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Sustainable Business

Read About Our Sustainability Report 2023

Building a climate resilient future

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.

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 (handprint) while reducing our negative environmental impact of our operations (footprint).

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Sustainability Report 2023

ROCKWOOL is committed to transparency and to reporting accurate and reliable information. Every year we publish our Sustainability reports to communicate with our stakeholders.

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…meeting the needs of the world today without compromising the future of the planet…

Jens Birgersson

CEO, ROCKWOOL Group

Sustainability goals

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.

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Sustainability Impact

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. 

 

The UN SDGs drive our sustainability work

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.

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SDG Overview

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Product Transparency

We consider it our responsibility to provide transparent material ingredient reporting, helping the specifier make product choices for the health and safety of building occupants in respect of Indoor Environmental Quality. By providing Health Product Declarations (HPDs), we want to ensure we are making the task of architects, designers and specifiers as straightforward as possible when selecting building materials.

HPDs Explained
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Healthy Living Environment

The Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) inside the spaces where we learn, work, heal, eat, shop and play should not make us sick. Ideally, they should keep us healthy. In working toward this goal, more building owners and occupants are following LEED, WELL and other green building guidelines that embrace health and wellness for both people and the planet.

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2022 Sustainability Report

Sustainability Report

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.

Our partners and collaborations

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.

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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.

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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.

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LEED

Are you interested in getting your building LEED certified? Find out how Rockfon products can help you earn credits toward your LEED certification.

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Sustainability certification schemes

Do you want to have your building WELL Certified? Then choose Rockfon

Rockfon acoustic ceiling and wall solutions can give you WELL credits, helping you get your building or project WELL certified by the IWBI.

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Health Product Declarations Explained

A health product declaration allows manufacturers to disclose the contents of building materials in a transparent way. Find out more with Rockfon.

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Rachel Berkin

Sustainability Expert, Rockfon

Have questions related to Rockfon sustainability or meeting green building standards with your next project?
Get in touch with us today!

Rachel.berkin@rockfon.com

A Partner for Every Project

The right ceiling for your space contributes to a thriving and healthy environment for years to come, and Rockfon has a ceiling solution for every environment. Talk to one of our experts today.

We provide customers with a complete acoustic ceiling system offering, combining sound absorbing ceiling tiles and specialty metal panels with suspension grid systems and accessories.

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