B Impact Report

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Tonka SA

Safety and control devices for household gas appliances
Certified Since: August, 2014
Location: San Fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sector: Manufacturing

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

90.3

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

www.tonkasa.com.ar

Tonka SA is a family owned company with 80 employees. They are an Argentine metallurgical company that develops and fabricates gas controls for household gas appliances. Innovation is a way of living for them. The company started 46 years ago with an innovation and Tonka SA has been doing so for all these years. They design and create security and control devices for instant water heaters, stoves, heaters and many other appliances.

Due to existing public policies, fossil energies have been very cheap for the last decades. For this reason there is no culture for the rational use of these natural resources. In the last year, conditions changed and natural gas became very expensive due to importations at international prices.

With Tonka SAÕs innovation policies and strong research and development position, their company supplies the local industry with the necessary products needed to save gas and promote the essential use of it. Tonka SA deals with energy. They hope to help society use it well in order to save natural resources. Environment and society needs to be taken into consideration when providing the industry that creates gas appliances. Tonka SAÕs mission as a company is not only oriented around saving energy, but also seeking to promote the common good within society.

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info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

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The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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