Sustainability Report 2019

#ThisFutureRocks

ROCKWOOL has committed to 10 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which serve as our blueprint for building a better tomorrow. In 2019, we announced our aim to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from production in Denmark and by adding a new metric to measure our socio-economic impact.

We named our 2019 Sustainability Report #ThisFutureRocks, because we believe that through our solutions, we can create a better tomorrow.

Year after year, we continue to make progress towards our sustainability goals through the impacts of our products and the efforts we make to minimise our operational impacts.

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ROCKWOOL Sustainability Report 2019

In our 2019 Sustainability Report you can read about our achievements, our progress against our goals and the new initiatives that we are taking to increase our positive impact.

GRI Standard Reference Index

Our reporting is informed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards. The Standards highlight a number of material topics across three categories: economic, environmental and social, which are material to our business.

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Making progress

In our 2019 Sustainability Report you can read about our achievements, our progress against our goals and the new initiatives that we are taking to increase our positive impact.

Creating impact

In 2019, we increased the stone wool collected and recycled from customers by 23%, we improved the learning conditions for 445,000 students, saved 100 million litres of water and reduced our Lost Time Incident rate (LTI) by 17%. These are just some of our achievements in 2019. Read more about the progress we made in other areas in our Sustainability Report.

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Decarbonising

With the release of our Sustainability Report, we also announce our aim to reduce the absolute and relative intensity* of the CO2 emissions from its production in Denmark by 70 percent (compared to 1990 levels) before 2030, matching the Danish government’s national target. Learn more about our decarbonisation in Denmark and throughout our operations in our Sustainability Report.

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Measuring our socioeconomic impact

We can now monitor the jobs and economic value ROCKWOOL creates directly or indirectly as well as the socio-economic value of the energy our products save. Together with Copenhagen Economics, we developed a new methodology to estimate our global and local contribution to create local jobs and economic growth. Read more about our socioeconomic impact in our Sustainability Report.

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Fact book and data

The factbook offers a deeper look at ROCKWOOL’s sustainability priorities, including our material issues, how we operate as a responsible business and maintain compliance, respect human rights and our progress on our sustainability goals and the SDGs.

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Enhanced acoustics

Students benefited from better learning environments with Rockfon acoustic solutions in 2019

Employment created

Jobs created at our stone wool-producing facilities and with suppliers in 2019

Water saved

million litres of water saved by greenhouse growing products sold in 2019

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A net positive carbon impact

Through our insulation products we have truly significant positive impact on climate change.

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Our socioeconomic impact

We developed a new methodology to monitor the jobs and the economic value that we create directly or indirectly; and the socio-economic value of the energy our products save.