We were born in the 60s as a motor company, and a motor company is born to move the world.
But we are also a source of ideas and innovations, restless, vibrant, intense and tireless in the search for the best solutions for our customers.
We are a global company that moves at the pace of the needs of society and the economy of our time.
We contribute to a more efficient and sustainable world by investing in technologies for the energy transition and in intelligent solutions for industry, the countryside, cities and homes.
Our sustainability strategy is based on 4 pillars, each supported by themes and objectives:
Sustainable Products and Solutions
Technologies and Innovations for Energy Transition and Decarbonization
Provide products and services with the best efficiency and lowest carbon footprint, being the partner for our customers' decarbonization journey.
Improve circular design, expanding recyclability, dematerialization and durability of materials, products and packaging.
Responsible Supply Chain
Engaging a supply chain with ethics in Human Rights, Labor Relations and Environmental Preservation, assessing risks and enabling its development.
Promote the management of restricted materials according to the socio-environmental impacts of the business.
Circular and Efficient Operations
Eco-efficiency and Waste and Emissions Management
Optimize eco-efficiency in natural resource management, reducing, conserving and/or regenerating them, considering the impacts on ecosystems.
Reduce emissions and waste from industrial processes, ensuring proper treatment and disposal, and promoting the recycling and reuse of materials aligned with circularity principles.
Carbon Neutral Operations
Guarantee the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, promoting carbon neutrality in operations and contributing to medium and long-term global goals.
Expand the use of renewable energy (acquired or self-produced) and strive for excellence in operational efficiency in processes and businesses.
Engaged Employees and Communities
Integral Well-being, Diversity and Inclusion
Guarantee safe working conditions, promote physical and mental health, trust in relationships, alternative ways of working, generating a culture of quality of life.
Build an inclusive, innovative and high-performance environment, valuing diversity and empowering multiculturalism at all hierarchical levels of the company.
Ensure human rights recognized in international agreements and promote a culture of respect for others.
Sustainable Community Growth
Generate socioeconomic and environmental value in communities, through education, health and well-being, generation of knowledge and expertise in low-carbon technologies.
Strengthen the company's relationship with communities, considering local demands.
Seek to incorporate the preservation of biodiversity into current management practices.
Governance and Ethical Conduct
Compliance and Integrity
Strengthen WEG's culture of principles and values, ethics, integrity, and anti-corruption.
Reduce and mitigate risks, considering ESG criteria.
Engagement and Transparent Communication
Develop leaders and employees, strengthening competencies for business sustainability challenges.
Communicate about products, services, and the evolution of ESG topics, with transparency, generating value for stakeholders.
Recognitions
Agence mondiale de notation en matière de développement durable, WEG évalue les engagements, les pratiques, les indicateurs et les progrès des entreprises sur les questions ESG. WEG a obtenu le label OR en 2025 et figure parmi les 2 % des entreprises les mieux notées.
Une notation qui évalue et classe les entreprises en fonction des risques, des opportunités et de leurs impacts ESG. WEG détient le statut « Prime », qui distingue les entreprises leaders dans leurs secteurs respectifs.
Un système de notation qui effectue une analyse et une classification des risques ESG. WEG est restée classée dans la catégorie « faible risque ».
Cet indice analyse les entreprises les plus performantes cotées à la B3 (Bourse brésilienne) sous l'angle du développement durable. WEG figure dans le portefeuille sans interruption depuis 2012.
Un indice qui mesure la performance ESG des entreprises mondiales. WEG est restée membre du FTSE4Good en 2025, avec une augmentation de 24 % de son score.
Un indice mondial qui classe les entreprises selon leur performance en matière de développement durable, secteur par secteur et par type de portefeuille, en fonction de la région. WEG a enregistré une amélioration de 19 % de son score en 2025, ce qui lui a valu d'être reconnue et incluse dans le Sustainability Yearbook de S&P Global, qui rassemble les entreprises les plus performantes en matière de développement durable au sein de leurs secteurs respectifs.
Global rating agency for corporate decarbonization, water and forest management. WEG reports on the Climate and Water modules and has an A rating in both.
It assesses companies based on their performance in governance, targets, Scope 3 emissions, and value chain engagement in the CDP climate change questionnaire. WEG was ranked in the A (leader) list.
An index that measures the efficiency of companies' emissions in relation to their revenue. WEG has been continuously included in the index since 2016.
SBTi defines and promotes best practices in the development of science-based targets, independently evaluating companies' targets and enabling them to play their part in combating the climate crisis. WEG's targets were approved by SBTi for 2025.
In addition to the recognitions presented, WEG has recently achieved other important recognitions in different areas related to ESG, such as: Governance: Forbes Best CEOs in Brazil Innovation: Valor Inovação Place to work: Super Empresas Expansión Diversity: Empresas Top Mujeres - Súper Empresas para Mujeres Expansión General ESG: Época Negócios 360
