Paroc puts a lot of effort into environmental issues and has stated relevant guidelines in its environmental policy.

Focusing on product life cycle

Our objective is to be a pioneer when it comes to environmental issues in the construction sector. Our business operations can be characterised as holistic: we follow our products throughout their life cycle and we also take into consideration the positive energy savings and environmental impact of our products during their use.

User instructions

In order to ensure the correct installation of our products, we provide our customers with clear user instructions.

Handling

Openness and co-operation

We provide information about our environmental matters in an open, clear and honest way. We audit the different areas of our manufacturing processes together with the competent environmental authorities. This ensures the development of mutual understanding when agreeing on environmentally necessary measures.

By choosing clear environmental goals, and by providing information to our customers and partners openly, we help them in their own environmental efforts.

Resource management

By increasing the efficiency of our processes we are able to reduce the amount of raw materials and energy needed in manufacturing our products. We are increasingly efficient in making use of raw materials and energy in our manufacturing processes. We keep on developing the recycling and reuse systems in order to increase the opportunities to recycle the stone wool waste produced in the process.

Environmental effects

Through active and continuous optimisation of our processes we are able to reduce emissions, noise emitted and use of raw materials, which in turn reduces the negative effects on nature and our immediate environment. We also actively develop our logistics chain in a direction aimed at reducing the idle running of machinery and subsequently its impact on the environment.

One concrete action in the context of environmental innovation was the environment project where funds, granted by the LIFE financing system within the EU, were used to improve the waste injection prototype in our factories for continuous production use.

Good working and living conditions

When developing or modifying our products, a good working and living environment is paramount in our minds. By making the handling and installation of our products easier, we effectively improve working conditions. We take the requirements of good indoor air quality into consideration in our product development.

Responsibility

All our employees must be aware of the company's environmental policy and its concrete environmental objectives. Environmental responsibilities are defined very clearly. This ensures that laws and regulations as well as other requirements are being observed. We go as far as we can to prevent the possibility of environmental accidents occurring. We evaluate and update our environmental programme annually.

Waste handling