Sustainability Forum: Calvert City honored as sustainability ambassador 2019

With WACKER’s Sustainability Week 2019, Corporate Sustainability initiated activities across the Group to promote sustainable development. The event encouraged colleagues to develop ideas to improve or change sustainability aspects in the spirit of UN sustainability goal 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production. Examples of groupwide projects: using reusable packaging, taking a train or bicycle instead of the car, communicating via video conferences instead of booking flights, adapting production processes, promoting sustainable consumption, involving customers more in the sustainability dialog, leveraging digitalization to implement sustainable concepts in production, designing office and meeting rooms along sustainable lines and putting upcycling ideas into practice, such as repurposing industrial vats to make furniture.

Over 50 teams across the Group participated in the initiative with the polymers site, Calvert City in Kentucky, taking the sustainability ambassador 2019 title conferred by the Sustainability Council. The team committed to sustainability presented a variety of activities in a video. The basic idea was to either reuse the material themselves, or to donate it for the greater good of both the environment and society. This included little things like collecting coffee filters for composting or supporting the local scouting organization with donations.