Key results 2023: Pioneering sustainable solutions in coatings
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Sustainability performance and a positive contribution to society are important aspects throughout the lifespan of our products.
Managing our sustainable product portfolio
Beckers’ overall aim is to transform the coil coating industry for the better. Smart solutions, sustainable innovations and efficient indicators that help us to drive transformative decisions are our driving forces when we continuously strive to develop our net-sustainable product portfolio.
Our overall goal is to provide coatings that bring sustainability benefits at every stage of their lifecycle, and we aim to have 50% sales from the BSI Achiever class by 2030. Products classified with Beckers Sustainability Index (BSI) Achiever, means they achieve the highest level of material and functional sustainability. Also, our ambition is to phase out and exclude products from Beckers’ product portfolio that have issues with their sustainability performance within five years of being identified. The aim is to have zero products that are classified as BSI Concern by 2030.
“The aim is to have zero products that are classified as BSI Concern by 2030.”
Why a sustainable product portfolio is material to us
Read about the associated risks and opportunities with a sustainable product portfolio and our materiality assessment in the Performance Report 2023.
How we contribute to a sustainable product portfolio
Our ambition is to change the industry for the better through the products we manufacture and sell. As a company that makes coatings from potentially toxic chemicals, sometimes scarce materials, and using fossil-based raw materials, we are aware of the potential and actual negative impacts on people and planet. To provide a sustainable product portfolio means producing products as sustainably as possible and optimizing sustainability during the customer-use phase and their performance throughout their lifespan.
The key is to incorporate more sustainable practices and materials into our products and processes. This involves constant work on new types of paint formulations to take an end-to-end value chain perspective on more sustainable solutions. With the technologies we develop for our coatings, our ambition is to inspire the wider industry to join us on our sustainability journey.
A long tradition of developing more sustainable solutions
For many years, we have promoted the use of renewable raw materials, developed coatings with a reduced climate impact and avoided materials that are scarce. Some of the coatings we sell also provide proven functional sustainability benefits for customers and society while in use. In line with our 2030 Goals, we took major steps in several key areas during 2023:
Re-introducing the verified Beckers Sustainability Index (BSI)
First life cycle assessment of UV/EB curing
Empowering our sales and marketing teams on sustainability
UV/EB – launch of an industry gamechanger
Low-VOC coatings and enhanced product lifetime value
What's happening in the R&D lab?
Tune in to a conversation between James Maxted, our Global Product Sustainability Director, and James Smith, our Global R&D Director for Long Term Development, as they review our main product accomplishments in 2023 and share what we're looking forward to in 2024.
UV/EB curing technology
Years of research came to fruition with the launch of the world’s first commercial UV/EB coatings.
Our improved version of BSI
We relaunched and validated our flagship tool to measure the sustainability performance of our products.
Our Performance dashboard
Explore our comprehensive dashboard for progress across all three sustainability streams.
2030 Goals
Our 2030 Goals steer our transformation in the direction where we see that we need to go for all three streams, Products with Impact, People with Impact and Operations with Impact. These are implemented company-wide.