TRESPA AND SUSTAINABILITY
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SUSTAINABILITY INSIDE
Our sustainability policy is based on a deeply felt motivation to shift from ‘being less bad’ for the environment to being good and creating new value.
Do No Harm. We comply with safety, product and sustainability regulations and guidelines set by the countries in which we operate. We are focused on materializing opportunities that minimize the environmental impact of our operations and products.
Do Good. We support our suppliers and customers in meeting their sustainability challenges. The environmental properties of Trespa® products are mentioned in the EPDs available to the market. We will continue to look for opportunities and initiatives to support and promote longer-term sustainability beyond the direct scope of our current operations.
Do Better. We believe that investing in sustainability should be beneficial to the long-term position of the company. Many sustainability challenges constitute good business opportunities that will allow the company to continue to grow.
WHAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR
Our learnings and progresses. Over the past years, we’ve embraced a sustainable approach by measuring and improving our environmental impacts. Since our journey towards sustainability started in 2010, we put in place several improvements aimed at reducing onsite energy consumption and waste generation, including: replacing high-energy-consuming electric motors, converting to low-energy-consuming LED lighting and linking it to detection sensors in infrequently visited areas, replacing high-energy-consuming vacuum pumps in the press department with a more efficient Venturi system, and adopting a more efficient steam boiler.
Contribution analysis. Each step of production contributes to a different extent to the total environmental impact of our laminates. The picture below shows the contribution of the main manufacturing stages (as a percentage over the total materials production’s impact). Such contribution is in turn split (pie charts) into the share attributable to the production process itself (the energy and water consumed, waste produced and emissions generated onsite) and the one due to the materials used.
SUSTAINABILITY ROAD MAP
Lifetime extension: the Trespa Second Life program. In light of the environmental benefits arising from lifetime extension, we launched the Trespa Second Life program, in which Trespa® Meteon® exterior panels are collected and given a second life after dismantling instead of being disposed of.
Cradle-to-gate targets. Over the next five years, we plan to implement a series of activities and projects to reduce our environmental impact (compared to the 2015 results) as follows:
- Global warming: 8%
- Primary energy demand: 4%
- Water footprint: 5%
Engaging our stakeholders. We aim to encourage our stakeholders to embrace a consistent approach to sustainability. Trainings and regular updates will be given to our top management, R&D team, production coordinators and sales department. Our sustainability philosophy and approach will be explained to every new employee coming aboard.
Improving our LCA model. Data quality is at the forefront of our priorities. In the next five years, we aim to get data from our paper and chemicals suppliers. At the same time, we will put continuous efforts into increasing the accuracy of data collected in our plant.
Cradle-to-gate impact reduction. We are putting a lot of effort into reducing the amount of energy required to produce our laminates, aiming at decreasing the consumption of natural gas by 20% over the next five years by carefully optimizing the HPL manufacturing process. In order for that to happen, a thorough energy monitoring plan is being put in place across all production departments.
Furthermore, we will increase the use of wood chips in place of the more energy-consuming paper, affecting – and lowering – the impact associated with raw materials production.
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