Sustainability Report 2022

Resilient by nature

At ROCKWOOL, we transform volcanic rock into stone wool to make
products that contribute to addressing many of society’s biggest climate
change challenges, creating new opportunities to enrich modern living
and build safer, healthier, and more climate resilient communities.
Indeed, stone wool is a versatile natural material with multiple benefits
that makes it ideal for applications in buildings, industry, transportation,
horticulture, and water management.

In this report, you will learn how ROCKWOOL’s products can support
communities to adapt and build resilience to climate change impacts
and how we reduce the environmental impact in our production and
value chain.

In 2022 we fulfilled our sustainability goals one year early. Download our 2022 Sustainability report to learn more.

ROCKWOOL's products enrich modern living

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Making progress

In our 2022 Sustainability Report you can read about our achievements, our progress against our goals and the new initiatives that we are taking to increase our positive impact.

Creating impact

In 2022, having deeply renovated an additional nine offices, we met our energy efficiency in owned offices intermediate goal. This means that we have fulfilled all five intermediate sustainability goals with baseline 2015. We improved the CO2 intensity of our factories by 17 percent and offered the Rockcycle® reclaimed materials service to our customers in a total of 19 countries by adding two new countries, Finland and Romania.

Decarbonising

Improved our average global carbon intensity by 17 percent. One of the most important ways in which we are decarbonising our business is by transitioning from coal and coke to less carbon-intensive fuels. The impact of these efforts will continue growing over the coming years. Most recently, our newly opened factory in Qingyuan, China started operations using electric melting technology, which we expect will reduce annual CO2 emissions by more than 60 percent compared to the decommissioned factory it replaces.

Leading by example

In 2022, we continued to improve the energy efficiency of all our owned, non-renovated offices by 35 percent. By completing nine renovations globally during 2022, we are progressing well towards achieving our 2030 goal of 75 percent energy efficiency improvement. One of these buildings was Nordics headquarter office in Hedehusene, Denmark. The building renovation has also been recognised by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) by awarding the building with a Gold certificate. The project reduced the office's primary energy demand by 64 percent and a CO2 reduction of 47% compared to new build.

Enhanced acoustics

Students benefited from better learning environments with Rockfon acoustic solutions in 2022

Water saved

million litres of water saved by greenhouse growing products sold in 2022

Employment created

Jobs were created locally at our stone wool-producing facilities worldwide and with suppliers in 2022

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Energy Efficiency E-learning

E-learning: The importance of energy efficiency in buildings

Did you know that buildings play an important role in reducing the environmental footprint of a growing population? Understand how through our e-learning program. Sign up now!

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Local Communities & Engagement

We developed a new methodology to monitor the jobs and the economic value that we create directly or indirectly; and the socio-economic value of the energy our products save.

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