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We create innovative solutions that enable our customers to improve their safety and quality performance, reduce their environmental footprint, become more efficient in their processes, and reduce costs.

We aim to deliver sustainable, profitable growth to provide our shareholders with a superior return on their investment, whilst providing our employees with a safe workplace where they are recognised, developed and properly rewarded.

Our Sustainability initiative embodies this purpose. It sets out the Group’s formal objectives and targets for supporting our customers, our employees and our communities, and for protecting our planet for future generations. It is embedded in the Group’s overall strategy and informs how we deliver on the Group’s execution priorities.

The key objectives and priorities of our Sustainability initiative are outlined here. They were defined following the identification and analysis of the Group’s most important and material sustainability risks and opportunities.

Learn more about Vesuvius' materiality assessment.

Our customers

Our planet

Our people

Our communities
  • We actively support our customers’ efforts to improve safety on the shop floor, especially exposure to hot metal.
  • We help customers improve their operational performance and thereby reduce their environmental footprint, and especially their CO2 emissions.  
  • We are tackling climate change by reducing our CO2 emissions and helping our customers reduce theirs with our products and services. We are committed to reaching a net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon footprint at the latest by 2050.
  • We engage in the circular economy by increasing the lifetime of our products, reducing our waste, recovering more of our products after they have been used and increasing the usage of recycled materials.
  • The safety of our people and everyone else who accesses our sites is our  first priority. We take safety very seriously and we constantly strive to improve it.
  • We offer growth opportunities to all our employees through training and career progression to develop diverse, engaged, and high-performing teams.
  • We want to increase gender diversity at every level of the company.
  • We support the communities in which we operate, with a focus on promoting and supporting women’s education in scientific fields.
  • We ensure ethical business conduct both internally and with our trading partners.
  • We extend our sustainability commitment to our suppliers and encourage them to progress.

 

In October 2020, Vesuvius became a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact. We have committed to base our business approach on its ten Principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption and to engage in activities which advance the development of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Go to United Nations Global Compact website

See our United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

 

Read about our progress on the SDGs in our Sustainability Report, A Better Tomorrow.

Download our Report

 

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