Sustainability articles
Sustainability articles
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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.
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Valmet and Save the Children: Collaboration is the best way to make a difference
Laura Puustjärvi, Valmet’s Head of Sustainability, and Anne Haaranen, Save the Children’s Director for International Programs, discuss about their long collaboration and supporting Child Sensitive Social Protection project in Dungarpur, India.
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Valmet's wellbeing actions around the world
Since we spend a third of our time working, the quality of our working lives is an important aspect of our overall wellbeing, whether we work from home or from the workplace. Valmet has location-based health promotion programs in place to support active, well balanced, healthy lifestyles.