he Double Materiality Assessment provides SSE with a clearer understanding of how sustainability priorities are perceived across its ecosystem.
While each stakeholder group approaches ESG through a different lens, their perspectives ultimately converge around the factors most critical to SSE’s long-term performance.
Employees highlight operational realities, including safety culture, pollution prevention and regulatory compliance. Leadership focuses on strategic exposure and long-term competitiveness, particularly climate transition, reputation and governance. External stakeholders evaluate SSE primarily through its climate performance, innovation capacity and transparency.
Together, these perspectives provide a balanced and robust view of SSE’s sustainability priorities.
FROM MATERIALITY TO STRATEGIC INTEGRATION
2025–2027 Implementation Focus
Beyond identifying priorities, the Double Materiality Assessment provides a clear direction for action.
Over the coming years, SSE will focus on strengthening the integration of sustainability across its operations and decision-making processes. Key areas of focus include:
Integrating climate, pollution and carbon considerations into investment decisions, procurement and operational planning
Embedding ESG and circularity indicators into innovation and R&D processes
Strengthening ESG data governance and reporting readiness, starting with carbon footprint tracking and decarbonisation monitoring
Reinforcing safety leadership and workforce development initiatives across sites
Enhancing environmental transparency and stakeholder dialogue
Through this structured approach, the Double Materiality Assessment acts as a bridge between RESONANCE’s strategic ambition and its operational execution. It ensures that sustainability priorities are systematically embedded into decision-making across the Group.
SSE Science Academy
Developing expertise and innovation across SSE The SSE Science Academy is a key initiative of the RESONANCE programme, designed to strengthen expertise, accelerate knowledge sharing and support innovation across the Group.
Launched in 2024, the Academy creates a shared learning environment connecting engineers, operators and technical experts across SSE’s Civil Explosives and Fine Chemicals activities. By combining digital learning tools, mentoring programmes and expert collaboration, the initiative supports the development of critical technical skills while reinforcing SSE’s long-term innovation capacity.
“At SSE, strong technical expertise is the foundation of both safety, innovation and responsible operations. With the SSE Science Academy now operational across our Civil Explosives activities and expanding into Fine Chemicals, we are strengthening engineering capabilities, accelerating knowledge transfer and connecting experts across the Group. By investing in structured learning and mentorship, we not only develop our people and attract the next generation of engineers, but also equip our teams to continuously improve operational performance and environmental responsibility across SSE.”
Marcin Rzemiński CEO SSE Polska
Thomas Bornheim CEO SSE Deutschland
SSE SCIENCE ACADEMY KEY HIGHLIGHT
In 2025, the SSE Science Academy moved from concept to operational deployment within the Civil Explosives business unit, while development advanced for a dedicated programme in Fine Chemicals. Key milestones achieved during the year include:
4 training modules launched across the Group
257 training participations recorded
Health & Safety – 85 participants
Problem Solving & Innovative Thinking – 43 participants
Generation Management – 43 participants
Geo-Konzept technical workshop – 86 participants
32 mentors engaged across SSE
7 countries / 8 companies involved
Digital learning platform deployed across Civil Explosives
These first results demonstrate strong engagement from engineering teams and confirm the relevance of a structured knowledge-sharing platform across the Group.
IMPACT ACROSS SSE
Beyond individual training modules, the SSE Science Academy contributes to multiple dimensions of SSE’s transformation:
Technical excellence Strengthening engineering and operational expertise across the workforce.
Knowledge transfer Facilitating collaboration between experienced experts and younger engineers.
Operational consistency Supporting shared competence standards across sites and countries.
Innovation capability Enabling teams to adopt new technologies and improve operational practices.
Talent development Supporting employee growth and internal career development across the Group.
Through these contributions, the Science Academy helps build the expertise needed to support SSE’s long-term industrial performance and innovation capacity.
SSE SCIENCE ACADEMY CIVIL EXPLOSIVES
A digital platform for learning and collaboration In Civil Explosives, the Science Academy is structured around a digital learning platform oroviding training modules, webinars and mentoring programmes for engineers and operational staff.
Initial modules focus on key operational capabilities, including safety practices, innovation and problem-solving methods, leadership skills and specialised blasting software training. Since the platform’s launch in August 2025, engineers from multiple SSE entities have already accessed the learning modules and knowledge library. The platform allows employees to follow training sessions online, revisit recorded workshops and track their learning progress.
A structured mentoring programme complements the digital platform by connecting experienced experts with younger engineers. Through practical exchanges and real operational case discussions, mentors support the development of technical skills while fostering collaboration across sites and countries.
