Orthex Company, Press launch, 27 March 2025 at 9.30 a.m. EET
Orthex Annual and Sustainability Report 2024 has been revealed. Orthex continued its systematic work in all the important thing areas of sustainability, and the efforts in selling round economic system, growing using recycled uncooked supplies, and enhancing useful resource effectivity mark essential steps on our street in the direction of carbon impartial manufacturing.
Orthex goals to be the business forerunner in sustainability and our key sustainability actions in 2024 embody:
- Elevated use of sustainable supplies: The share of recycled and renewable supplies utilized in our merchandise elevated to 16.6% (2023: 15.8).
- Useful resource effectivity: Continued enhancements in vitality effectivity, with vitality consumption per kilogram of product reducing by 9.5% in comparison with the 2020 common. We use EPD licensed renewable hydropower electrical energy in all our factories.
- Worker satisfaction: The Engagement Index, reflecting worker satisfaction, improved to 81 on a scale from 1 to 100 (2023: 79).
- SMETA audits: Orthex’s dedication to moral enterprise practices and sustainability was reaffirmed by way of profitable SMETA audits carried out on the Tingsryd and Lohja factories.
- Round Financial system Inexperienced Deal: Orthex joined the Round Financial system Inexperienced Deal and set bold targets to advertise a low-carbon round economic system by 2035.
In 2024, we prolonged our product portfolio constituted of sturdy recycled plastic with three novelties, SmartStoreTM Essence storage baskets, SmartStore™ Acquire Biowaste bins, and stackable SmartStore™ Acquire Stack-it sorting bins. Partly thanks to those novelties, the expansion in gross sales of merchandise constituted of recycled and renewable supplies was 3 times sooner than the general internet gross sales progress. Our relative carbon footprint that eliminates the impression of enterprise progress decreased solely barely in comparison with the earlier 12 months and was 2.0 kgCO2 eq./kg. Because of quantity progress, our whole emissions elevated to 30,775 tCO2-e from 30,019 tCO2-e in 2023.
We’re concerned in three analysis tasks to advance using recycled and renewable plastics and to advertise round economic system. We take part within the Borealis SPIRIT program, exploring food-safe recycled plastics, and the PlastLIFE SIP-EU venture, the place Orthex has piloted new sustainable uncooked supplies and developed merchandise just like the SmartStore™ Bedroller and SmartStore™ Acquire Stack-it talked about above utilizing modern recycled supplies. Orthex additionally performs a task within the Reusify venture, targeted on discovering options to exchange single-use packaging with reusable merchandise. Extra info on these tasks is accessible in our sustainability report.
“I’m very pleased with the progress we make in our sustainability efforts. We’re working arduous to cut back our emissions and the carbon footprint of our merchandise and operations, however there’s nonetheless loads of work to do. We wish to provide customers sensible, high-quality, and long-lasting merchandise and assist them to advertise round economic system by providing merchandise that make waste sorting simpler at residence and are absolutely recyclable in all our markets on the finish of their life cycle,” says Hanna Kukkonen, Chief Advertising and marketing and Sustainability Officer of Orthex Company.
The Annual and Sustainability Report 2024 is accessible in English and Finnish on the company web site at https://buyers.orthexgroup.com/.
Additional enquiries:
Hanna Kukkonen, CMSO, Orthex Company
Tel. +358 (0)40 053 8886
hanna.kukkonen@orthexgroup.com
Alexander Rosenlew, CEO, Orthex Company
Tel. +358 (0)40 500 3826
alexander.rosenlew@orthexgroup.com
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Orthex briefly
Orthex (ORTHEX, Nasdaq Helsinki, Finland) is a number one Nordic houseware firm. Orthex affords a broad assortment of sensible and sturdy family merchandise with a mission to make customers’ on a regular basis life simpler. Orthex predominant shopper manufacturers are SmartStore™ in storage merchandise, GastroMax™ in kitchenware and Orthex™ in residence and backyard merchandise. Orthex goals to be the business forerunner in sustainability by providing protected and long-lasting merchandise and lowering its carbon footprint by growing the share of recycled and renewable uncooked supplies. Learn extra www.orthexgroup.com.
Orthex’s internet gross sales in 2024 have been 89.7 million euros. The corporate has prospects in additional than 40 international locations and native gross sales organisations within the Nordics, Germany, France, the UK, and the Benelux.
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