Circularity / Innovation
The Vetrotech innovation focus is on working towards a business model that reduces virgin material use and waste, and avoids landfills if at all possible through reuse and recycling. This includes eco-innovation of products that have an improved CO2 footprint through use of less raw materials, and process improvements in our plants. There are challenges—specialty safety glass by definition includes interlayers, films and sealants that make them harder to recycle just now. But we are working on them, and already recycle cullets from float and tempered glass. We’re also exploring the possibility of sharing cullet by-products with other divisions in the Saint-Gobain family for use in their products, maximising the efficiency of waste recycling and new product manufacturing for the Group as a whole. We’ve also started a working group on sustainable packaging—while 100% of the wood used in our stillages is FSC-certified, we want to go further by finding ways to reduce or replace plastics and foams, and collect and reuse stillages wherever possible. Use less. Do more. Applying the innovation experience gained through daily development of custom products is our way to sustainability we can all believe in.
Our objectives
Reduce raw materials use by more than 30% by 2030 (compared to 2010)
reusable or recyclable packaging by 2030
Our concrete actions
We have made a commitment to support the Saint-Gobain group in achieving its sustainable development objectives and have implemented a number of concrete actions. Discover our progress along the way.
Breaking down the complexity
Curious to learn more about these sustainable development topics? Find out more in these articles.
Discover our other pillars
Aiming for true net zero
Vetrotech has always been on the safe side, and our uncompromising dedication to safety naturally extends to our environmental responsibility.
Integrity is in the details
Credibility is a product of trust, and trust requires transparency. That’s why Vetrotech is leading an industry push to transparency in sustainability activities—starting with our own efforts.
Our life’s work
Safety and sustainability are part of the same conversation—an uncompromising approach to safety is impossible if it doesn’t also include action for the well-being of communities and the environment.
