Bayer - Eco-Minds

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Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany. Its products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. Being a research-oriented company, Bayer encourages scientific innovation.

Environmental protection and sustainable development constitute an integral part of Bayer's corporate policy. Commercial efficiency, ecology and social responsibility are factors of equal importance in all its activities. Bayer is aware of its responsibilities as a corporate citizen and believes its technical and commercial expertise entails a duty to dedicate itself to the well-being of mankind and the protection of the environment. Bayer's slogan is: "Bayer: Science For A Better Life".
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Sustainable Development

Bayer's Sustainable Development Report

Sustainability has become a guiding principle for global development. It is defined as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." A balanced relationship between economic, ecological and social development is essential. Through sustainable development, living conditions in many parts of the world can be improved in an ecologically acceptable manner.
Bayer has been committed to environmental protection and sustainable development for many years. Young people have always played a key role in this. After all, it is they who will have to make the big decisions of tomorrow, so it is all the more important to involve them today in caring responsibly for our planet. Bayer, being an inventor company, attaches special importance to pioneering spirit, innovation and new technologies to solve social tasks. We want to help make young people aware of the possibilities offered by modern environmental protection, with the spotlight on environmentally compatible and resource-conserving processes as part of the overall economic cycle. In the global context, the transfer of technological know-how is of major importance for environmentally friendly industrial development.

Innovations

Bayer invests extensively in technology because innovation is the foundation for competitiveness and growth, and thus for our future success.

By focusing our resources on the expanding areas of our innovative HealthCare, CropScience and MaterialScience businesses, we lay the foundations for sustained, long-term growth in future markets. We believe synergistic potential exists in the use of our technologies by more than one of our subgroups. Here we draw on the expertise that our scientists have acquired over decades of interdisciplinary research. Innovative applications for biotechnology and nanotechnology also hold promise for us in the future.

Supplementing the subgroups' targeted R&D activities is our subsidiary Bayer Innovation GmbH, set up specifically to turn innovative project ideas into new business concepts. This company not only looks at individual products but also seeks to open up new business opportunities, such as those offered by the combination of materials and active substances in medical applications, or the continuing development of optical data storage media for security systems.