Sustainability articles
Sustainability articles
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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.
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Sales journey takes over the geographies
Sales Journey is the biggest training investment Valmet, or its predecessors, has ever made and is set to reach more than 1,000 Valmet sales professionals in all geographies.
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Valmet participates in Earth Hour for the ninth time
Valmet is proud to participate in Earth Hour for the ninth time. This year, a record number of Valmet's locations will turn off their lights for climate.
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Customer needs drive innovation
Customer needs and global megatrends have been the driving force of Valmet’s product development throughout the company’s 220 years of industrial history. Resource efficiency and open innovation connect Valmet’s product development and customers. New leaps in development are aimed at the Industrial Internet and digitalization. Read more on how Valmet's R&D helps customers to move their performance forward.
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Auditing suppliers for sustainability
Every year, Valmet conducts around 50 sustainability audits for its suppliers as part of its sustainable supply chain program. At the core of the process is Valmet’s own supplier sustainability auditor pool, which consists of Valmet professionals from global procurement.
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A hundred young people learned about the working life at Valmet
A hundred young people learned about the working life at Valmet. Participants to the training periods in the spring and fall included both unemployed people and people participating in the VALMA preparatory vocational education. Three-week training periods were arranged at Valmet sites in Tampere, Pori, Ulvila, Järvenpää, Jyväskylä, Raisio, Kajaani and Espoo.
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Valmet receives Silver Class Sustainability Award 2018 in RobecoSAM’s annual Sustainability Yearbook
Valmet has received Silver Class medal in RobecoSAM’s annual Sustainability Yearbook which lists the world’s sustainability leaders.
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Making coffee-to-go greener
Valmet’s innovative curtain coating technology turns the barrier board production inside out making coffee cups recyclable like paper waste. Find out more about circular economy in action!