape’s workforce to create long-term sustainable value through initiatives across the organization.
3Shape Key Initiative Highlights
3Shape supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on Good Health and Well-being, Gender Equality, Innovation, and Climate Action.
These four SDGs reflect the areas we have the greatest potential to help create positive change by:
- Deploying 3Shape’s capabilities and expertise through innovation.
- Empowering 3Shape’s people to give back to communities.
- Managing 3Shape responsibly.
3Shape ESG strategy. Our 2028 goals.
Ensure superior patient care
Work with dentists and patients to formalize the positive contribution of 3Shape technology to the good health and well being of patients.
Embrace circularity in product and process
Calculate cross-organizational greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact.
Foster an inclusive and engaging employee experience
Ensure continuous enabling and monitoring of an inclusive and engaging employee experience through a Global DE&I Roadmap.
Embed accountability and integrity in all that we do
Establish an ESG governance framework that incorporates responsibility and ownership of the sustainability agenda across the business.
Innovate with passion
Embed sustainability and diversity into the core of 3Shape’s business – our innovation.
Our sustainability roadmap
3Shape is on a sustainability journey, and we have a detailed plan of initiatives to put us on the right path.
Highlights include:
- Measuring our Greenhouse Gas emissions. Having completed our global Scope 1 and 2 emission calculations, we are now embarking on estimating our Scope 3 emissions.
- Knowledge sharing with key business partners to lead a collective effort to lessen the environmental impact of the dental industry.
- Identifying our environmental footprint with regards to waste generation sources, including non-hazardous as well as electronic and other hazardous waste categories.
- Implementing Peakon, a global survey tool, to track employee engagement and well-being.
- Collaboration with ReDi School of Digital Integration to empower women with migrant backgrounds to pursue a career in tech.
- Collaboration with Nordic Women in STEM to empower young women to join the STEM field.
- Implementation of Dansk Industri’s Diversity Pledge to achieve a minimum of 40% of underrepresented gender in by 2030. We have set an earlier target of achieving 40% by 2027.
- Launch of a global anonymous whistleblower system.
- Screening of suppliers according to sustainability criteria to identify high-risk suppliers.
3Shape Key Results in 2022
Environmental Responsibility
2,986 tones CO₂e emissions from Scope 1 and 2.
3,829kg CO₂e emissions were avoided through the purchase of 1,281kg of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through the Partner Plus Benefit program with Lufthansa Group.
Employee well-being & community relations
7.9 Employee Satisfaction Score.
8.2 Global Diversity & Inclusion Score.
DKK 650,000.00 was donated to the Danish Refugee Council in response to the war in Ukraine.
Governance responsibility
+1.2 million scans by active TRIOS scanners.
Establishment of ESG Governance Body.
25% of top management positions are held by women, 35% of middle management, and 50% of lower management.
Challenges and opportunities in 2022
Downloads and Documents
Access our annual ESG report and read more about 3Shape's sustainability efforts.