Measures ensuring the highest standards of environmental and chemical safety. These include strict compliance with a Restricted Substances List, actively avoiding the use of organohalogens and related chemical classes, maintaining comprehensive material and chemical inventories, conducting thorough assessments of chemicals and materials, implementing a material health optimization strategy, utilizing optimized materials, minimizing volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions and content, and optimizing chemistry throughout the supply chain.

Our focus on circularity encompasses a range of initiatives aimed at promoting sustainable practices throughout the product lifecycle. These include, among others, educating stakeholders on circularity principles, defining clear technical and/or biological cycles for products, preparing for active cycling through proper infrastructure and processes, increasing demand by incorporating cycled and/or renewable content, ensuring material compatibility for technical and/or biological cycles, providing circularity data and cycling instructions, exploring circular design opportunities and fostering innovation through WIK LABS, designing products with disassembly in mind, and actively engaging in product cycling.

We actively quantify our electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions to ensure transparency and accountability. Through our clean air and climate protection strategy, we strive to minimize our environmental impact. This includes using renewable electricity sources and addressing greenhouse gas emissions during the final manufacturing process. We also prioritize energy efficiency during the use of our products to reduce overall energy consumption. Transparency is key, and we provide clear information on our emissions and efforts to mitigate them. Additionally, we employ blowing agents with low or no global warming potential and take measures to address embodied greenhouse gas emissions throughout our operations.

WIK is committed to understanding and addressing local water and soil issues relevant to our operations and products. We ensure compliance with effluent quality standards and actively quantify our water usage to promote responsible resource management. In line with our water and soil stewardship strategy, we provide access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities. Conservation is a key focus, as we work towards minimizing water and soil impact. We assess and optimize the chemicals present in our effluent and sludge, striving for transparency in our practices. Furthermore, we undertake positive impact projects and optimize effluent and sludge quality at the facility level, actively working towards sustainable water and soil management and making a positive difference in the environment.

WIK takes a comprehensive approach to ensure social fairness and responsibility. We assess risks and opportunities, actively monitoring and verifying our performance to uphold our human rights policy. We have a strategy in place to effectively implement policies and demonstrate our commitment to social impact. Our management systems prioritize transparency, stakeholder engagement, and the establishment of grievance mechanisms. We actively collaborate with stakeholders to address social issues and undertake positive impact projects. Fostering a culture of social fairness, we strive to create an inclusive and equitable environment for all.