„The SSE Science Academy shows that learning and development are taken seriously at SSE. As a user of the platform, I see real value in the webinars, training sessions and exchanges with colleagues, because they support both my technical growth and my daily work in the field. It is a practical way to strengthen expertise, share knowledge across borders and build a stronger engineering community within the Group. That kind of investment in people makes a real difference.”
Christian Thomas Blasting Engineer, SSE Deutschland
SSE SCIENCE ACADEMY CLOSER LOOK
FINE CHEMICALS
In Fine Chemicals, the Science Academy is being developed to strengthen expertise in complex chemical processes and support operational excellence.
During 2025, SSE initiated the design of a dedicated competence framework and training architecture tailored to chemical production environments.
The programme will focus on key topics such as process chemistry fundamentals, operational safety, analytical methods and equipment operation.
This work lays the foundations for the progressive deployment of the Academy within Fine Chemicals, ensuring that training programmes reflect the specific technical challenges of advanced chemical manufacturing.
The SSE Science Academy Fine Chemicals initiative was developed to strengthen structured knowledge transfer and training for our employees. In 2025 we defined the concept of the academy and began preparing the digital learning platform together with the first training modules. The goal is to make essential operational knowledge, analytical methods and best practices easily accessible to employees. The project also helps capture valuable expertise from subject matter experts and translate it into practical training content. By establishing this learning environment, SSE is creating a foundation for continuous competence development. In the future, the Science Academy will support sustainable knowledge sharing and strengthen operational excellence across the organization.
Fredy Salzmann Training Manager, SSE Switzerland/ Valsynthese SA
Pillar 1: Unlock innovation
We believe that innovation is a game Changer to build efficient and Sustainable solutions in the civil Explosive and fine chemicals Sectors
Drawing by daughter, age 9
«Together with my team, we implement and use drilling and blasting technologies in our everyday work to operate more safely and smartly. An important part of this development is the SSE Science Academy – a platform where employees expand their knowledge and skills, supporting safe and efficient work. Being a parent, reminds me that innovation is also a responsibility for the world we leave behind for the next generation”.
Zbigniew Cichocki Blasting Engineer, Area Manager, SSE Polska
UNLOCKING INNOVATION IS CENTRAL TO SSE’S LONG-TERM COMPETITIVENESS AND RESILIENCE.
The Double Materiality Assessment confirmed innovation and green markets among the most material strategic topics for SSE. Stakeholders expect industrial companies to develop more efficient processes, advanced technologies and solutions supporting the transition toward lower-carbon and resource-efficient systems.
Operating in energy-intensive and highly regulated sectors, SSE must continuously improve operational performance while adapting to evolving technological and environmental challenges.
Innovation therefore plays a key role in enabling SSE to strengthen operational excellence while preparing its activities for future industry developments.
Three drivers of innovation at SSE
Science Academy
Artificial Intelligence
Big Deal
FROM EMERGING INITIATIVES TO A STRONGER INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
In 2025, SSE strengthened several innovation initiatives launched in 2024, contributing to the development of a stronger innovation ecosystem across the Group.
The SSE Science Academy evolved into a competence development platform supporting both business units. It provides engineers, operators and specialists with digital learning modules, mentoring programmes and shared knowledge resources that support collaboration and technical excellence across markets.
At the same time, SSE expanded the exploration of Artificial Intelligence applications to improve operational efficiency, safety and service optimisation, with pilot projects launched across production, maintenance and service activities.
In parallel, the Group initiated Big Deal, a Business Intelligence programme designed to centralise data, strengthen reporting capabilities and support real-time decisionmaking across the organisation.
Together, these initiatives strengthen expertise, digital capabilities and datadriven decision-making across SSE.
“In an industry shaped by technological progress and rising sustainability expectations, innovation must be built on strong capabilities.
In 2025, SSE strengthened the foundations of its innovation ecosystem. Through the SSE Science Academy, the exploration of Artificial Intelligence applications and the development of advanced data intelligence tools, we are equipping our teams with the knowledge, technologies and insights needed to continuously improve our operations and better support our customers. By combining human expertise with digital innovation, we are strengthening our ability to deliver more efficient processes, smarter solutions and long-term value for the industries we serve.”
Gilles de Preux CEO SSE Group
SSE Science Academy
Developing expertise and innovation across SSE The SSE Science Academy is a key initiative of the RESONANCE programme, designed to strengthen expertise, accelerate knowledge sharing and support innovation across the Group.
AI-based solutions
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to improve operational and sustainability performance
BUILDING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR DATA-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING
Turning data into smarter decisions
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