Sustainability

Stakeholder Engagement

Transparent and active Stakeholder engagement

The Group undertakes to identify and establish open and transparent dialogue with all its Stakeholders, i.e. all parties of any kind that contribute to the company’s activities or are influenced by them.
Establishing and maintaining constant dialogue with Stakeholders over time allows the Group to identify the most important sustainability issues and evaluate how to best integrate them into industrial and management activities.

Stakeholder Map

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Customers and consumer associations

Expectations

  • Road and infrastructure safety
  • Quality and continuity of the motorway infrastructure management service
  • Quality, safety and impacts of constructions

Ways of involvement

  • Customer experience
  • Organization of joint projects
  • Involvement in identifying material ESG issues

Suppliers, contractors and business partners

Expectations

  • Meritocratic and transparent selection process
  • Compliance with all competition and antitrust laws
  • Sharing of values in the development of corporate strategy and management
  • Protection of health and safety in the workplace
  • Creation of shared value

Ways of involvement

  • Definition and sharing of standards
  • Involvement of contractors and subcontractors in HSE initiatives
  • Dedicated meetings
  • Involvement in identifying material ESG issues

Regulatory bodies, institutions and the P.A.

Expectations

  • Compliance with legislation in all countries where the Group operates
  • Collaboration, technical support and information sharing
  • Participation in the territorial planning of activities

Ways of involvement

  • Dedicated institutional meetings
  • Work tables and conferences
  • Cooperation with local authorities and governments for health and safety prevention campaigns
  • Involvement in identifying material ESG issues

Employees and trade union organisations

Expectations

  • Health and safety in the workplace
  • Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities
  • Meritocratic professional development
  • Participation in company life
  • Work-life balance
  • Stability

Ways of involvement

  • Internal communication activities also through the company intranet
  • Training courses
  • Institutional channels of communication, including social media
  • Engagement Survey on specific issues
  • Meetings with trade union representatives
  • Involvement in identifying material ESG issues

Universities and Research Centers

Expectations

  • Research support

Ways of involvement

  • Partnership and sponsorship for research
  • Partnership for internship activities
  • Involvement in identifying material ESG issues

Local community

Expectations

  • Creation of shared value
  • Listening to requests and local representatives
  • Contribution and support to local initiatives
  • Access to information and intervention planning
  • Protection of cultural heritage and the environment
  • Protection of health and safety

Ways of involvement

  • Constant dialogue
  • Support for local initiatives
  • Involvement in identifying material ESG issues

The Media

Expectations

  • Completeness, transparency and timeliness of information
  • Accessibility and usability of information
  • Possibility of dialogue with the top management

Ways of involvement

  • Institutional communication channels
  • Press releases
  • Events
  • Constant dialogue
  • Interactions with top management
  • Involvement in identifying material ESG issues

Shareholders and lenders

Expectations

  • Creation of shared and sustainable value in the medium to long term
  • Corporate Governance and risk management
  • Transparency and timeliness in the information on company performance
  • Compliance with contractual targets (“covenants”)

Ways of involvement

  • Dialogue through the Investor Relations function
  • Press releases
  • Institutional communication channels
  • Shareholders’ Meeting
  • Dialogue with financial and ESG rating agencies
  • Involvement in identifying material ESG issues

The ASTM Group’s materiality matrix

In accordance with GRI Standards and international best practices, ASTM has defined its materiality analysis in order to identify, consistently with its strategic priorities and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, the most relevant sustainability issues. Using this process, the Group has considered aspects that have a significant impact on the economic, social and environmental performance and that could substantially influence the ratings and Stakeholders’ decisions as material.

This year road safety, motorway infrastructure safe­ty, occupational health and safety and anti-corrup­tion are once again some of the most important sustainability issues for the Group. Economic/financial sustainability, use of natural resources and waste management and energy consumption and GHG emissions are increasing in importance.

Some of our projects

Roadmap SDGs

Impact measurement

Customer satisfaction