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At Henkel we are committed to leadership in sustainability. With our pioneering spirit, knowledge and innovative technologies, we aim to drive sustainable development and shape a viable future for the next generations.
This is also reflected in our company purpose: Pioneers at heart for the good of generations.
At Adhesive Technologies we translate this purpose into real-world action – and make sustainability happen.
Climate: Decarbonizing our operations and raw materials and enabling emission reduction at our customers.
Circularity: Embedding circular practices in our own operations while enabling debonding and recyclability along the value chain.
Safety: Optimizing the chemical safety of our products and going beyond legal requirements.
The world is facing enormous challenges. We see it as our responsibility to contribute to solving these challenges by enabling sustainability through material science and scientific know-how in bonding, sealing and coating.
In light of this, we have developed our
Adhesive Technologies Sustainability Ambition 2030
which focuses on the topics that matter to our planet, our customers and our wider stakeholders, and summarizes both the global challenges and the efforts we take to address those.
To bring our ambition to life we drive sustainability in two key ways.
First, we lead by example and optimize our own footprint. By driving continuous improvement in our own operations while also accelerating the use of sustainable raw materials.
Building on that, we lead through technology. By providing innovative solutions that enable our customers to boost their contribution to sustainability.
And we do all this supported by end-to-end transparency, reliable data and consistent measurement.
We believe bold ambitions are the key to unlocking real-world progress.
In this spirit, we are making four promises for 2030 that will bring to life our vision of a sustainable future.
These four promises shape our daily business.
Scroll down to find out how we put them into action.
Our promise: We will be the first global adhesives player with climate-positive operations by 2030.
What we aim for:
By combining on-site renewable energy and green energy procurement our Aerospace plant in Montornès del Vallés, Spain reached carbon-neutrality. In 2021 the site was recognized as a global lighthouse and frontrunner in industry 4.0 by the World Economic Forum.
Our high-tech facility at the Songdo site in Maru, South Korea, is fully equipped with solar panels. The shingled panels incorporate Henkel's own innovative Electrically Conductive Adhesives (ECAs) to maximize power output and optimize reliability.
At our site in Jundiaí, Brazil a water treatment facility processes rainwater for reuse in applications such as irrigation or for flushing toilets. This results in a significant reduction in water consumption and wastewater generation.
Our promise: We will offer net-zero or low-emission products to all of our customers by 2030.
What we aim for:
Technomelt Supra 098 Eco with up to 98 percent bio-based material (combination of direct bio-based and certified mass balance transfer raw materials) enables optimization of the carbon footprint of end products and packaging.
Industry’s first bio-based polyurethane reactive (PUR) Loctite hot melt structural adhesive with 60 percent bio-based content from renewable, plant-based feedstock is a sustainable alternative for consumer electronics assembly.
Ceresit's revolutionary eco packaging solution, the “Eco Bucket”, is made of 50 percent recycled plastic and 100 recyclable. The thin wall technology reduces raw material use and weight of the packaging.
Our promise: We will offer every customer solutions and services that enable emission reduction and circularity by 2030.
What we aim for:
Our high-impact water-based bonding technology for sport shoes enables a CO2 footprint reduction of up to 30 percent in the adhesive bonding process at our customers.
This debondable non-reactive hotmelt adhesive allows to re-open headlamps for component repair without damaging the lens or housing.
Mining industry’s first solvent-free adhesive for rubber lining applications with zero volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which was developed jointly with our customer Weir Minerals.
Our promise: We will deliver 100 percent end-to-end transparency on the sustainability of all of our products in line with leading standards by 2030.
What we aim for:
To pioneer in transparency we joined Catena-X, a pan-European network that aims to standardize the methodology for calculating footprints and the associated data exchange for all participants in the automotive value chain.
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