Sustainability Agenda
Sustainability is at the core of our strategy and business. Our vision is to be the frontrunner in nonwovens innovation and sustainability. Sustainability is an integral part of all our operations.
Sustainability Agenda 2025–2030
Suominen’s Sustainability Agenda is built around four key themes that reflect the most important topics for the company and its stakeholders: People and safety, Sustainable nonwovens, Low impact manufacturing and Corporate citizenship. These themes are based on Suominen’s double materiality assessment, completed in 2024.
Themes and KPI’s
The four themes create basis for actions and targets. Through the sustainability themes Suominen evaluated its performance and reports on its achievements on an annual basis.
People and safety
- Zero lost time accidents (LTA)
- Diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) index 80%
Sustainable nonwovens
- More than two thirds of consumed raw materials are from plant-based resources
- More than half of our new R&D initiatives focus on advancing the development of sustainable products
Low impact manufacturing
- Reducing scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions with limiting global warming to 1.5°C in line with the Paris Agreement
- Zero manufacturing waste to landfill
Corporate citizenship
- All qualified raw material suppliers assessed against Suominen’s sustainability criteria
- All employees have completed Suominen’s sustainability training program
Materiality
Suominen conducted its first double materiality assessment in 2024. Our previous materiality assessment was conducted in 2019. The scope of the 2019 assessment was different from the double materiality assessment and the results are not directly comparable. The results of the 2019 assessment served as the basis for our Sustainability Agenda for the period 2020–2025.
Suominen’s Sustainability Agenda 2025–2030 was published in March 2025. The Agenda is built around four key themes that reflect the most important topics for the company and its stakeholders. The themes are based on the double materiality assessment completed in 2024, which reaffirmed that the themes from previous period of the Sustainability Agenda (2020–2025) remained relevant.
The process of identifying and assessing material impacts, risks and opportunities through a double materiality assessment followed the requirements of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards. The double materiality assessment was carried out in the beginning of 2024 with an external partner. The scope of the double materiality assessment included all Suominen’s operations and geographies and our key business relationships within our value chain.
Results of the double materiality assessment
| ESRS | Sustainability topics | Impact materiality level | Financial materiality level |
| Material topics | |||
| E1 | Climate change | Critical | Critical |
| E2 | Pollution | Critical | Important |
| E3 | Water and marine resources | Critical | Important |
| E4 | Biodiversity and ecosystems | Critical | Significant |
| E5 | Resource use and circular economy | Critical | Critical |
| S1 | Own workforce | Significant | Critical |
| S2 | Workers in the value chain | Significant | Important |
| S4 | Consumers and end-users | Critical | Critical |
| G1 | Business conduct | Significant | Significant |
| Immaterial topic | |||
| S3 | Affected communities | Informative | Minimal |
Sustainability Agenda 2020–2025
Sustainability is at the core of our strategy and business. Our vision is to be the frontrunner in nonwovens innovation and sustainability. Sustainability is an integral part of all our operations.
Suominen and UN Sustainable Development Goals
We have identified three SDG’s which covers the areas where we can make the biggest contribution and our sustainability agenda guides our work towards these goals.
Sustainability reporting
Suominen publishes annually its sustainability report as part of Annual Report. The purpose is to share information for our key stakeholders about Suominen’s sustainability approach and progress in sustainability.