In 2024, we continued to provide maintenance and repair services for our hearing aids, both at our hearing clinics and at our service facilities. By ensuring the proper maintenance of our hearing aids or by repairing those that need it, we aim to prolong our users’ use of our hearing aids. Maintenance and repair services are available worldwide for all hearing aid models and all brands for up to five years after the model has been discontinued. In 2024, we provided over 1,500,000 repair services in our service facilities. To maximise the lifetime of our products, we offer maintenance services to our customers to ensure that normal wear and tear does not affect the usability or quality of our devices. This service, which also includes the recalibration of our devices, is usually carried out at the customer’s location or at local in-house workshops. If required, we also offer repair service, which we provide worldwide. We guarantee to have spare parts available for up to seven years from the purchase date of our instruments to ensure that whatever issue the device is experiencing, it can be fixed.

In 2024, the resource inflow decreased by 1,572 tonnes compared to 2023, mainly due to reduced purchases of plastic by our Diagnostics business area in 2024. The percentage of biological materials used in manufacturing in 2024 is 12.1%, and reused or recycled materials used in manufacturing and packaging is 1.62%.