Our Germantown and Hilden sites are powered by 100% renewable energy. In 2023, our Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) purchased in 2022 remained valid for Hilden and Germantown. In addition to renewable energy certificates, the solar panels on the roof at our manufacturing site in Hilden produced 58 MWh in 2023 for our own operations and reduced our reliance on the electricity grid.
In 2023, our employees completed courses covering anti-harassment and discrimination, prevention of corruption and bribery, and business ethics. All employees were also obliged to take cyber security trainings. The majority of our management was obliged to take master data governance trainings, with this course offering extended to all new employees as well.
In 2018, we started our strategic initiative on gender diversity with a focus on improving the number of women in management. The participation of women in management roles increased from approximately 28% in 2018 to 36% in 2023 (2022: 35%). This was achieved because of strategic initiatives to drive awareness, engagement and development of better gender representation among our management team. We continue to work towards gender parity, and it is our goal to achieve at least 40% of women by 2027.
Our QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) remains one of the most widely used tests for the detection of Tuberculosis with over 100 million tests distributed to over 130 countries around the world. We work closely with the World Health Organization, Stop TB Partnership Private Sector Constituency, and many other organizations involved in the fight to eliminate this deadly disease and raise awareness on the importance of TB infection testing in order to reach global elimination targets
We have achieved Scope 1 & 2 emission reductions in line with our SBTi goal through our green electricity strategy and are accelerating key projects to meet our SBTi targets in the coming years.
Our carbon emissions targets have now been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), endorsing our ambition to honor the Paris Agreement’s climate goals. Our commitment is to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) across the value chain by 2050 from a 2020 base year. We also commit to reducing absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 42% by 2030, and to reducing our absolute Scope 3 GHG emissions from business travel, use of sold products, and end-of-life treatment of sold products by 25% within the same timeframe.