Sustainability at ROCKWOOL

Annual report 2024

Building a climate resilient future

We transform volcanic rock into stone wool and our products contribute to address many of society’s biggest climate change challenges, creating new opportunities to enrich modern living and build safer, healthier, and more climate resilient communities. Indeed, stone wool is a versatile natural material with multiple benefits that makes it ideal for applications in buildings, industry, transportation, horticulture, and water management.

Discover how our Group Sustainability Report provides a holistic view of how ROCKWOOL's products can support communities and increase our positive impact through new initiatives (handprint) while reducing our negative environmental impact of our operations (footprint).

ROCKWOOL is committed to transparency and to reporting accurate and reliable information. Every year we publish our Annual report to communicate with our stakeholders.

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CEO Jes Munk Hansen and CFO Kim Junge Andersen AR2024

Sustainability is central to our business strategy

Our aim is to turn sustainable development challenges into business opportunities by developing innovative, safe products that address some of the most significant societal challenges of our time. As a durable, recyclable, non-combustible, and versatile material, stone wool forms the basis of our business. Sustainability is the foundation that underpins the ROCKWOOL business model and value chain.

Since 2016, ROCKWOOL has been aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) framework. Drawing on extensive consultation with both internal and external stakeholders, we have prioritised 10 of the 17 SDGs. This was confirmed by the double materiality assessment. Gender equality (SDG 5) and Peace, justice and strong institutions (SDG 16) were added in 2024. We have targets related to gender equity and a target for the ratio of active employees in at-risk functions who received Code of Conduct training.

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2024 Annual Report

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ROCKWOOL has a critical role to play in the renovation wave and we are ready to act.

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Collaboration is key to our sustainability work. To name a few:

The Wageningen University & Research

In 2017, ROCKWOOL partnered with the Wageningen University & Research, specialising in life science, to develop a methodology on a quantitative comparison between soil based cultivation systems and stone wool systems.

One Ocean Foundation

In 2022, ROCKWOOL has joined forces with One Ocean Foundation in a multi-year global scientific partnership focused on accelerating solutions to protect and regenerate our ocean.

ROCKWOOL Denmark SailGP team collaborates with One Ocean Foundation with the objective to analyse, track and reduce the carbon and plastic footprint of team operations as part of SailGP’s Impact League initiative.

Circular Economy

Supported by Circle Economy Consulting, ROCKWOOL has developed a set of circularity KPIs to not only support disclosure in relation to CSRD and the EU Taxonomy, but also to help drive the transition along every step of the value chain. Circle Economy Consulting has developed an indicator dashboard for ROCKWOOL to measure its efforts against applying to different steps of the value chain: Circular materials, Circular use and Circular end-of-life.

Learn more about our sustainability goals here

The environmental impact of Rockflow®

Made from fully circular stone wool

Circularity is not only an important issue from an environmental perspective, but also economically. The use of circular stone wool elements as an infiltration system for rainwater is making a significant contribution to a more circular economy.

The circularity of Rockflow

Life Cycle Analyses and Environmental Product Declaration

We systematically and transparently assess the environmental performance of our Rockflow products during its whole lifecycle. You can find further information about our environmental impact in our Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).

To the Rockflow LCA and EPD

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Protecting climate and environment

Environment

Our commitment to sustainability includes advocating for energy efficiency, decarbonisation, building renovation, and a circular economy, all in the effort to protect the climate and the environment.

Social

ROCKWOOL actively engage at advocating effective energy efficiency policies to meet global climate goals and offer multiple benefits – social, economic, environmental and energy security.

Governance

As part of our environmental, social and corporate governance, we have implemented policies to make sure we meet the highest standards throughout our operations.