Hankook Tire & Technology has published its 16th ESG Report, covering 2024-25. The 90-page document maps progress against climate, human-rights and circular-economy goals, and aligns with the EU’s ESRS framework plus the emerging TNFD guidelines. It highlights eight priority issues, the mass-production of tyres made from 77 % sustainable materials and new governance steps to hard-wire ESG into board oversight.
Hankook’s latest ESG Report applies the EU’s double-materiality lens, weighing both how sustainability factors affect the business and how the business affects people and planet. The company has strengthened biodiversity and supply-chain disclosures in line with TNFD, and set up a cross-functional committee to prepare for the EU Deforestation Regulation.
Eight focus areas
In 2024 Hankook, Hyosung Advanced Materials and SK Chemicals commercialised Korea’s first tyre using chemically recycled PET cord. The tyre maker has since:
The Board-level ESG Committee, active since 2021, now oversees performance targets and links them to executive remuneration. Internal board evaluations introduced in 2023 are intended to “reinforce independent oversight and sharpen sustainability expertise,” a company spokesperson said [Statement paraphrased – no direct quote available].
Hankook’s move mirrors Michelin’s first CSRD-aligned sustainability report, published in May 2025, signalling that transparent ESG data is now table-stakes for global tyre brands.
Hankook plans to publish baseline-verified Scope 3 emissions data in 2026 and to pilot traceability tech for its natural-rubber supply chain. The full 2024-25 report can be downloaded from Hankook’s global ESG page
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