The Sustainability Learning Forum

Energy efficiency is our business

Editorial Team

Armacell as a global producer of flexible technical insulation materials stands for innovative sustainable solutions. Energy efficiency, which is at the core of our business, is pursued in many different ways. A regularly conducted Life Cycle Assessment reveals that the energy required to manufacture Armacell’s best-known brand Armaflex has been “recovered” after just 50 days. Further activities include working in international committees for energy efficiency, developing sustainable product innovations and using recycled materials as well as by-products instead of primary raw materials in the production. more[...] login_required

The Author

Energy Efficiency Is Our Business

Susan Heuer, Armacell International Holding
Malte Witt, Armacell
Armacell Enterprise GmbH

How can we integrate the UN Global Compact into our day-to-day business with measurable results? For Armacell, the medium-sized industrial company headquartered in Münster, Germany, the answer lies not only in their products, which have already made a significant contribution to the way in which scarce resources are used. more[...]

The Author

Kampoeng Djamoe Organik Martha Tilaar

Nuning S. Barwa, Martha Tilaar Group
Martha Tilaar Group

Martha Tilaar Group is one of Indonesia’s foremost purveyors of innovative, high-quality beauty products and services. With its wide-ranging stable of sub-brands under the Martha Tilaar umbrella brand, the group offers an impressive array of beauty and well-being choices for women of all ages and income groups. While many of its products and treatments feature the ancient wisdom of traditional Indonesian herbal ingredients (jamu) and other natural plant extracts, Martha Tilaar also produces a wide variety of up-to-the-minute color cosmetics and skincare, body care and hair care products for the modern woman. more[...] login_required

The Author

Kampoeng Djamoe Organik Martha Tilaar

Nuning S. Barwa, Martha Tilaar Group

From its humble beginnings as a beauty salon in the early 1970s, the company has grown into an integrated, world-class, total beauty provider which exports its products all over the world. The company’s key brands have won numerous prizes and consistently achieved the country’s highest ratings for brand awareness, reflecting Martha Tilaar’s strong focus on beauty products specifically designed for the Eastern woman. more[...]

The Author

A Self-Assessment Tool to Accompany Our Suppliers in Their Sustainable Development Approach

Editorial Team

Since more than 15 years, Carrefour has shown its leadership through its commitments (1st French company to build a partnership with WWF to work on environmental issues in 1998, providing its own brand products suppliers with a sustainability self-assessment tool) and its product innovation (1st French retailer to propose a green energy offer at competitive price in 2009, organic healthcare range of own brand products in 2008). more[...] login_required

The Author

A Self-Assessment Tool to Accompany Our Suppliers in Their Sustainable Development Approach

Hélène Jessua
Carrefour Group

Within the framework of its sustainable development approach and its commitment to the respect for the Global Compact Principles regarding the environment (Principles 7, 8, and 9), Carrefour has created a sustainable development self-assessment tool to encourage its suppliers to implement a sustainability approach. Adapted to SMEs, this tool covers all the areas of a company at the social and environmental levels. more[...]

The Author

“1+3”: Building a responsible value chain

Lucy Li Jin Xiu, BASF
BASF SE

In China, there are over 32,000 chemical enterprises and many more if we consider the entire supply chain. Over 90% of the related companies are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which contribute strongly to the overall economic activities of the country but often find it hard to mobilise enough resources to effectively practise sustainable development. Thus, BASF in 2006 initiated a program called “1+3”, which mobilises and supports its partners and suppliers in China to improve their corporate social responsibility (CSR). more[...]

The Author

Fostering CSR – Contract Seating Manufacturer Kusch+Co

Ferdinand Filusch, Kusch & Co

This Sauerland-based family business offers convincing proof that traditional values can harmoniously coexist with a modern commitment to mankind and to nature. Corporate social responsibility is an intrinsic pillar of Kusch+Co’s corporate strategy. more[...] login_required

The Author

Advanced Search