Integrity, Accountability & Responsible Business
North Star is building a more systematic governance framework to support compliance, ethical business conduct, information security and accountability across its operations and value chain.
2025 governance progress — Business Ethics Policy and Data and Information Security Policy issued, strengthening expectations for lawful and responsible conduct.
OUR APPROACH
Good governance turns principles into everyday decisions.
North Star’s governance approach combines legal compliance, ethical conduct, clear responsibilities and management-system implementation. In 2025, the company strengthened this foundation through new policies covering ethics, information security, procurement, human resources and environmental management.
Integrity & Compliance
Accountability
Responsible Information
Measure conduct. Strengthen confidence.
The 2025 Annual Sustainability Report establishes initial governance indicators covering ethics training, reporting incidents and information security. These indicators provide a baseline for continued improvement.
BUSINESS ETHICS TRAINING SESSION
ETHICS FRAMEWORK
The standards behind responsible business conduct.
The Business Ethics Policy sets expectations for employees, management, contractors, suppliers and other business partners.
Ethics & Compliance
Clear standards for legal compliance, fair competition, and responsible business conduct.
Anti-Corruption & Fair
Zero tolerance for bribery, corruption, and unfair business practices.
Data & Information
Protecting customer information, technical documents, and sensitive business data.
Reporting & Oversight
Encouraging confidential reporting and responsible investigation of potential violations
Continuous Improvement
Strengthening ethics training, internal controls, and supplier accountability.
From governance principles to a formal policy framework.
Six new internal policies
Environmental Policy, Business Ethics Policy, Data and Information Security Policy, Sustainable Procurement Policy, Supplier Code of Conduct and Human Resources Policy.
The framework establishes expectations across ethics, information security, procurement, people management and environmental responsibility.
Environmental progress
Measure. Improve. Build for the long term.
Protect information. Speak up when something is wrong.
Information security breach incidents
WHAT COMES NEXT
Strengthening ethics, accountability and transparency.
North Star’s next stage is focused on improving policy implementation, internal reporting, information-security controls and the consistency of governance-related data and training.