Investor Presentaiton
MORE PERFORMANCE WITH LESS
ACCELERATING THE TRANSITION
TO CIRCULARITY
Saint-Gobain's strategy is based on four main areas. They reduce the pressure on natural resources
throughout its value chain and optimize the benefits of the Group's solutions, while maintaining
the value of resources at its highest level:
SYSTEMATICALLY
PROMOTING CIRCULAR
FLOWS:
⚫ by reducing the use of raw materials by
increasing the use of recycled materials,
and incorporating circularity criteria into
the design of products, systems and
packaging;
⚫ by sourcing renewable or biosourced
raw materials which are sustainably
managed, in recyclable materials and
components for solutions and packaging;
⚫ by gradually eliminating linear material
flows (non-recyclable, non-renewable
resources, not sustainably managed)
paying special attention to the presence
of hazardous substances;
⚫ by designing solutions that consume
fewer resources, including by making
products lighter, ensuring their
recyclability or reuse and generating less
waste over their life cycle.
OPTIMIZING
PRODUCTION
AND DISTRIBUTION
•
PROCESSES:
by adapting them to the integration
of recycled materials, including
for packaging;
⚫ by improving them in order to limit
final waste from production;
⚫ by providing services to customers
to facilitate the recovery of waste
across the value chain.
DESIGNING
RESOURCE-EFFICIENT
SOLUTIONS:
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by participating in the public debate
to encourage resource-efficient
construction methods, such as light
construction;
by promoting renovation, which will
allow an improved use of the building;
by designing solutions that facilitate
the modularity of buildings and/or
the optimization of their use;
•
by anticipating deconstruction
to promote the reuse or recycling
of materials.
ENHANCING THE VALUE
OF BUILDINGS AT END OF LIFE:
•
by preserving the value of resources
through recycling channels or
partnerships to promote the reuse and
recovery of construction waste and its
recycling;
⚫ by recovering waste from construction,
renovation and transformation sites,
and dismantling sites, as well as from
distribution collection points or sorting
centers for private individuals;
by sorting waste through treatment
sites to facilitate its integration during
production, thus reducing landfill and
destruction;
by developing technologies to
treat waste and to supply recyclable
materials to the production processes.
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