Total Sustainability Innovations

Facing today's challenges and preparing for tomorrow

In its quest for sustainable development, Bostik strives to achieve economic prosperity while protecting the environment and improving quality of life, now and for generations to come.

In its quest for sustainable development, Bostik strives to achieve economic prosperity while protecting the environment.

Bostik pursues its role in meeting these challenges through five bold continuous improvement action plans:

• Develop innovative solutions which meet and anticipate the needs of present and future generations by contributing to energy conservation and reducing the health and environmental footprint of its products
• Support its customers in improving the environmental impact of their products and processes
• Minimise the environmental impact of its operations
• Devote extensive resources to Research and Development and innovation management
• Convert knowledge from upstream chemical industry to end users needs, creating innovation through the whole value chain.

These commitments are formal components of Bostik’s long term strategic plan in order to achieve continuous improvement in our contribution to sustainable development.

Life Cycle Thinking

Thinking in terms of product life cycle is essential in the path to sustainability by expanding the focus from the production phase to the whole product or system life cycle, thus reducing pollution by minimizing the environmental impacts at the source.

Adopting Life Cycle Thinking in the development and application of its sustainability strategies means developing the use of Life Cycle Assessment and integrating Eco-design principles in product development process. Using this approach, Bostik can continually improve the environmental impact of its new products and services. An increasing number of Bostik new products and systems are now developed taking into account health and environmental impacts throughout the whole life cycle.

Product Life Cycle Concept