Minimizing our environmental impact

At Suzuki Garphyttan, we take environmental responsibility across all our sites. We strive not only to comply with but also to exceed legal requirements, contributing actively to sustainable development. By partnering with suppliers who share our commitment and provide verifiable data, we ensure that our products have the lowest possible climate and environmental impact. These efforts are key investments in our future and in leading by example.

Certified environmental management

Our environmental initiatives are designed to reduce our impact locally and globally while strengthening competitiveness.

- All sites operate under a certified ISO 14001 environmental management system, ensuring international best practices across our business.
- In 2024, we updated our global environmental policy, which guides our objectives, actions, and collaborations. This policy ensures a structured approach to environmental considerations and forms the basis for continuous improvement.

Each site adapts environmental targets to local conditions while aligning with company-wide objectives. Environmental factors are carefully integrated into product development and manufacturing.

Collaboration across the value chain

We actively collaborate with suppliers, customers, and stakeholders to reduce environmental footprints across the entire life cycle of our products. Our ambition is to develop and deliver products with minimal carbon and ecological footprints, ensuring progress both upstream and downstream in the value chain.

Going forward, we will place even greater emphasis on assessing the entire value chain’s impact. This requires closer cooperation with partners to address shared challenges and opportunities for sustainable development.

Empowering employees

Employees play a central role in achieving our environmental objectives. By investing in training, awareness, and engagement, we ensure that sustainability is embedded throughout the organization. For us, sustainable development means seeing the full picture:

- Reducing environmental impacts from steel production.
- Maximizing the benefits of steel as a material that can be recycled indefinitely.
- Reviewing other parts of the value chain to tackle common challenges.

By combining employee engagement with close partnerships, we drive progress toward our long-term environmental objectives.

Our ongoing activities

Reduce energy and carbon footprint

Producing high-quality wire requires substantial energy, and how this energy is sourced has a significant impact on the environment. At Suzuki Garphyttan, we are committed to minimizing fossil fuel use across all sites and increasing the share of fossil-free and renewable energy in our operations.

Eliminate certain non-environmentally friendly elements

At Suzuki Garphyttan, we recognize that some stages of wire production involve hazardous substances that can pose risks to both people and the environment. While our wire products maintain the same high quality across all sites, each facility is at a different stage of transitioning toward non-hazardous and more sustainable processes.

Optimize water consumption

Water is an indispensable part of our processes, but we are also aware that it is a resource that is becoming more precious by the day. This is why we are trying to save and recycle water in any way we can. All our sites have different approaches and systems for water sourcing and recycling, and each site work hard on their areas that need improvement.

Reducing and recycling for a circular future

At Suzuki Garphyttan, we are committed to using our raw materials as efficiently as possible, ensuring that the highest proportion of purchased materials becomes finished products. Since our steel products are fully recyclable, we actively work to enhance their circularity and extend the life cycle of valuable resources.