{"id":3613,"date":"2022-01-06T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/company\/code-of-conduct\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:04:14","slug":"code-of-conduct","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/company\/code-of-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Code of Conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-custom-content-position is-position-top-left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"390\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-13669 size-full\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kodex-1.jpeg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kodex-1.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kodex-1-300x73.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kodex-1-1024x250.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kodex-1-768x187.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kodex-1-1536x374.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kodex-1-600x146.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#161320\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Company\/Code of Conduct<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Principles of the honorable merchant<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a company with social responsibility and an obligation to customers, suppliers and employees, it is important to find points of reference in a world that is constantly and rapidly changing.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, we have decided to establish and apply a code of conduct in accordance with applicable laws, standards and ethical conduct.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These principles, in the manner of an honorable merchant, determine our actions, decisions, and strategies for carrying out our work.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Principles<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We want to respect our moral and social obligations towards the people and countries with which we do business. We pursue clean and recognized business practices and fair competition. Corruption and bribery as defined in the relevant UN Convention 1, as well as unfair personal gain through exploitation of one&#8217;s position within the company, are out of the question for us.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environment &amp; Sustainability<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are aware of the responsibility that we as a manufacturing industrial company have towards our environment. That is why we will always pay attention to the protection of nature and the environment in the development, manufacture and disposal of our products and promote resource-saving handling. Occupational, health and environmental protection is an obligation for us.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Communication<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We strive for open and cooperative communication with all interlocutors such as employees, superiors, customers, suppliers or public authorities.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Data protection<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The information and experiences used in the company are not used in a damaging manner. We keep strict confidentiality about trade secrets and business information. Documents and data are stored properly.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Employee<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We respect the rights and dignity of every individual. Here, human rights and security are binding for us in accordance with the UN human rights charter. Motivated, satisfied and well-trained employees are the basis for successful products.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Suppliers<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our actions are based on economic cost aspects in order to remain competitive in the long term, whereby inexpensive production and services are applicable within the framework of our rules.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Customers<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The customer enables us to act economically through his purchasing decisions. We can only survive with our products and services as long as we meet their needs. We recognize the satisfaction of our customers as one of our most important quality criteria by working towards this goal.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quality<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our company stands for quality. We all want to do our jobs in the best possible way. Our products and work processes should always reflect the current state of the art, so that the quality concept is integrated from creation through implementation to delivery.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Questions?<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have any questions or suggestions about our products or services?<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then please contact us, we are happy to be there for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principles of the honorable merchant As a company with social responsibility and an obligation to customers, suppliers and employees, it is important to find points of reference in a world that is constantly and rapidly changing. Therefore, we have decided to establish and apply a code of conduct in accordance with applicable laws, standards and &#8230; <a title=\"Code of Conduct\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/company\/code-of-conduct\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Code of Conduct\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3469,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3613","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13686,"href":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3613\/revisions\/13686"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karl-wetzel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}