Sustainability & Circularity
It's in our DNA!
Why sustainability and circularity?
IKO has more than 30 factories and 4,500 employees worldwide. As a prominent player in roofing materials, liquid waterproofing and insulation, we attach great importance to sustainability and our contribution to the world.
Every year each European consumes nearly 15 tons of raw materials and he/she produces no less than 500 kg of waste.
We will have to do something about this together, and if everyone (consumers and companies) make an effort we will together have a better world to work and live in.
The construction sector has a significant impact on the environment. As far as IKO is concerned, it is all the more important to take steps towards sustainability at all levels and to increase the re-use of materials.
We do this by means including sustainable and ecologically responsible solutions.
But we do even more …
We have grouped our objectives into three main themes that cover our impact on the environment and society:
IKO Products
At IKO we produce all the components ourselves. This enables us to choose sustainable materials for the production process to the extent possible, that can be easily recycled, repaired or re-used.
IKO Processes
Our focus on improvement and efficiency has results including lower energy consumption, a reduction in or better control of waste material flows and better performing products.
IKO DNA
We understood our DNA as the way our employees contribute to reducing the ecological footprint, and how we cooperate with each other. Or call it how we behave.
IKO is guided by circularity and by the 17 Sustainable Development Objectives of the United Nations.
IKO can make a substantial contribution to achieving these five objectives:
Affordable and sustainable energy
Responsible consumption and production
Action on the climate
Life in water
Decent work and economic growth
Circularity can be seen as the end result of sustainability and is based on nine concepts.
IKO focuses on four of these concepts:
At IKO we produce all the components ourselves: bituminous and plastic roofing felt, high-efficiency PIR insulation and liquid waterproofing systems. This enables us to choose sustainable materials for the production process to the extent possible, that can be easily recycled, repaired or re-used.
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