Sustainability articles
Sustainability articles
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Increasing employees’ sustainability awareness by e-learning
Valmet’s sustainability e-learning aims at increasing knowledge of Valmet’s approach in sustainability and to familiarize all Valmeteers with the basics of sustainability.
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Sales Journey brings Valmet’s sales professionals together
Sales Journey is a competence development program for Valmet’s sales function and the biggest training investment Valmet has ever made.
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Valmet’s Janne Puustinen selected as the CIO of the Year
Janne Puustinen, Valmet’s VP, Information Technology, has been named as the CIO of the Year by Tivi, a Finnish magazine for information technology professionals.
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Video: Valmet enables circular economy
Circular economy responses to the need to efficiently utilize products and resources throughout their lifecycles. Valmet enables circular economy by offering its customers technology and services for converting renewable resources into sustainable products.
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Valmet maintains its position as a constituent of the Ethibel Sustainability Index Excellence Europe
Valmet has been reconfirmed as a constituent of the Ethibel Sustainability Index (ESI) Excellence Europe since March 22, 2019. The composition of the indices is reviewed twice a year.
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Decreasing water consumption towards 2030 targets
Valmet is committed to improving the environmental performance of its operations and plans to decrease water consumption by 20 percent to 2030. The target is connected to our everyday actions all over the world.
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Valmet receives Bronze Class Sustainability Award 2019 in RobecoSAM’s annual Sustainability Yearbook
Valmet has received a Bronze Class medal in RobecoSAM's annual Sustainability Yearbook 2019 for excellent sustainability performance. RobecoSAM is an investment specialist focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing.
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Valmet sets targets for health and safety 2025
To continue its health and safety improvement, Valmet has renewed the strategic objectives and established the targets for 2025.
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Valmet’s first global multi-site certificate issued
Valmet’s first global multi-site certificate for Quality, Environmental and Health & Safety standards has been issued.
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Valmet’s core commitment: Safety comes first
For Valmet, safety comes first in all the company’s operations. The commitment to safety builds upon three steps: Know it, Believe it and Show it.
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Valmet reconfirmed as a constituent of the Ethibel Sustainability Index Excellence Europe
Valmet was reconfirmed as a constituent of the Ethibel Sustainability Index (ESI) Excellence Europe since September 21, 2018
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Walking the talk about the UN Sustainable Development Goals
As a global company, Valmet has an opportunity to impact the development of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Valmet's Sustainability360˚ agenda and the connected action plans are aligned with the SDGs. Also, all the targets in Valmet's sustainability action plan contribute to the goals. From the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, Valmet has defined four goals that are the most material for Valmet’s operations.
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Valmet enables circular economy
In circular economy, products, components and materials stay in a continuous cycle instead of being thrown away. This very idea is built into Valmet’s solutions for customers.
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Valmet adds two new minimum safety standards to advance safety culture
Valmet is committed to protecting the health, safety and environment of our people, partners, customers and the communities where we operate. Promoting safety culture is in focus as we strive towards our goal of zero harm.
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Sustainable Supply Chain Policy updated to meet today’s requirements
Valmet's Sustainable Supply Chain Policy has been updated. The new policy addresses current sustainability themes better and is more condensed in structure. Read more and get to know the new policy.
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Valmet Rautpohja celebrated its 80th anniversary on June 9, 2018
Valmet’s Rautpohja factory celebrated its 80th anniversary on Saturday, June 9, 2018. More than 4,100 people attended the event, including Valmet’s employees and its partners’ employees who work in Rautpohja on a daily basis, as well as retired employees and their families.
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Valmet’s strategy programs recognized for impactful leadership development
Valmet’s Forward Strategy and Fast Forward programs have been recognized as the best Organizational Development programs by The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) in its annual Excellence in Practice Awards (EiP).
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In motion - the dynamic world of internal mobility
Valmet is a complex, matrixed organization which enables us to develop through various types of internal moves. These moves create unique understanding, bring new ideas, build diverse teams and strengthen our successor pipeline.
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Hundreds of ideas, tens of innovations, six customer proposals and two golden tickets
Hundreds of ideas, tens of innovations and six customer proposals is what Innovation Pathways – Valmet’s new global training program aimed at supporting Valmet’s profitable growth and building an innovation culture – is all about.
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Our journey with engagement
In 2014 following Valmet’s first engagement survey as an independent stock listed company, Valmet set out to use OurVoice to systematically drive engagement. Now, four years later, that focus has deepened and engagement continues to rise.