KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2022
102 MILLION
‘Going round, moving forward’ our 2022 sustainability and brand campaign has been viewed by over 102 million people. The campaign introduces Forbo’s endeavor to become the greenest flooring company.
100,000m3
Linoleum is cured in stoves which are heated by natural gas. Clever engineering in 2022 reduced the requirement of natural gas by 100,000m3. A special energy-team focused on all aspects of the Assendelft operation and concluded that further savings until 2025 will be realized.
55.3%
In 2022, our use of renewable energy sources increased to 55.3%, this is a remarkable improvement more because at the same time we decreased our use of natural gas to 41%.
50%
In 2022 we reached a new milestone in our recycled material data as 50% of our modular floor covering solutions and 30% of our sheet products contain more than 30% recycled content. In 2022, overall recycled content in our portfolio exceeds 25%.
75%
For 2022 our ultimate recycling champion in our carpet tile offer is the new Tessera Create Space collection, with 75% of recycled content. Many steps in the value chain for the product have been engineered to achieve this result. Both yarn and backing are created in a closed loop zero waste process. Using an ultrasonic tile cutting machine reduces tile waste by 80% compared to traditional press cutting methods.
4,000 TON CO₂
Replacing two out of three after-burners in the Forbo Novilon Coevorden by a state of the art ingenious filter system, not only reduced the plants’ CO₂ emissions by almost 40% but is also brought back the requirement for natural gas by 50%. In 2023 the last remaining burner will be replaced leading to CO₂ reduction of approximately 60%.
CRADLE TO CRADLE TO FLOOR
Old, and used Marmoleum floor coverings from the Technical University in Delft (NL) was skillfully removed and in agreement with the linoleum factory in Assendelft shipped and reprocessed to become raw material for a new Forbo linoleum floor that was installed again in a professional environment in Amsterdam. The Heineken experience centre now features the first fully recycled linoleum floor.
192,000m2
In 2022 Forbo issued CO₂ neutral certificates for 62 projects in 9 markets to customers, with a total of 192,000m2 that were officially declared to not add any CO₂ to the built environment.
< 1Kg CO₂/m2
Our CO₂ emissions measured per square meter produced came to an all time low of 0.88 kg, a reduction of 74%.
100%
In the building and construction adhesive business unit, all of the plastic buckets and containers for holding and packaging the products have been converted to recycled plastic, instead of virgin material.