Rockon is the sustainable construction material choice and your contribution to the circular economy
Transparency and our customers trust is key for us. We believe that a truly sustainable profile for building materials includes - combatting climate change; growing the circular economy; and safeguarding citizens’ well-being.
We are industry leaders; we value all these elements and our pioneering solutions don’t only grow the circular economy, they also enhance the life of those they touch.
| Our products’ sustainability profile is transparently documented | ||
| We have a fully closed looped production | ||
| Our ceiling tile and wall panels have the best-in-class indoor climate labels | ||
| Our acoustic solutions are rigorously tested and safe |
If you are looking to have a green building certification like LEED®, BREEAM®, WELL or similar, we can help you achieve your goals by delivering products and solutions with documented benefits. With the annual green building construction spending expected to grow 15% year over year (USGBC 2015), we want to simplify the time-consuming documentation process for building certifications.
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To make it easy to document the impact of using Rockfon ceiling tiles to achieve certification schemes or building projects with sustainability ambitions, we have developed our Product Sustainability Declarations.
They contain information around topics such as recycled content, air emission labels, transparent material ingredient disclosure, the safety of our fibres and responsible sourcing.
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To communicate the environmental profile of Rockfon products, we publish our Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).
The EPDs are product specific and 3rd party verified according to the standard EN15804 and hence give you full points in the building certification scheme assessments.
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Closed-loop recycling service and reclaimed construction materials
Rockcycle is our offer for you to easily contribute to the circular economy. Whether you are renovating or demolishing a building, separate used stone wool products and we will close-loop recycle them into new stone wool products
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Our stone wool core is a non-hazardous material. This is supported by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Our materials are regularly screened against the REACH candidate list by an independent third party. Still as service Rockfon provides a Safe Use Instruction Sheet.
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The sustainability KPIs for our production are part of the ROCKWOOL Group’s sustainability report. The report is informed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards.
The Groups performance on CO2 emissions is in addition regularly disclosed through international reporting platforms such as the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
Download our Sustainability ReportThe construction industry can divert 1-2 billion tonnes of waste, one-third of the global total waste that ends up in landfill, and we take that very seriously. Now, more than ever, it’s important that businesses and consumers recycle manufactured goods due to ever increasing populations and dwindling resources, making it even more important to know what happens to the materials after they are returned to the manufacturer or where the raw materials were initially sourced.
We are a circular solution on the market and we are proud that our stone wool and metal grid products are applicable for closed-loop recycling.
To move away from the current more linear consumption method, the circular economy reduces our material footprint by re-using materials efficiently and profitably. To have a resource efficient world we need to provide the most durable products while simultaneously using the least amount of resources.
| None of our factories send stone wool waste to landfill | ||
| Get a fully sustainable closed-loop product. Stone wool is a reusable material | ||
| Stone wool is a close-loop, fully recyclable material. We don’t down cycle, in fact, it can be recycled again and again... |
A complete understanding of the reuse options for a recycling stream (secondary material) needs to be considered when evaluating the sustainable profile of a product.
| We upcycle waste from other industries and create value, stopping them from being sent to landfill. We make use of waste material. | ||
| We don’t divert any scares resources away from other industries. | ||
| We heavily contribute to the circular economy. |
Stone wool is an abundant resource and a sustainable construction material. Discovered in Hawaii at the beginning of the nineteenth century, our stone is a natural by-product of volcanic activity that is melted and then spun into natural fibres.
Earth produces 38,000 times more stone material than is used to make ROCKWOOL stone wool annually.
We are not only the best-in-class when it comes to acoustics, we also positively contribute to the recycle quality and are certified best-in-class by the top organizations for safety. Given that we spend more than 90% of our time indoors, this is a considerably important concern.
Download the Rockfon Scorecard that shows how our solutions contribute to the WELL Building Standard.
ROCKWOOL stone wool products are safe to live with, safe to install and safe to manufacture.
| This is documented in hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles over more than 55 years. | ||
| The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) exempts stone wool from its list of “possibly cancer causing agents” | ||
| Our stone wool core is certified to comply with the Note Q for safe mineral wool fibres of EU Regulations (EC) No 1272/2008 and Directive 97/69/EEC |
Already today, no stone wool or metal offcuts waste leaves our factories for landfill, which means that we make use of our waste material, and our grid factory in Wijnegem, Belgium has 7000 solar panels on its roof, ensuring that 60% of our energy consumption is sourced from a renewable energy source.
For more detailed information on our carbon footprint, water footprint and further environmental impact categories, download our Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).
We want to improve water efficiency in our factories.
Water consumption goal: Improving water efficiency in factories by reducing water consumption by 20% by 2030.
We want to improve energy efficiency in our own office buildings.
Energy efficiency goal: Improving energy efficiency in own building stock by 75% by 2030.
We want to have zero fatalities and reduce our Lost Time Incidents.
Safety & well-being goal: Zero fatalities and reducing Lost Time Incidents (LTI) frequency rate by 10% annually
We want to reduce waste to landfill from production
Production waste to landfill goal: Reducing landfill waste from production by 85% by 2030.
We want to expand our product recycling services offering.
Recycling service goal: Expanding product recycling services to 30 countries by 2030.
We want to reduce our CO2 emission intensity in factories.
CO2 emissions goal: Reducing CO2 emission intensity in factories by 20% by 2030.
Today, stone wool improves people's work and well-being in all kinds of different ways. Our solutions are influential in making people’s lives richer, more productive and more beautiful.
