2024 Calvin Frost Sustainability Leadership Awards Highlight: Henkel
The Calvin Frost Sustainability Leadership Awards celebrate TLMI members’ innovative efforts to impact the environment and society positively. 2024’s Trailhead, Journey, and Elevation category winners have set new benchmarks for sustainable practices, inspiring others to follow in their footsteps. Today, I’ll blog about Henkel, the Journey level supplier category winner.
Henkel – Balancing product quality, safety, and sustainability while enhancing transparency and collaboration across operations.
Henkel’s “2030+ Sustainability Ambition Framework” illustrates the company’s deep commitment to sustainability, integrating environmental, social, and governance factors into its core business practices.
Four areas of focus for Henkel were:
- Reducing Scope 3 emissions and raw material use: helping customers align with their own sustainability objectives.
- Promoting Circular Economy: implementing efforts to enable recycling and increased recycled content in products and packaging.
- Lifecycle Assessment Support: providing tools and data that help customers assess cradle-to-gate lifecycle impact of products.
- Collaborative Projects: Engaging in partnerships and collaborative projects focused on sustainability, Henkel offers value chain insights and practices that customers can adopt.
In addition, Henkel was able to achieve the following:
- Reduced water consumption by 14%
- Reduced waste sent to landfill by 11%
- Increased recycling by 15%
- Decreased VOC emissions by 23%
By 2030, Henkel aims to triple the value it creates for the environmental footprint of its operations, products, and services compared to 2010, focusing on reducing CO2 emissions, waste, and water usage.