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For A Better World:

Our Sustainability Strategy

As a market leader of insulation solutions, helping to reduce the environmental impact of buildings, sustainability and quality drive everything we do.

Our sustainability journey started over 15 years ago. We’re proud of how we’ve changed our business, our products and helped our colleagues, communities, and customers by reducing our impact on the environment.

We are supporting our customers as they navigate an ever-changing landscape of demanding green building requirements and increasingly stringent environmental regulations. We have the experience and expertise to support our customers to achieve their sustainable ambitions.

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Our Sustainability Strategy

For A Better World commits us to Put People First, Achieve Zero Carbon, Deliver A Circular Economy and Create Better Buildings.
At Knauf Insulation we have always been defined by sustainability. We work hard to create products and practices that reduce our environmental impact. In fact, a recent study showed our mineral wool insulation reduces operational carbon from buildings by 3.6 million tonnes every year across Europe - the equivalent of removing 2.5 million cars from our roads.
But for us, sustainability is not a destination - it is a journey of continuous improvement. Everyone from the shop floor to the board room is accountable for our success, which we track every year against four long term goals.

Our long term goals

365 days

Today, Knauf Insulation’s focus is two-fold:

“Low carbon insulation” for “Low carbon buildings”.
1. The manufacture of our products emits carbon. Whilst our mineral wool products already have low embodied carbon compared to other mainstream insulants, we are fully committed to reduce their embodied carbon further and decarbonize our operations fully by 2045.


2. Our insulation plays a major part in the operational carbon of buildings and in achieving Net Zero. On average, it takes 95 days for our insulation solutions to save the carbon emitted during their manufacture. In fact, based on Knauf Insulation’s 2022 sales, the total benefit across Europe equates to 3.6 million tonnes of operational carbon saved annually. However, achieving Net Zero requires buildings that perform in the real world. Our second focus is to bring high quality, high performance products to the market, combined with supporting content and tools to enable real performance and quality of installation.

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