Our commitments to sustainability
Forging a clear path
Our sustainability strategy is composed of three pillars – minimizing our carbon footprint, enabling a low-carbon society, and engaging our employees and communities to build a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Our goals
Minimize
At Sulzer, we have a clear path towards reducing our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Our main source of carbon emissions has been identified as electricity, so we have put a plan in place to switch to renewable sources for our sites across Europe and beyond. The UK is leading the way – most of our UK sites have already switched to renewable electricity. In 2021, we reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 25%, putting us firmly on the path towards achieving our targets. We’re also concentrating on waste and water reduction, ensuring we minimize our footprint across all our areas of operation.
Enable
Sulzer uses its unique expertise to address environmental challenges with a wide variety of cleantech solutions. These include areas like water (sustainable management of the entire water life-cycle), circularity (e.g. recycling and converting emissions into fuels), efficiency (energy-saving AI solutions and product-life extension) and renewable applications (plastic substitution via degradable biopolymers). We invest continuously in R&D activities and work together with leading global companies like H&M or ArcelorMital to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.
