Sustainability

Together with our customers, retailers and business partners, our mission is to deliver sustainable and profitable growth with as little climate impact as possible. Together, we lead the development of innovations to contribute to a better future.

Focus for the group

Innovations with a low climate footprint

For us, sustainability means developing innovations with a long-term perspective that minimizes environmental impact. Our industrial ideas help customers grow and drive society forward. In this way, we contribute to a sustainable future. Solid knowledge and a desire to make a difference are important parts when we develop our products, so they are more efficient and sustainable. For us, innovation is about contributing to a better future. Our mission is to try to create sustainable profitable growth.

Producer responsibility

At Atlas Copco Power Technique, we use the return collection system that applies in each country. In Sweden, the statutory producer responsibility applies in eight areas: packaging, tires, recycled paper, electronics, batteries, pharmaceuticals, vehicles weighing less than 3.5 tons and radioactive radiation sources.

Safety and health

For us, sustainability means ensuring that employees are safe and healthy and that operations are as efficient as possible. We use the Safety Pyramid as a method to map and follow up our safety work. It encourages employees to immediately report any incidents. In this way, we can take corrective action and maintain a preventive strategy for long-term security.

Download our Safety Data Sheets MSDS/SDS here.

Ethics

For us, sustainability is about growing in a way that is ethical, with zero tolerance for corruption throughout the value chain. We adhere to the highest ethical standards and require business partners to do the same. This stance reduces operational risks, enables growth and promotes a more ethical society.

Business partners

Atlas Copco adheres to the highest ethical standards and requires business partners to do the same. This stance reduces operational risks, enables growth and promotes a more ethical society.

Science-based goals

To ensure that we meet our climate ambitions, the Atlas Copco Group has set two science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the value chain. The science-based targets mean that we commit to taking action in line with the Paris Agreement targets, to keep the global temperature increase to well below 2°C.

Goal 1 - To keep the global temperature rise to a maximum of 1.5° C, we want to reduce emissions from field 1 and field 2 by 28% by 2030 (see picture).
Goal 2 - To keep the global temperature increase well below 2° C, we want to reduce emissions from field 3 by 28% by 2030 (see picture).

Global goals

Atlas Copco's focus areas for sustainable, profitable growth are implemented in daily work and supported by policies and tools for follow-up. The result is measured and followed up using key figures. The progress in relation to these key indicators contributes to the fulfillment of the UN's global goals for sustainable development. Through our core business and value chain, we influence several of the seventeen global sustainability goals.

Read how we can develop sustainable solutions in our Green Solutions Guide.