Sustainability articles
Sustainability articles
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Video: Valmet supports Save the Children’s Child Sensitive Social Protection project in Dungarpur, India
In 2020, Valmet started to support Save the Children’s Child Sensitive Social Protection project in Dungarpur. Valmet makes annual donations with a target to increase children’s education and improve the care for vulnerable children.
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Video: Valmet's value creation
Valmet is the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper, energy and other process industries. Creating these technologies and services requires a range of resources: from skillful people to natural resources like metals, water and energy, from finances to infrastructure, as well as intellectual and social capabilities.
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Valmet’s social responsibility towards students continues: Employes hundreds of summer trainees
Each summer Valmet hires hundreds of summer trainees to work in its Finnish locations. The summer trainees work in engineering, production, procurement and logistics, product development, sales, finance and administration. In May 2020, Valmet was chosen as the fifth most attractive employer by the engineering students in Finland.
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Valmet’s Innovation Pathways global training program brings results
Innovation Pathways, one of Valmet’s global training programs, is designed to support Valmet’s profitable growth and build an innovation culture.
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Forward with solar power
Valmet’s Lentokentänkatu and Rautpohja facilities in Finland have been converted into solar power stations. This means that on sunny days days, these locations can utilize a good number of green energy.
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Ørsted to go coal-free by 2023
Ørsted has taken an important step in reducing its CO2 emissions by converting electricity and heat production from coal to sustainable biomass at the plant.
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BS Energy taking steps towards zero coal
BS Energy in Braunschweig, Germany, is decreasing their carbon footprint and going green with Valmet’s sustainable biomass-fired plants.
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Developing more sustainable transportation
Valmet transports large amounts of products in its operations and is therefore constantly seeking more sustainable transportation methods.
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Valmet’s human rights impact assessment
Valmet is committed to the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Within the framework of our Sustainability360º Agenda, we have created a management system for human rights due diligence in our own operations.
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Starting a dialogue on safety in every team
Safety Dialogue is the largest training program Valmet has launched to date. The aim of the training is to actively engage every team in a meaningful dialogue on making Valmet and the industry safer.