Subgroups and Service Companies

Bayer CropScience: Innovations to meet the global demand for food
Agriculture is facing some major challenges. The world’s population is growing relentlessly. At the same time, the growing demand for food is colliding with the restraints imposed by limited arable land and harvests at the mercy of climate change. The productivity of plants must be improved in order to ensure a sustainable supply of food worldwide.

As one of the leading companies in crop protection, seeds and plant traits, we believe that we have an obligation to work towards this goal. Every day, our technological expertise, our business skills and, not least, our products make an important contribution to achieving sustainable development. Research and development activities pursued on our own and with cooperation partners enable us to develop solutions which can safeguard and boost yields.

Sustainable agriculture can only be achieved on the basis of functioning ecosystems. The preservation of biodiversity is therefore one of our deeply rooted objectives. In many regions, particularly in Latin America and Asia, we also contribute to social and economic development by supporting local agriculture. The Food Chain Partnerships project organized by Bayer CropScience, for example, helps fruit and vegetable farmers to grow and market their produce.

Bayer MaterialScience: High-tech materials for increased energy efficiency
Our innovative materials offer efficient solutions to effectively counteract the increase in global energy consumption. The ecological focus of our sustainable development strategy is just one aspect. Sustainability is also firmly anchored in the safety, financial performance, product development and process engineering segments of our business. The success of our company is based primarily on our people. Their happiness, protection and safety are the top priorities for us. We take our responsibility to society and to all our stakeholders very seriously. To ensure the company’s sustainability, we need to deliver an impressive financial performance, and this is another cornerstone of our sustainability strategy.

We intend to play a leading role in reducing the environmental impact of our industry. Our particular focus is on reducing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions through innovative products and new, future-oriented applications in process engineering and development. These are projects that will benefit people both today and in the future.

We provide innovative materials for zero-emission houses as part of the EcoCommercial Building Program. This program shows how we are actively putting climate protection into practice.

Bayer Business Services: Services for a sustainable future
Bayer Business Services is the Bayer Group’s international competence center for IT and business services. We focus on offering services in the core areas of IT infrastructure and applications, procurement and logistics, human resources and management services, and finance and accounting. Our innovative solutions make business processes faster, simpler and more cost-efficient. In this way we make an important contribution to sustainable development at Bayer.

We are working on three initiatives – EcoFleet, Business Travel and Green IT – as part of the Bayer Climate Program. Under the EcoFleet initiative, we are looking to cut the CO₂ emissions of Bayer company vehicles by 20 percent between 2007 and 2012. Through the introduction of innovative high-definition video conferencing systems, the Business Travel initiative is providing carbon-dioxide-cutting alternatives to business trips. And through Green IT we aim to reduce the energy consumption of our three data centers by 20 percent between 2009 and 2012.

By introducing a new screen saver, which we installed in 2009 on all 85,000 PC and laptop workstations around the world supported by Bayer Business Services, and by changing PCs and laptops over to energy-saving settings we shall enable up to three million kilowatt hours of energy to be saved every year. That corresponds to a reduction of up to 1,700 metric tons of carbon dioxide.

Bayer Technology Services: Innovative environmental protection worldwide
Bayer Technology Services is the Bayer Group’s global technological backbone and a key innovation driver for the development, planning, construction and optimization of processes and plants.

Bayer Technology Services is involved in ensuring that Group-wide ecological and social responsibilities are met globally. This includes implementing international standards at all sites, as well as developing processes and planning and constructing plants in line with the latest technology.

We have, for example, developed the Bayer Climate Check, which provides detailed statistical data on all emissions caused by individual production processes. This instrument enables the prioritization of measures aimed at maximizing the potential for reducing emissions, and was successfully introduced at more than 100 production plants in 2009 as part of the Bayer Climate Program. On the basis of the good results achieved to date, a further 40 Bayer plants will be analyzed using this method by mid-2010, and the technology will also be offered to external companies.

Another example is BayOpX®, the Bayer Technology Services Operational Excellence Program, which is designed to identify further optimization potential, for example in raw materials consumption or plant availability.

Currenta: Energy-efficient chemical park operator
Currenta offers services for the chemical industry, including utility supply, waste management, infrastructure, safety and security, analytics and vocational training. This service company – a joint venture between Bayer and Lanxess – operates the CHEMPARK sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany.

As the manager of CHEMPARK, we offer attractive conditions for production, thereby maintaining the competitiveness of our sites. We focus on rigorously optimizing technologies and processes and on the implementation of our climate protection program A++, with the aim of increasing the energy and commercial efficiency of our facilities and at the same time conserving natural resources.

Occupational safety has a top priority at Currenta, which is why we launched our “Working together to improve safety” initiative in 2009. Through this we are endeavoring to further reduce the injury figures and establish a sustainable safety culture in the company. Another key area of our commitment is staff development and training. Our focus here is on our company health management system, age-appropriate workplace ergonomics, strengthening the leadership culture in the company, broadening staff qualification as part of a lifelong learning process and a future-oriented recruitment policy.