Sustainability
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With our luminaires, we help mitigate light pollution, protect biodiversity, and support communities through circular design and intelligently applied technology.
Backed by transparent Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) documentation and products created with circular design in mind, we support our partners to meet climate goals, extend product life, e. g. with refurbishment solutions and encourage positive change in every space we light.
Platinum EcoVadis Score
After silver and gold follows platinum: the Zumtobel Group has been awarded an EcoVadis Platinum medal for the first time, achieving the highest distinction from the independent sustainability rating platform. The Zumtobel Group has consistently been evaluated by EcoVadis across the entire group since 2016 and has progressed from Silver to Gold over the last ten years. By achieving Platinum, the Zumtobel Group now ranks among the top 1% of all companies assessed by EcoVadis. The continuous improvement in the overall score confirms the lighting group’s sustainable development.
Reducing carbon footprint
LIGHTING USE OVER TIME
- Reducing the energy impact of existing lighting infrastructure is a key sustainability challenge.
- Implementing dimming controls, motion and daylight sensors, and switching to greener electricity sources can significantly cut emissions and lower environmental impact over time.
MANUFACTURE AND PRODUCTION
- Sustainable manufacturing demands increasingly improved design and production strategies.
- By prioritising component reuse, solution upgrades, recyclable materials, and designing for remanufacture at end-of-life contributes to reducing waste and maximising resource efficiency.
Our Circular Design Philosophy
The way we implement Circular Design Rules (CDRs) empowers us to improve circularity across all new lighting products. Products can achieve one of four performance levels, each linked to specific circularity goals.
It’s not about perfection, it’s about progress, learning, and discovering opportunities along the journey.
Sustainable Solutions
Lighting solutions should improve the way a space functions, but it is also important that those solutions provide enhanced sustainability credentials throughout the product or technology's lifetime. Traditionally, those sustainability credentials have been met when the energy-savings box has been ticked. But that's no longer enough. How can we go further?
Understanding the complex balance between humans, local biodiversity and the night sky enabled our research and development teams to get this balance right. With so many challenges arising from outdoor applications, we set about developing new technologies that could further enhance the sustainability credentials of outdoor lighting solutions. NightTune and Variable Light Distribution are two of those technologies. They work by providing a warmer light and specialised optics to ensure nocturnal wildlife, the night sky and human safety do not pay the price for improving energy savings. This wider view on sustainability, which goes beyond the scope of LED technology, has been at the heart of our innovation and development over recent years, and is something we build on each and every day.
Actions
Our intention is to become your partner of choice when it comes to achieving the sustainability goals of any lighting project. This means being as transparent as possible and helping you with the required Lighting Energy Numerical Indicator (LENI) or embodied carbon calculations. We commit to continuing our work with our suppliers on sustainable procurement, offer our employees an excellent place to work, and excite our customers not only for our light but also for our sustainable products, services and data.
We have subscribed to twelve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The goals we have committed to encompass both business improvement aspirations and customer amplification potential. Our ambition is to become your partner of choice, and through sustainable technologies, SDG alignment, and tailoring our achievements and goals to specific lighting applications, we can help you achieve your sustainability ambitions.
Partnerships
One of the SDG we’ve committed to is ‘Partnerships for the goals’. We work with a variety of international bodies which, in turn, contribute to designing standards and guidelines.
We also partner with leaders in areas such as dark skies and EPD providers to ensure we produce the right solution for our customers, the environment and local ecology.