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RAFI – GET IN TOUCH 5

Dear readers,

RAFI has grown to become an international high-tech company with more than 100 years of
history. Naturally, we have our founder Ernst Bucher to thank for this, but also all the people
who have made a valuable contribution since 1900 in Berg and all our other locations. Through
our joint work, we have developed many innovations that have significantly advanced our
company and the industry itself. Whether key switches, complex HMI systems, or EMS solu-
tions – again and again RAFI has succeeded in defining new benchmarks while living up to its
responsibility for our own products and projects as well as for the environment and society.

Sustainability has always been an essential component of our corporate culture at RAFI. A
high degree of in-house production, an extraordinarily broad industry diversification of our cus-
tomer portfolio, and the high level of commitment exhibited by our employees have helped to
ensure that our employees have secure and reliable jobs and that our customers can depend
on us to deliver, even in the midst of the current crises.

Our sustainability activities are firmly anchored in our organizational and management sys-
tems.

In 2021, we launched our “Responsibility” initiative, which defines our commitment to sus-
tainability in the RAFI Group. What we mean by responsibility is that our corporate activities
have a positive impact not only on our business, but also on our ecological and social environ-
ment.

We ensure conscientious use of resources, environmental and climate protection, good
working conditions, occupational health and safety, and respect for human rights along the
entire value chain.

That’s why we are delighted to have received the silver medal award from Ecovadis for our
efforts in this area.

In this report we want to inform you about the development of our sustainability initiatives
in the RAFI Group, which follow the spirit and letter of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).

We hope you are inspired by its contents to join with us in making the world more sustain-
able! We look forward to receiving your feedback.

Dr. Lothar Seybold Lothar Arnold
CEO CFO