Social sustainability

Decent working conditions and a safe and secure working environment are important focus areas for Cell Impact. This area is essential as a positive force for sustainable economic growth and as a contribution to a sound business climate with a human perspective. Cell Impact implemented staff reductions due to the financial situation that began in 2023. This has been demanding for the company’s employees and has affected their well-being and perceived job security.

At the same time, the changes have had some positive effects. The internal flow of information is perceived as better, and new customers and exciting product development projects have provided opportunities for innovation and skills development.

Employees still reported a high level of job satisfaction and commitment in 2025, although the positive trends from 2024 were broken. While employees still enjoy their jobs, multiple years of cost savings and staff reductions are taking their toll.

Sickness absence and rehabilitation

During the year, Cell Impact had an average sickness absence of 6.8 percent, a deterioration compared to last year’s 5.2 percent. Those employed under a collective agreement had a higher rate of sickness absence than the company’s salaried employees.

To manage sickness absence, the company continued to provide rehabilitation meetings and support from occupational health services and has received rehabilitation support from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). Internally, during the year, Cell Impact developed clearer procedures for reporting sickness and better, more frequent rehabilitation meetings.

Diversity

During the expansive years of 2021 and 2022, Cell Impact made a conscious, strategic and competency-based effort to attract talent to the company. Until the redundancies in 2023, this contributed to diversity among employees in terms of gender, age, ethnicity and religion as well as educational and industry backgrounds.

As a consequence of the redundancies in 2023, 2024 and 2025, however, diversity has decreased. Despite this, the company has managed to maintain an even gender distribution with 60 percent women working in production, which is high compared with the manufacturing industry as a whole.

Expertise and training

Cell Impact operates in a changing industry. With its unique and extensive experience in manufacturing flow plates, Cell Impact is a center of knowledge in the industry. Expertise and training are therefore crucial, and skills development is a key strategic issue. To be successful, it is crucial for Cell Impact to have employees who are constantly learning and developing in their work.

Through periodic employee surveys, Cell Impact continuously monitors how employees perceive their learning experience. The positive trend we noted in 2023 and 2024 plateaued in 2025, likely due to periods of low production capacity.

At Cell Impact, employees are frequently engaged in cross-functional projects and support and assist with tasks beyond their regular roles. This is often perceived as stimulating and helps employees learn from each other. Cell Impact also ensures that the right information is delivered to the right person at the right time and conducts individual check-ins where knowledge, skills and learning are on the agenda.

Onboarding programs, internal training and competency matrices are other crucial elements in the company’s learning culture. Cell Impact uses these to monitor development and ensure that both new and experienced employees have the right conditions to grow in their roles.

Accidents and incidents

Cell Impact’s efforts to ensure a good work environment lay the foundation for a safe, health and developmental workplace. It is therefore important for the company to work systematically, always report incidents, identify risks and address areas of concern. Through safety rounds and an occupational health and safety committee, Cell Impact follows up on and analyzes accidents and incidents, especially within production where the risk of accidents and incidents is greatest.

Preventive initiatives involve systematic occupational health and safety initiatives where Cell Impact considers occupational health and safety aspects in all significant decisions related to the company’s operations. Cell Impact conducts risk assessments, for example, during the installation of new machinery, changes in processes and tasks or changes in personal conditions, leading to safer ways of working. We had no work-related accidents in the past year.

Through periodic employee surveys, all employees are engaged in occupational health and safety issues. In these, employees’ responses are transparent and can be reviewed in real-time by everyone within an anonymity threshold of three responses. The data is used to prioritize safety efforts and to raise everyone’s awareness regarding occupational health and safety issues.

According to the employee survey, perceived conflicts are at an all-time low among employees. We also have a good physical work environment despite some minor seasonal temperature problems at the premises.

A period of staff reductions

Unfortunately, the company’s difficulties in 2023 and 2024 were followed by further challenges in 2025. The past year was a somewhat uncertain one, with further operational changes and a reduction in the number of employees – some at the company’s initiative and others voluntarily. As a result, roles, responsibilities and the organization have been adjusted on several occasions – always with a focus on ensuring the that necessary expertise is in place and enabling sustainable and profitable operations.

Quarterly meetings were held with all employees and internal communication was transparent and open, thus strengthening the sense of cohesion and commitment within the company.