One of the world’s leading nonwoven fabric-tech companies, Nonwovenn is setting a new industry benchmark for sustainability by integrating market-leading eco-friendly policies across its operations. The business is now seeing impressive results after two years of implementation.
Nonwovenn has reported that it has sent zero waste to landfill for a second year running, instead converting it to ‘Refuse Derived Fuel’ through a service partner, which generates half a million kWh of renewable energy for use by highly energy-intensive industries. The business also avoids 1,020 tonnes of CO2 emissions by recycling its waste in this way.
Following the achievement, Nonwovenn has created a detailed sustainability strategy that will see the business adopting science-based targets in 2025 with the aim of meeting the criteria for the Environmental Product Declaration Certification which is central to the goal of reaching net-zero by 2035.
In addition, Sustainability Director Prabhat Mishra was recently commended by the International Green Apple Awards for driving sustainable waste management in the manufacture of specialist fabrics, and presented Nonwovenn’s sustainability agenda to EDANA, which received an overwhelmingly positive response.
Commenting on Nonwovenn’s sustainability focus, Prabhat Mishra, sustainability director said; “Sustainability is at the heart of Nonwovenn, our business purpose is ‘doing good to do well’. We believe that whilst we continue growing as a business, we need to ensure that we do so sustainably, with a focus on exceeding the targets set – not just meeting them.”
“To have our efforts recognised by the International Green Apple Awards was fantastic, as it helps push us to work towards the next level of sustainability. We hope businesses across the industry see the work we are doing and look to improve their own processes to boost sustainability across the entire nonwoven sector.”
Nonwovenn chairman, David Lamb added; “When Prabhat first joined the team in 2020, we knew he was going to bring some amazing practices to the business, but he has far exceeded our expectations, transforming us into industry leaders for sustainability. We have some big plans for the coming years to ensure we stay at the forefront of sustainability.”
