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.
ROCKWOOL is a net carbon negative company. Our stone wool building insulation save more than 100 times the energy consumed and CO2 emitted in its production in its lifetime of over 65 year.
Saving energy and reducing emissions create a significant positive impact, helping communities and society at large to build greater climate change resilience. Independent external assessments back this up. For example, Trucost, part of Standard & Poor’s Global, has classified all our products as being SDG positive, meaning they have been assessed as having a positive impact on achieving the UN SDGs.
Sustainability is central to our business strategy. Our aim is to turn sustainable development challenges into business opportunities, creating innovative products that address some of modern society’s pressing challenges
At the foundation of ROCKWOOL Group's initiatives are the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). We have used our commitments to 11 out of 17 SDGs as a compass to steer our ambitions within sustainability since 2016.
Energy efficiency in the built environment is a triple win - socially, economically and environmentally.
Discover how our Group Sustainability Report provides a holistic view of how ROCKWOOL's products can support communities and increase our positive impact through new initiatives while reducing our negative environmental impact.
Collaboration is key to our sustainability work. To name a few:
The Wageningen University & Research
In 2017, ROCKWOOL partnered with the Wageningen University & Research, specialising in life science, to develop a methodology on a quantitative comparison between soil based cultivation systems and stone wool systems.
One Ocean Foundation
In 2022, ROCKWOOL has joined forces with One Ocean Foundation in a multi-year global scientific partnership focused on accelerating solutions to protect and regenerate our ocean.
ROCKWOOL Denmark SailGP team collaborates with One Ocean Foundation with the objective to analyse, track and reduce the carbon and plastic footprint of team operations as part of SailGP’s Impact League initiative.
Circular Economy
Supported by Circle Economy Consulting, ROCKWOOL has developed a set of circularity KPIs to not only support disclosure in relation to CSRD and the EU Taxonomy, but also to help drive the transition along every step of the value chain. Circle Economy Consulting has developed an indicator dashboard for ROCKWOOL to measure its efforts against applying to different steps of the value chain: Circular materials, Circular use and Circular end-of-life.
