COP 22 - UN Compact - Flipbook - Page 43
CASE II
BUILDING A RESPONSIBLE
STONE FACTORY
WE KNOW THAT OUR STONE ASSORTMENT CAN BE A CHALLENGE
TO OUR AMBITION OF BEING A RESPONSIBLE COMPANY.
No well-established certification systems, like FSC®
for wood based materials, exist, to ensure traceability, proper working conditions, safety equipment
and development of the area of origin. In addition,
stone production is a resource-heavy process, with
high waste percentages and not least long, heavy
transportation distances.
To sum up. Stone production is far from sustainable.
However, we have a vision of establishing a more
responsible stone production, and we know the
potential is great.
With a long list of improvement projects, our initial
step were the decision, that all HORNs natural
stone suppliers will be assessed in 2022/23 in
order to ensure the most responsible product range
possible.
as we are very aware of our sourcing, but also
the fact that stone production have extremely high
waste percentages that calls for a need to combine our efforts and find
There are huge challenges when it comes to responsi- potentials for upcycling with
ble stone production. It is extremely resource intensive Denwood by HORN. Early
including transportation of heavy materials, and there may we therefore, finally,
is a great challenge in terms of ensuring that the raw turned the first sod to a
material have been produced under responsible
4500 sqm new production
conditions.
site. We will be looking into
Jakob Bressendorf, CEO of HORN solutions that enable collection, purification and recycling of rainwater and have received expert help to
Secondly, we finalized a decision which had
decide on the most CO2 neutral heating options,
been several years in the making, that we have to
through our Climate strategy made in cooperation
expand our production site to insource our stone
with Viegand Maagøe.
production, to enable more control of both inquiry
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