Transparency is at the heart of our sustainability journey
Sustainability is key to Promat’s purpose of Advancing expertise to build a safe and sustainable world. Promat solutions can make a strong contribution to more sustainable construction and industrial industries, by working on circularity and decarbonization and across the lifecycle of our products.
At Promat, we are dedicated to playing a proactive role in a sustainable tomorrow. We not only enable sustainable energy and construction methods; we also work towards developing a more sustainable portfolio. As part of the Etex Group, we have the credentials and ClearChange is also about having a clear path towards our objectives for a more circular portfolio that contains less embodied carbon. We focus on 6 key areas to reduce our carbon footprint and help our customers to build sustainably.
Product design
Product design
- EPDs to have a sustainability perspective on the design of our portfolio
- Designed to have easier repair and maintenance
- Reducing the scope 3 of our customers, helping them to achieve their sustainability objectives
Decarbonisation
Decarbonisation
- Investing in an aggressive decarbonisation programme of our thermal processes, ensuring lower embodied carbon by using significantly less energy
- Using renewable energy as our source and also producing renewable energy at our plants
- Developing new products that require less water and energy
- Electrification of processes, from production to forklifts and everything in between
Delivery and assembly
Delivery and assembly
- Reduce the amount of plastic in our packaging
- Increase the recycled content of our packaging materials
- Make our packaging recyclable and re-usable at our customer end, taking seriously our extended producer responsibility
- Take back packaging where possible (pallets, megacoils, timber boxes)
- Workshop for ease of assembly and to limit waste and landfill of our customers
- Adapting our logistics and supply chain with sustainability in mind, from warehouse to transporation methods
- Optimise our deliveries and how we package to avoid emissions linked to transportation
Energy saving
Energy saving
- Enable lower operating carbon of industrial and construction customers
- Actively contribute to lower energy buildings requiring LEED and BREEAM certification
- Support more sustainable building methods and sustainable energy segments that are key for a low carbon future
Built to last
Built to last
- Highly durable products, with long service life for our products
- Products that are easy to repair and very easy maintenance
- Long product life cycles
- Products that make it easy when a building is being retrofitted and also for bringing a second life to old buildings and structures
Re-use and recycling
Re-use and recycling
- Developing the recyclability of our products
- Introducing more recycled content in our products
- Re-using internal waste and working with partners to achieve our aim of zero landfill across our plants
- Developing take-back solutions for customer scrap
- Re-use of water in our processes
- Water treatment facilities
