Environment

Tikkurila offers high-quality, competitively priced and environmentally sustainable products and guides customers to make sustainable choices. We aim to continuously minimize the environmental impact of our operations and products, and develop environmentally sound products. We want to be a forerunner in the environmental matters and take the environment into consideration in all our operations. Systematic and proactive environmental work benefits both Tikkurila and its stakeholders.

When developing and manufacturing products, we consider the environmental and other sustainability issues of the entire life-cycle of paint, ranging from raw materials to finished products and product disposal.

Customer interest in environmentally sound products has increased due to the increased environmental awareness, positive attitude towards environment as well as legislative changes concerning the composition and safety of paints. Customers want to choose products that cause a minimal environmental impact in production and use, and that are safe to use.

Preventing risks and hazardous situations is an important aspect of Tikkurila’s environmental efforts. Risk analyses were carried out in 2012 in Tikkurila’s units, and corrective measures, such as developing technical solutions, promoting safe practices, training personnel and drawing up guidelines, were taken based on the analyses. In addition, emergency rehearsals are organized regularly at the units. In 2012, there were no fires or chemical leaks into the environment at the units.

Environmental information

	2012	2011	2010
Direct energy consumption*, kWh/product liter	0.11	0.09	0.08
Indirect energy consumption**, kWh/product liter	0.25	0.25	0.29
Solvent emissions in production (VOC) into the air, g/product liter	0.50	0.44	0.40
Amount of hazardous waste, g/product liter (supply chain)	21.6	23.2***	8.3
Amount of other waste, g/product liter (supply chain)	14.0	14.9***	28.9
Share of water-borne products in production, %	71.4	70.1	70.3
Investments in environmental protection, EUR million	0.3	0.5	0.2
Operating cost of environmental protection, EUR million	2.1	2.1	2.1
Operating cost of environmental protection, cent/product liter	1.0	1.0	1.0

* fuel consumption at production sites
** electricity, district heating, purchased steam
***As of 2011, national waste classifications in accordance with the GRI guidelines have been used as the waste classification basis in environmental sustainability reporting. In previous years, classifications defined by the EU were applied.