Corporate Social Responsibility

Community Involvement

At Orthofix, we don’t just make a difference in the lives of patients and their families. We strive to directly impact our communities around the world through employee volunteer programs, charitable contributions, and meaningful partnerships. We support a variety of charitable organizations through donations, fundraising efforts, educational partnerships with colleges and universities, and local community development. Over the years, we have raised funds and awareness for veteran support groups, food and homebuilding organizations, and health-related institutions and organizations such as the Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Red Cross, Trusted World, Carter BloodCare, Toys for Tots.  Veterans Coalition of North Central Texas and Soldiers’ Angels.

Orthofix is also proud to support the World Pediatric Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to healing critically ill children in impoverished countries. Through the donation of our Spine Fixation deformity correction devices, surgeons are able to perform corrective surgery for young adult and pediatric patients in Honduras, enabling them to lead more normal lives. In 2020, we initiated a global food drive in response to food shortages caused by the pandemic. Through employee donations of volunteer time and funds and Company matching funds, we provided meaningful support to 20 food banks around the world.

Orthofix also conducts an annual month-long awareness and fundraising campaign with our employees and business partners to benefit Donate Life America, a nonprofit organization that promotes the importance of organ, eye, and tissue donation.

Additionally, we have an ongoing engineering partnership with the University of Texas at Dallas, enabling students to work on real life healthcare solutions as we invest in the next generation of engineers and business leaders.

In 2019 and 2020 we estimate that our employees gave more than 350  hours in support of our community service projects. We positively impacted our communities and had a terrific time together while making a difference in countless lives.

At Orthofix, we are proud of our employees and their generosity. Our commitment to community support is aligned with applicable local laws and regulations and with the medical technology industries’ ethical standards.

Funding decisions are based on the principles of transparency, documentation, and segregation of duties and donations to health care-related organizations fall under the responsibility of the Orthofix Grants Committee, which is composed of non-sales company functions. For information on the application process, please email Grants@Orthofix.com.

Environmental Responsibility

From an active corporate office waste recycling program to developing environmentally responsible medical instruments and packaging, Orthofix is working to continually reduce its environmental impact.

We embed the principles of advancing a circular economy into our practices globally through our facility and manufacturing initiatives that include an in-office recycling program including recycle/reuse practices and a commitment to eliminate Styrofoam. Additionally, our facilities have energy efficient HVAC systems and we transitioned our Lewisville, Texas location to 100 percent sustainable energy in March 2020.

We are committed to transitioning to lower carbon operations. We have begun to explore a decrease in our carbon footprint for the manufacturing and supply of our surgical instruments via single-use sterile packed instruments. In 2020, we launched a partnership with Neo Medical to distribute single-use sterile packed instrumentation for certain spine surgeries and develop single-use solutions for other procedures. These single-use sterile packed instruments eliminate the high carbon cost of repeated shipping and sterilization, cutting the carbon footprint and improving the spinal surgery ecosystem with value-based care and sustainable technology solutions.

We recently launched a recycling program for our patients using Bone Growth Therapy devices. We are proud to be the first and only company in the U.S. to offer a free recycling program so patients can properly dispose of their Bone Growth Therapy devices after use. The innovative program enables Orthofix patients to recycle their devices for non-medical use once they complete treatment. Visit bonegrowththerapy.com to learn more about this groundbreaking new program.

Through the Orthofix Academy medical education training platform, we support Treedom, a project that develops cacao forests to improve food safety for rural populations, increases local agricultural resources and offers additional income opportunities to people living and working in Cameroon.

We are committed to sustainable practices in our operations, manufacturing, and supply chain through the use of sustainable energy, waste reduction, and waste and equipment recycling.

Governance

It is our fundamental policy to conduct business in accordance with the highest ethical and legal standards. We have a comprehensive compliance and ethics program to promote lawful and ethical business practices throughout our domestic and international businesses and we require compliance training amongst all of our employees. Similarly, we require that our suppliers adopt sound human rights practices designed to treat workers fairly and with dignity and respect. We responsibly manage and influence the impacts of our distributors through our robust compliance and governance training. Orthofix is a proud supporter of the following global industry groups that promote ethical business interactions and adheres to each organization’s code of conduct.

Safety and Quality

The safety of our patients is of utmost importance. Our commitment and focus on product quality and safety is evidenced with investments across the organization in quality systems and medical device regulation compliance. This topic is also the foundation of our Quality Driven policy, which is to improve patients’ lives through high-quality products, procedures, and services. We are committed to executing an effective quality management system that meets or exceeds global requirements. This focus has resulted in zero product recalls issued in 2021. 

To further promote this effort, we introduced an ESG metric beginning in 2022 that ties a portion of the 2022 annual bonus plan to achieving predetermined safety and quality objectives. These ESG performance goals were introduced to continue holding our team to our commitment that stakeholders must be considered in our actions every day.