Our Purpose

Advancing life around the world by Building Healthy Sustainable Environments

Our world is changing at lightning speed. It’s time for us to change with it.

Our unifying purpose – Building Healthy, Sustainable Environments – it is at the core of  how we take action and how we want to make a positive impact. The purpose illustrates  our commitment to build on the strengths of our business and make a real difference  where we can. We know and accept our role in solving some of the world’s global  challenges: growing population, changing climate, shortage and abundance of water.

As part of Orbia, we are contributing to advance life around the world together with a  community of inspiring companies. It’s because of our strong network, we have the  power to do more.

For all at Wavin it’s time to stand up, speak up and inspire. Building healthy, sustainable environments is our calling, our promise – and our purpose.

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We take action through our four drivers:

  • Safe And Efficient Water Supply
  • Better Sanitation And Hygiene
  • Climate Resilient Cities
  • Better Building Performance

Safe and efficient water supply

Future generations face a 40% gap between their water supply and demand. See how Wavin and other experts are working to provide safe drinking water for future generations.

Better sanitation and hygiene

Our cities need long-lasting solutions for sanitation with fewer leaks, less clogging and better health-risk monitoring. Find out how Wavin is working to improve sanitation systems world-wide.

Climate resilient cities

We can store and reuse rainwater to keep our cities green in dry periods with intelligent solutions. Learn how Wavin and other specialists are making cities climate-resilient.

Better building performance

Today’s buildings fail to deliver on their expected performance. See how we create efficient, intelligent, lasting solutions for buildings and for living.

Social challenges

Cities all over the world are continuing to grow: United Nations research shows that by 2030 more than 70% of the world's population will live in major cities. Urbanisation poses challenges in terms of sustainable construction, safe and efficient water supply, sanitation and the disposal of rainwater and wastewater. Climate change means that cities are also having to deal with increasingly long periods of drought or flooding. Far- reaching measures are needed to address these problems.

Keeping cities livable & loveable

Our cities are struggling with major challenges: our drinking water supply, our sanitation system, climate resilience and the performance of our buildings. Here is what our city has to say...

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Wavin has an impressive history in the field of water management. The company was  founded in 1955 to modernise the water network in the Netherlands. In the following  decades, it grew to become the European and Latin American market leader. Today, it is known as a global brand for its innovative solutions in building and infrastructure.   With its new purpose, building healthy, sustainable environments, Wavin is committing itself to the further development of products that can keep cities livable and loveable in  the future. And how? By taking action on the 4 purpose drivers for Wavin: safe and  efficient water supply, better sanitation and hygiene, climate resilient cities and better building performance.