Safe & Sustainable by Design

In 2022, Gurit started to formalise a Sustainable Design approach for the (re)development of products. It is a process that involves every stage of a product’s life and aims to further steer our innovation towards greener products to ultimately minimise the impact on health, climate and the environment during sourcing, production, use and end-of-life of our materials. As part of this commitment we have identified the EU’s SSbD framework as suitable for us to measure and track our Sustainable Design process.

During 2023 Gurit aims to develop the principles of SSbD and integrate them into its development process. A key goal is to substitute or minimise the production and use of substances of concern, in line with and beyond upcoming regulatory obligations. However, Gurit's development process aims to extend beyond safer chemicals and lower carbon footprint products by encompassing customer uses, product lifespan and end of life considerations, many of which are unique to the composites industry.

Sustainable Design aligns with and will receive input from across the Gurit sustainability workstreams, such as Safety First, Resource Utilisation, Responsible Supply Chain and Circularity/End of Life.

Extract from Gurit Sustainability Report 2022.