Download our 2021 Sustainability Report

Building a climate resilient future

At ROCKWOOL, we transform volcanic rock into stone wool and our products contribute to address many of society’s biggest climate change challenges, creating new opportunities to enrich modern living and build safer, healthier communities. Indeed, stone wool is a versatile natural material with multiple benefits that makes it ideal for applications in buildings, industry, transportation, horticulture, and water management.

We pursue a fact-based, auditable approach backed up by third-party references and methodologies to document progress in maximising our products’ positive impact (handprint) and minimising the impact of our operations (footprint).

By downloading our report, you can learn how ROCKWOOL’s products support communities to adapt and build resilience to climate change and how we reduce the environmental impact in our production and value chain.

Our approach to sustainability

At ROCKWOOL, we’re dedicated to enriching modern living. We strive to increase our positive impact on people and society by maximising the positive impact our products make, otherwise known as our handprint, and by minimising our operational impact, also referred to as our footprint. We recognise that operating with integrity and as a responsible business is equally important and underpins everything we do. Our approach to sustainability is based on three principles covering both our handprint and footprint:

Sustainability governance

At ROCKWOOL Group, our sustainability-related governance structures are aligned with – and of the highest priority for – our Board and Group Management team. Our strategic focus on sustainability ensures that we always have the resources and input to engage with our stakeholders and continuously improve our performance.

Sustainability goals

Our business strategy is driven by a passion for converting sustainable development challenges into business opportunities, through products, solutions and partnerships. As a global company our operations and products have a positive impact, or handprint, on many social, economic and environmental aspects of our world. But the production of our products has a negative environmental impact. To measure our impact, we set goals to increase our handprint, reduce our footprint, and to measure and communicate our progress. These eight sustainability goals are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Understand how sustainability drives our business

How do we measure our product impact?

We make the most significant positive impact on sustainable development through the use of our products. The products that we create not only improve the health and wellbeing of citizens but they also equip them with solutions to combat climate change. In collaboration with different partners and organisations, we develop methodologies to measure and quantify our impact, so that we can measure our progress against the Sustainable Development Goals.

At ROCKWOOL Group, sustainability is at our core. Our business strategy is driven by a passion for converting sustainable development challenges into business opportunities, through innovative products, solutions and partnerships.

At ROCKWOOL Group, we’re committed to supporting the transition towards a circular economy. Afterall, ROCKWOOL products are circular by nature, so perfectly complement an economy where products are made from natural and abundant materials, designed for better and more durable use and can be infinitely recycled.

Although city living can be great and full of opportunities, it can be challenging when it comes to health and safety, and issues such as noise, air pollution and the threat of fire. Products from ROCKWOOL Group can create the optimal indoor environment while enhancing fire resilience.

Learn about our Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance policies and how we are rated by global ESG rating agencies that assess our progress each year.