Sustainable operations

Driving sustainability in our operations

Our Sustainable Operations Program focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, improving the environmental and safety performance of our manufacturing facilities, and aims to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. We employ energy efficiency measures and renewable energy in our efforts to ensure a healthy future for generations to come. Since 2014, we’ve had multi-site certificates for ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. The ISO 14001 certificate is based on our environmental programs. The OHSAS 18001 certificate covers safety programs where more preventive measures will create a safer and healthier workplace for our employees. The foundation for these programs is based on legal compliance requirements. We set even higher performance requirements in our policies.

Increasing the environmental performance of our operations

In our Brighter Lives, Better World program, reduction of CO₂ emissions and energy use are central to our 2020 commitments. Through substantial efforts in various departments, we achieved carbon neutrality in our operations in 2020. We also have programs in place to reduce our operational waste and our water usage. We have targets to eliminate any waste to landfill from our manufacturing sites by the end of 2020 and to yearly reduce our water usage by 5%.

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We strive for an injury-free, illness-free work environment, with an emphasis on an injury-prevention mindset.

The health and safety of our employees is a top priority. We care for our people – each employee, contractor and visitor has the right to a safe working environment.Through consistent effort, accidents and occupational illnesses can be prevented and we believe that everyone within our organization shares responsibility for achieving a world-class level in occupational health and safety performance.

We strive for an injury-free, illness-free work environment, with an emphasis on an injury-prevention mindset.

Our renewable energy journey

As we want to continue leading the change and make our operations future proof, we are committed to switching from fossil-fuel based energy to renewable energy.

We joined the Climate Group’s EV100 Initiative in 2018 and committed to operate a lease fleet of hybrid and fully electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030.

We have also committed to source 100% of our electricity from renewable sources in 2020 globally and we are a member of RE100. We invested in Power Purchase Agreements in the US and in Poland to ensure our operations in these countries are powered by renewable electricity.

Watch the video announcing our VPPA in Poland.

Health & Safety

The health and safety of our employees is a top priority. We care for our people – each employee, contractor and visitor has the right to a safe working environment.Through consistent effort, accidents and occupational illnesses can be prevented and we believe that everyone within our organization shares responsibility for achieving a world-class level in occupational health and safety performance. We strive for an injury-free, illness-free work environment, with an emphasis on an injury-prevention mindset.

We strive for an injury-free, illness-free work environment, with an emphasis on an injury-prevention mindset.

The health and safety of our employees is a top priority. We care for our people – each employee, contractor and visitor has the right to a safe working environment.Through consistent effort, accidents and occupational illnesses can be prevented and we believe that everyone within our organization shares responsibility for achieving a world-class level in occupational health and safety performance.

We strive for an injury-free, illness-free work environment, with an emphasis on an injury-prevention mindset.

Driving sustainability in our operations

Increasing the environmental performance of our operations

Our renewable energy journey

Health & Safety

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Carbon neutral infographics

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