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Our Priorities

Supporting every colleague to be themselves to better serve our customers and communities.

Doing the right thing in a complex world

All employees, suppliers and contractors must comply with our Code of Ethics, conducting business with integrity and in a responsible, ethical and sustainable manner.

Ethics and compliance

Latest Sustainability News

The transition to environmentally sustainable production

The transition to environmentally sustainable production

The transition to environmentally sustainable production: a roadmap timeline methodology

In this paper, a high-level methodology for the transition to environmentally sustainable practices in the manufacturing industry is developed. The methodology presented in this paper is at the conceptual level and is developed to be applicable to a wide array of industrial settings.

Read the paper online

Sustainable products

Sustainable products

 

Helping our customers address climate change.

We continue to invest a significant proportion of our R&D spend each year on enhancing fuel efficiency and reducing emissions within aircraft, leveraging publicly available funding to support climate-related R&D, such as Clean Sky in Europe.

 

Safe and sustainable products at GKN Aerospace

Our Voices

Our success in numbers
80%
of employees have completed ethics training
+250
apprenticeships awarded in 2020
18,494
tonnes of waste recycled in 2020
£32m
investment in global technology centre in Bristol
853
of employees trained on Lean capabilities in 2020
13,437
ventilators provided to the NHS through VentilatorChallengeUK

Committed to sustainability

Committed to sustainability
GKN Aerospace has teamed up with Olympic champion Nils van der Poel, a strong advocate for social and environmental responsibility, in our latest video.
 
Nils van der Poel is a proven champion with strong dedication to reach his goals, similar to the way we are committed to make a step change in industry sustainability.
 
"I am very proud and flattered to be a GKN Aerospace ambassador. It is an innovative company with a strong industrial heritage and technical know-how committed to invest in a sustainable future of flight. To fly more sustainably in the future affects us all and I am proud to represent that journey." says Nils.

 

View the video here

Things we're proud of

GKN Aerospace has been recognised with the Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award by the UK MoD
GKN Aerospace has been recognised with the Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award by the UK MoD
GKN Aerospace has been recognised with the Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award by the UK MoD
Where Women Work
Where Women Work
Where Women Work
Ventilator Challenge UK consortium has been awarded the Special Award for Design
Ventilator Challenge UK consortium has been awarded the Special Award for Design
Our Filton and Western Approach UK sites  were named Large Employer of the Year at Bristol and Bath Apprentice 2020 awards
Our Filton and Western Approach UK sites were named Large Employer of the Year at Bristol and Bath Apprentice 2020 awards
Outstanding
Outstanding