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.
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Taking the circular economy forward - Decreased need for non-renewables
The main idea of the circular economy is about taking into use as few new materials as possible, using existing material flows longer and minimizing waste.
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Taking the circular economy forward – Flexible energy production
Through its technology, automation and services offering, Valmet has a key role in enabling its customers to apply a circular economy in their operations within energy production.
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Taking the circular economy forward – Improved use of resources
Valmet has an important role in the circular economy by offering customers technology and services for converting renewable resources into sustainable products, such as pulp, paper, board and bioenergy.
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CRE8 4PEOPLE a contest with the target to make a difference
Can a company like Valmet contribute to social sustainability; care for employees and their wellbeing and also engage in the society they are living in? Something that really makes a difference? The answer is CRE8 4People a unique challenge in social sustainability.
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Inside EiPM – Valmet’s newest training program on project management
So, what makes Excellence in Project Management training program so unique? Like any of Valmet’s global training programs, the program is designed to strengthen our strategic capabilities, in this case, our project management capability, and to make a step change in our ways of working.
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Valmet receives Bronze Class distinction in SAM Sustainability Yearbook 2020
Valmet has received Bronze Class distinction in SAM Sustainability Yearbook 2020 for excellent sustainability performance. Sustainability Yearbook is a comprehensive publication providing in-depth analysis on corporate sustainability.
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Safety in shutdown management
Safety is essential in shutdown management. Valmet is committed to improving the health, safety and environmental performance of its operations and of the industries it serves.
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Valmet's seasonal donation to Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders
Valmet continues its holiday season tradition to support selected global humanitarian organizations and projects. Every year Valmet's employees globally vote for the donation target, and this year the support goes to Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders.
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What does a sustainable business mean?
Everyone is talking about sustainability - suppliers, producers, authorities, environmental agencies etc. But what does sustainability really mean? Does it mean the same to all of us? Often it is used synonymously with words like “green”. But “green” does not say anything about a product or process etc. being sustainable or not.
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Video: Valmet’s sustainability engagement program for selected key suppliers in China
Valmet is continuously supporting its suppliers’ sustainability operations. In 2018, Valmet launched a sustainability engagement program for selected key suppliers in China.