Winners of the title – Employee of the Year 2022 – in seven categories have been awarded:

• Employees of the Year in Cement Production: Anete Segliņa, Kristaps Graudiņš, Aija Veigure
• Employees of the Year in Commercial & Logistics: Oskars Nāburgs, Inga Norkus
• Employees of the Year in Materials: Ivars Celiņš, Pavels Ņikitajevs, Jurijs Lisovs
• Employees of the Year in Administration & Back Office: Matīss Plaudis, Inta Uzule-Rancāne
• Employees of the Year in H&S: Aleksandrs Jakušenkovs, Agris Buls
• Managers of the Year: Ruslans Lange, Krišjānis Lejnieks
• Growth of the Year: Valdis Bušs

The most sincere congratulations to our colleagues!

The Member of the Management Board, Environmental and Legal Director Evita Goša participated in the annual conference “Latvia – a country without waste”, emphasizing that the Brocēni cement plant is a cement producer and not a waste incinerator, as well as explaining the nature and use of alternative fuel in cement production.

Discussion: Latvia’s unused resources for energy independence – if and when will we put them to use? can be viewed on Latvian Green Point (Latvijas Zaļais punkts) YouTube.

Photos by Ieva Makare

In cement production, every step we take every day, every work we do every day, we do with care and responsibility for people, nature, Latvia and its sustainable future!

Holding our country in high honor, we congratulate everyone on the Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of Latvia!

The social initiative “Mission Zero” launched by SCHWENK Latvija was recognized as an important sustainability initiative at the founding event of the community of Responsible Business Ambassadors (ABV) organized by the Corporate Social Responsibility Platform (CSR Latvija).

Linda Šedlere, Member of the Management Board of SCHWENK Latvija, Director of Personnel and Administration, author of the initiative “Mission Zero”, expresses her delight that SCHWENK Latvija’s efforts to improve the work safety culture and employers’ concern for the health and safety of employees have already received support from more than 50 companies who have joined the Mission Zero.

For the tenth time, the competition “Safest Company Fleet” organized by AAS BALTA (PZU Group) and the Ministry of Transport has been held in Latvia, the purpose of which is to inform about trends in the road transport industry, to introduce solutions that promote road traffic safety, to be inspired by the good practices introduced by representatives of the industry and to honor the best fleets of companies.

On the 10th anniversary of the competition “Safest Company Fleet”, we are honored to receive the Decade Diamond Award in the category “Local (Baltic) Cargo Carriers and Special Purpose Vehicle Fleets”. We are pleased that our contribution in road safety and employee well-being is providing results, and together with our partners we will continue to work on this very important issue for all of us.

We congratulate our cooperation partner Delta LV for receiving the Decade Diamond Special Award “Safest in Road Traffic”.

Photos by AAS BALTA / Kaspars Garda

In order to popularize examples of good practice and share ideas on how to simply and effectively improve working conditions, the national competition “Golden Helmet” for good practice in the field of labor protection was held in Latvia for the eighteenth time. The purpose of the 2022 competition was to demonstrate the impact of positive labor protection measures on employee productivity and business as a whole.

In this year’s competition, we shared the experience of SCHWENK Latvija about the positive impact of labor protection measures in the field of cargo transportation, which was evaluated and ranked in the high 2nd place.

On October 28, in the Scientific Library of Riga Technical University, the participants and informative supporters of the social initiative “Mission Zero” gathered at the autumn forum of the initiative “H&S culture and challenges in the entire value chain, cooperation with customers and suppliers”.

The initiative proposed by SCHWENK Latvija and started this year has already been joined by 51 employers, who create an impact on 27,000 directly employed people daily.

The event was chaired by the Member of the Management Board Linda Šedlere, the panel discussion was moderated by the Member of the Management Board Evita Goša, Road Transport Safety Controller Toms Butkus shared our experience on safety of logistics transport, and the workshop was led by Communication Manager Antra Savleviča.

For more information about the initiative “Mission Zero” visit web site www.misijanulle.lv.

SCHWENK Latvija, in cooperation with Riga Technical University (RTU) Development Fund, invites graduates of educational institutions in Saldus region to apply for a study scholarship in the fields of energy, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and mechanics.

Application until September 18.

For students from a secondary vocational education institution: https://ej.uz/schwenkstipendija1
For students from RTU and LLU: https://ej.uz/schwenkstipendija2

Conversation festival LAMPA is a place where valuable conversations and exchange of ideas take place. SCHWENK Latvija participates in the Conversation Festival, bringing up to date issues relevant to the company, industry and society in expert discussions – environmental protection, sustainable production, responsible management and use of natural resources, prevention of shadow economy and corruption.

In order to discuss common values, mutual cooperation and future co-creation directions in creating the content of the festival, we invited the creative core of the LAMPA Conversation Festival – the organizing team – to visit the Brocēni cement plant. We presented the company, cement production and sustainability development of SCHWENK.

We hosted representatives of Getliņi EKO at the Brocēni cement plant. We introduced the cement production process, the use of alternative fuels, paying special attention to various aspects of environmental management and circular economy.

The guests were pleasantly surprised that the production of cement is a closed zero-residue process in which no waste or wastewater is generated.