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Innovating functional materials for a sustainable future

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Sustainability at Premix

Sustainability is in our DNA. Our functional materials bring safety to people, prevent breakages and malfunction and lengthen the product life cycles, e.g., by preventing unintended electric shocks or making diagnostics and healthcare more accurate.

Our objective is to be a leader in sustainability in our industry. Our whole strategy is built on corporate responsibility. One of our main strategic goals is to enable a smaller carbon footprint for our customers and their customers.​ We take daily sustainability actions that make a difference for our products, people, and society!

Premix sustainability promises

As a responsible operator, we develop high-quality products that are important for society and enable our customers to have an environmentally optimal solution. We take responsibility for our environment and ensure that our factory does not cause environmental stress on water bodies, soil, or air. We aim to reduce our carbon footprint, improve our operations and reduce environmental risks related to people's health, safety, or supply chains. We require similar responsibility from the entire supply chain. 

We are committed to using renewable energy and reducing energy and water consumption. We are actively looking for ways to reduce the amount of waste and packaging waste and to use the generated waste as efficiently as possible. We do not manufacture products that are dangerous for our customers or the environment.

We only make materials that matter and have a positive impact on society.

  • We bring functionality to materials to create safety, reliability, and value​

  • We develop and manufacture materials that are essential to our customers and the society​

  • We continuously increase the usage of recycled and renewable raw materials​

  • We will be a key partner in the circular economy 

We will be forerunners also in sustainability. We set ambitious targets.​

  • We enable our customers, and their customers to decrease their carbon footprint

  • We will be the compounding partner with the lowest carbon footprint products in the market by 2030

  • We will publish the products’ carbon footprint by 2025. For all our products.

  • We partner only with companies that share our vision and have ambitious sustainability targets

  • We will go beyond compliance. (e.g. the planned EU Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence)

We will actively use external sustainability performance tools and external certificates.​

We will follow up on the progress of our sustainability actions through performance tools.

  • We will continuously improve our own audited score, reaching the Ecovadis gold level by 2024

  • Companies with Ecovadis bronze level or better should account for 80% of sales revenue and 90% of raw material purchases by 2025.

  • We will actively expand further the use of ISO certificates.

We are open about our progress and learnings​.

We  will continuously publish our progress and learnings at www.premixgroup.com as of June 2023

2023 Sustainability report Our environmental policy Social responsibility

 

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“Sustainability is not only part of our strategy. It is the foundation of our strategy.“

Hanna Ristola
Chair of Board, owner

 

Premix sustainability roadmap

Enabling a smaller CO2 footprint for our customers and us.

Our annual ECOVADIS rating is the tool to ensure we are on track. In 2023, we will start ESG reporting, and in 2024, we will start reporting annually on our sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Since the start of the year 2023, we have used only renewable energy in our operations.

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Premix sustainability roadmap

* ISCC = International Sustainability & Carbon Certification, see more at https://www.iscc-system.org/
** ESG = Environmental, Social, and Governance, see more about the EU directive

Premix's Ecovadis rating ISCC Plus Certificate Renewable energy Responsible Care® Program

 

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“One of our main goals is to enable a smaller carbon footprint for our customers and their customers. Our factory is already now a nearly zero-emission factory. But our main interest is in our value chain, developing new, more sustainable functional materials for our customers.”

TUOMAS KIIKKA,
Director, owner

How can Premix help you decrease your carbon footprint?

Our consultation services help you design the best solution for your product with a smaller carbon footprint.

Design together with us new, better material solutions for your products

  • The right material for your products improves efficiencies in manufacturing and the usability, lifetime, and disposal properties of the product.

  • Functional plastic replacing current material

  • Developing functional plastic with a smaller CO2 footprint but the same functionality

Design together with us circular economy solutions for functional plastics

Closed loops in recycling your customers’ end products to material production at Premix offer the following benefits:

  • To decrease waste

  • To increase the level of recycled materials in the plastic compound from Premix​

We continuously decrease our own footprint at Premix

  • By innovating and fine-tuning our processes, raw materials, energy sourcing, and people leadership.

  • By increasing our own awareness of the footprint of the materials and setting ambitious targets for ourselves

  • By putting sustainability at the center of decision-making​

Check the CO2 footprint of your raw materials

  • In 2023, we have created a CO2 calculation model for our products.

  • By the year 2025, all our products will have CO2 equivalent data available for our customers.

  • In 2024, we will launch our first zero/negative CO2 products.

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Polymer modification experts at your service

Would you like to design together with us new, better material solutions?