This year’s winners of the Sustainable Business Awards, presented by the Sustainability Academy since 2014 to encourage companies to adopt business models in line with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals were announced at the ceremony that took place on November 25. Sustainability projects, which are of great significance at a time when we are faced with climate change, depletion of resources and threats to the future of the planet, are evaluated by a jury of leading academics and independent experts within the scope of the Sustainable Business Awards.

Maxion İnci Wheel Group, one of the pioneers of the Turkish automotive supply industry which keeps sustainability at the center of its activities made it to the finals in 4 categories: with Maxion İnci Energysaver, the aluminum wheel production energy management model project in the category of energy management, with Maxion İnci Zero Truck, the project designed to reduce the carbon footprint with the packaging optimization and hybrid delivery models in the category of carbon management, with the project designed to reduce water consumption in wheel production in the category of water management, and with the ShareMax Digital Communication Platform in the category of Sustainability communication - internal communication. Among these categories, Maxion İnci Wheel Group received the Energy Management award. Among the companies operating in the supply industry, Maxion İnci Wheel Group became the first company to win an award at the Sustainable Business Awards.

The award-winning Energysaver project of Maxion İnci Wheel Group consists of wheel-based energy data monitoring and the component-based improvements carried out accordingly in the production processes of aluminum wheel factories. As regular audits and measurements are conducted with the energy tracking system, swift actions are taken for the equipment exceeding the daily limit, and therefore, the machine park is operated in the most efficient way. Thanks to this dynamic system, the Group maintains its leadership in the wheel sector with the active participation of all employees.

“As Maxion İnci Wheel Group, we are happy to have achieved another breakthrough in our sector, and also motivated by this success award we have won in sustainability, in which we take effective actions. Our culture of always putting people at our center, as we do in every field and in every subject, of course, also applies to our sustainability efforts. With this perspective, we carry out exemplary activities that we will happily and proudly convey to future generations with the right investments in future projects. With each passing day, the topic of sustainability is coming to the forefront in our ways of doing business and in our activities. Seeing our goals, our employees, the society and the environment that we live in as a whole, we design effective projects in an effort to proceed with responsible and sensitive approaches and turn them into action. In this context, one of the aspects that we value the most is to act proactively to reduce our environmental impact. From the raw materials that we use to the waste generated during production, we shape every stage of the life cycle of our products in accordance with the mindset of sustainability. We are carrying out extensive activities to reduce our carbon footprint in a way that will serve the Sustainable Development Goals, while also implementing various projects aimed at water and energy saving. The fact that our energy project, one of the significant projects we have implemented in this context, was deemed worthy of an award, has given us strength in our long-term journey. I would like to thank the Sustainability Academy for encouraging companies in this direction. These types of activities are essential in order to create total awareness, which I consider very important for the success of sustainability. I would also like to congratulate my colleagues, who are our greatest strength behind this success and with whom we shape the future together.” said Mustafa Zaim, President of Maxion İnci and Maxion Jantaş, making a statement on the award received.