Environmental responsibility

We minimise the environmental impact of our operations and use natural resources efficiently. We continuously improve our practices and guidelines. We make sure that all employees are aware of these guidelines and their implications for their work.

All of Algol’s business units are certified according to the ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 standards. Within Finland, Algol has signed a contract with Finnish Packaging Recycling RINKI Ltd and carries environmental responsibility also for the reutilisation and recycling of its packaging materials. Algol Chemicals is committed to the chemical industry’s international Responsible Care programme.

Energy use

Efficient energy use improves profitability and reduces environmental damage caused by emissions. Accordingly, we actively monitor energy consumption at our main location. By introducing new technical and lighting solutions at our head office, we have succeeded in reducing the consumption of electricity and district heating in recent years. The aim is to extend the monitoring of energy consumption to all Algol locations in the near future.

Emissions

Algol’s business creates material flows from our suppliers to our warehouses and our customers. Many Algol employees travel each day to provide technical services to our customers. We also travel to meetings with our customers and partners in all our markets, throughout Finland and internationally.

We rely on environmentally responsible logistics partners to get our products, supplies and raw materials to their destinations with the least possible environmental impact in accordance with the values of both Algol and our customers.

The Algol Group uses slightly over 120 vehicles, including production vehicles used for technical visits and company cars. We reduce the environmental impact by setting limits for the amount of emissions produced by our vehicles. We plan our driving and travel arrangements in order to reduce the environmental load caused by traffic.

Waste management

Responsible waste management reduces the environmental impact of our operations. The efficient sorting, recycling and reutilisation of waste saves natural resources while making our environment tidier and more enjoyable. We continuously monitor our recycling ration, and all Algol locations have their own local sorting guidelines.

Printing and paper consumption

Algol has monitored paper consumption among the company’s printers and employees for several years already, and the aim is to include all Algol locations in Finland and abroad in this reporting. A reduction in the amount of paper printouts is part of the Algol Group’s environmental policy.

Transportation

Local warehouses in all our markets enable transportation to be optimised. We use recognised providers of transportation services, and we always ensure that all of our cooperation partners have complied with all of their obligations in accordance with the Act on the Contractor’s Obligations and Liability when Work is Contracted Out. We carry our responsibility in environmental and safety issues by requiring all of our cooperation partners to commit to responsibility in the same way as we are committed. We have drawn up a requirement profile for road and intermodal transport that all of our cooperation partners must agree to and sign.

Social responsibility

As a family enterprise we foster entrepreneurship, smooth collaboration and the ability to react rapidly. Our committed and responsible employees work in accordance with our values.

Financial responsibility

By operating profitably we create the foundation for the continued operations of our company and the wellbeing of all employees.

Environmental responsibility

Code of Business Conduct

Algol strives to build long-term relations with customers, suppliers and other business partners based on the principles of mutual trust and confidence. We keep our business partners informed of the contents of this Code. We expect them to conduct their own business in a manner that does not conflict with this Code.

Responsibility deeds

Read about our responsibility deeds. We tell about our responsibility work through short stories that we call responsibility deeds. They describe our concrete deeds and provide illustrative examples of how responsibility is manifested within the Algol Group.

Indicators

We use responsibility indicators to report on our responsibility work.