Building Sustainability into Everything We Do

As an industry leading contributor to the built environment, our sights are firmly set on leading our industry in sustainability by 2025. We’re backing this up with real investment, real action, real outcomes and real leadership and working with our customers, users and suppliers – to achieve Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2050. Our focus is to build healthier, more sustainable environments for all.

    Our Sustainability Journey is well and truly underway at Wavin.

    Making the Sustainable, Attainable

    Sustainable thinking is good. Sustainable action is better. Better for the communities that we live in. Better for the planet that we share.

    As a market leading contributor to the built environment, our sights are firmly set on leading our industry in sustainability by 2025. We’re backing this ambition with real investment, real action, real outcomes and real leadership. Ultimately, our goal is to achieve Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2050.

    Working with our customers, users and suppliers, we’ll design out carbon from every product and process that we’re responsible for. Our focus throughout will be to build healthier, more sustainable environments for all.

    Let’s work together to help build a better future for generations to come. 

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    Sustainable Packaging
    Sustainability is central to our packaging approach. We are committed to removing virgin plastic, with most packaging already containing 30% recycled content. We continue to explore innovative solutions, focusing on reuse, material changes, and size reduction to improve efficiency and lower carbon impact.
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    Innovation
    We develop innovative solutions for safe, sustainable water use, supporting vulnerable communities and helping customers address climate challenges. By improving access to clean water and building healthier, future-proof environments, we help mitigate the impacts of climate change and water scarcity worldwide.

    Circular Economy

    Our materials and products are designed to be reused and recycled to maximise environmental value. To close the material loop, we continuously improve our procurement processes and contribute to the increase of recyclate usage. 

    Limited natural resources and climate change are important drivers of the circular economy. A circular economy preferably starts at the very beginning of a product’s life cycle. Wavin has been an early adaptor in using recyclate (internal and post-consumer/producer waste) in its products. Our materials and products are designed to be reused and recycled to maximize environmental and financial value. Circularity is a broad concept which does not only include product reuse or lifetime extension. Next to a focus on increasing recyclate usage and improving the rate of recyclability of our products, we will continuously improve our procurement processes.

    25%Global Recyclate Usage
    90%Recylability of Products
    100%Zero Waste to Landfill

    Our Environmental Impact

    We continuously optimise our production and value chain processes to lower greenhouse gas emissions. This is achieved with sustainable energy, SMART solutions, and other innovative fine tunings.

    As an international company, with production facilities in over 40 countries, Wavin is fully aware of its environmental impact. Not only the effect our actions have but also the footprint of our customers and suppliers in the value chain. By monitoring and measuring emissions, Wavin can perfectly assess which improvements or changes can and should be made. Goal setting helps Wavin to steer towards lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the production process and to further fine-tune innovative processes and support the right decisions going forward. Wavin is taking broad measures to reduce GHG emissions and increase energy efficiency by, for example, installing LED lighting at production sites, by using more efficient machines or reorganizing production lines. Besides our concrete goals, we also work on increasing the number of sites, using 100% electricity from renewable sources.

    15%Increase the production of sustainable enegry to our facilities worldwide.
    100%Create a 100% sustainable car fleet in 2025, starting the EMEA’s implementation in 2021