At ROCKWOOL, we transform volcanic rock into stone wool and our products contribute to address 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.
At ROCKWOOL, we’re dedicated to enriching modern living. We strive to increase our positive impact on people and society by maximising the positive impact our products make, otherwise known as our handprint, and by minimising our operational impact, also referred to as our footprint. We recognise that operating with integrity and as a responsible business is equally important and underpins everything we do. Our approach to sustainability is based on three principles covering both our handprint and footprint:
Our preferred approach is to reduce energy and resource consumption – by minimizing our own carbon emissions in production and maximizing the saved energy and carbon through the use of our products.
Improving energy efficiency to ultimately use less energy is a critical step towards reaching carbon neutrality. By saving energy, we reduce the overall energy system’s capacity needs, contributing to a quicker and more cost-effective transition to renewable energy sources. As we like to say, let’s use less and green the rest.
By constantly innovating and always staying one step ahead we help address many climate-related hazards, such as fires, flooding, asset risks, and fossil fuel dependency.
Our business strategy is driven by a passion for converting sustainable development challenges into business opportunities, through innovative products, solutions and partnerships. Our six sustainability goals reflect the key material issues within our operations to drive improvements in our safety and environmental performance, and are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Understand how sustainability drives our business
We believe that by decarbonising our business and value chain, we can reinforce the fact that we’re a net carbon negative company. That’s why we signed up to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) in 2020. This involved committing to a verified and approved plan for an ambitious one-third reduction of our lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions by 2034, using 2019 as the baseline.
As the global population continues to grow, our cities will need to accommodate more people in a safe and healthy way. The buildings that we spend time in affect our health, wellbeing and productivity – and considering we spend nearly 90 percent of our time indoors, a healthy indoor environment is very important. Stone wool products can meet some of the challenges that come with city living. From noise pollution to fire safety, ROCKWOOL products can help create the optimal indoor environment while enhancing fire resilience.
By 2050, the earth’s population is predicted to be 9 billion – and 80 percent of all food will be consumed in cities. This growing urban population will need access to healthy and nutritious food. In places where agricultural land is scarce, new and innovative forms of food production hold the key to feeding city dwelling populations. Our Grodan hydroponic products enable food production in urban settings using fewer natural resources.
To meet the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal of keeping the temperature rise well below 2°C, we need to act now
We make the most significant positive impact on sustainable development through the use of our products. The products that we create not only improve the health and wellbeing of citizens but they also equip them with solutions to combat climate change. In collaboration with different partners and organisations, we develop methodologies to measure and quantify our impact, so that we can measure our progress against the Sustainable Development Goals.
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