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ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT
GREENSTEPS FORWARD
Global results require local focus. By ensuring that each one of our facilities maintains strict standards and
reporting mechanisms, Jotun as a Group reduces waste, energy consumption and the impact of its activities
on the environment.
Jotun GreenSteps is the platform upon which all our
environmental initiatives are built. With five key pillars, the
programme gives a structure that defines our activities, guiding
what we do, who we do business with, and which high quality
products we offer to our global customer base.
As a guiding principle, Jotun is focused on achieving more, yet
consuming less. This means improving products and stakeholder
results, while reducing waste, energy use, emissions, our carbon
footprint, and the use of hazardous materials.
This impacts positively on the business, with greater
efficiency and reduced energy costs, while our increasingly
environmentally aware customer base enjoy high quality
products that help them meet regulatory requirements and
address their own carbon footprints.
Jotun’s focus on assisting customers achieve Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building certification
demonstrates the company’s commitment to supporting more
environmentally sustainable building construction.
LEEDING FROM THE FRONT
Jotun satisfies a growing global demand for more
environmentally responsible building projects with the Green
Building Solutions offer. Created to provide global specifiers
and building owners with approved systems to meet local and
international environmental requirements, this green product
range covers decorative, protective and powder coatings.
As a globally respected certification programme, LEED is a
natural focus for green building projects. The scheme is growing
in popularity with around 80 000 projects currently either
certified or registered, from over 160 countries. Of these, major
developing economies, such as China, UAE, Brazil and India are
recording the fastest growth in LEED certifications.
Jotun caters for this market with products that assist building
owners and developers achieve LEED certification. The right
coatings can play a key role in helping them gain up to 11 points
towards certification, which constitutes 10 per cent of the total
points they need for the highest LEED award. Considering that
coatings typically represent only 0.5 to 2 per cent of overall
project cost, this is a highly efficient way to take a significant
step towards certification.
At Jotun, we see it as our role to not only provide more
environmentally responsible products, but also to educate our
customer base on the best way to utilise them to meet the most
stringent standards, creating buildings that are green, efficient
and economical, today and tomorrow.
STEPS IN 2017
Further GreenSteps activity in 2017 included
• reducing waste by 10 per cent per tonne of produced
product over the last three years. This was achieved through
a systematic approach including encouraging suppliers to
re-use materials, cleaning and re-using water and solvents for
cleaning production equipment, and bulk-delivery of more
raw materials.
• reducing Jotun’s carbon footprint by five per cent over the
past year, contributing to a total reduction of 20 per cent
since 2013. This has been made possible through more
efficient production facilities and processes.
• implementing Jotun’s HSEQ management system, helping
ensure increased focus and standardisation of sustainable
best practices; making Jotun safer and greener.
STEPS AHEAD
In 2018 Jotun will focus on
• continuing to develop sustainable new products and solutions
with less use of solvents and hazardous materials.
• the reduction of energy consumption through modern
production facilities and equipment.
• cooperating with environmental organisation Bellona to
define areas that help Jotun and its customers to develop and
implement sustainable solutions.