

Our sustainability goal to Achieve Zero Carbon focuses on minimising both the impact of our products and our plants. We’ve achieved a great deal in the past decade, but we now need to be more ambitious.
Knauf Insulation has always been in the business of saving energy and reducing carbon emissions in buildings. Today one unit of energy used to manufacture a typical Glass Mineral Wool product saves 570 units over its 50-year-use phase.
And clearly this has a long-term positive environmental impact. We estimate that since 2009 we have produced enough Mineral Wool to save a whole year of CO2 emissions in Belgium.
But, of course, it is not enough. Over the past decade we have worked hard to tackle our own emissions as well. Since 2010, using cleaner technology, better processes and teamwork we have reduced our emissions and energy use by 23%.
We now need to be more ambitious. Our new sustainability vision For A Better World makes this ambition clear — Achieve Zero Carbon.
You can read about our long-term commitments here and how they support the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, but our most urgent priority is achieving the short-term concrete targets we set ourselves for 2025.
By this deadline we will have reduced our organisational carbon footprint by 25%, invested 10% of our general capital expenditure in new projects to cut emissions and/or landfill waste and reduced embodied carbon in our products by 15%.
Our ambitions to reduce carbon will mean forensically examining every stage of our processes including how we source raw material, our manufacturing processes, packaging and distribution. Effectively, it will mean a fundamental change in the way we do everything and we are very excited about what the future holds.
The lessons we have learned over the years will inform our journey to zero carbon. Here are some examples:
Knauf Insulation’s new sustainability strategy For A Better World focuses on four key goals: Putting People First, Achieving Zero Carbon, Delivering A Circular Economy and Creating Better Buildings.
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