Sustainability is not a goal, it’s a mission

By 2025, we aim to be the sustainability leader for the carbide and cutting tool industry. Therefore, we are implementing sustainability measures along the entire value chain. 

How do we plan to achieve our vision and carry out our mission?

To follow our ambitious sustainability mission throughout the company, we involve the entire value chain. Our sustainability strategy not only relates to internal processes and resources. It also sets new standards for collaboration with our partners - in terms of environmental, social and governance criteria, or ESG for short.

We know that there are many areas to consider. In the first step, we are increasingly focusing on the aspects with the greatest leverage: decarbonisation and circular economy.

CERATIZIT has submitted near-term and long-term targets to SBTi for validation and has therefore a net-zero target for 2040.

• Near term target: CERATIZIT commits to reduce absolute scope 1, 2 and 3 upstream GHG emissions by 60% by FY2030 from a FY2020 base year.
• Long term target: CERATIZIT commits to reduce absolute scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions by 90% by FY2040 from a FY2020 base year.
• Net-Zero target: CERATIZIT commits to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain by FY2040.

CERATIZIT has set a voluntary target to reduce absolute scope 1, 2 and 3 upstream GHG emissions by 35% by FY2025 from a FY2020 base year.

To reduce the mining of virgin raw materials, our mission is to keep the share of raw materials remaining in the carbide production chain to around 90% (based on scrap recycling rates of sintered products).