The Dow Jones Sustainability Index evaluates companies’ ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) performance and the capability to continuously improve. The index serves as a benchmark for investors, who are committed to ethical investing and review companies’ ESG performance as part of their analyses. Valmet scored high in innovation management as well as resource efficiency, circularity, emissions and water reporting.
“We have consistently worked on all fronts of our Sustainability360º Agenda, which has been the backbone for the company’s sustainability work for the past decade,” says Anu Salonsaari-Posti, SVP, Marketing, communications, sustainability and corporate relations at Valmet. “Since 2021, we have put even more emphasis on climate actions as we launched our climate program – Forward to a carbon neutral future – with ambitious emission reduction targets across our entire value chain by 2030. Already today, we have achieved one of the program’s targets meaning that we can enable fully carbon neutral production for all our pulp and paper industry customers.”
Valmet is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and the company’s shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.
