Sustainability report 2017

We are Grundfos

Follow our sustainability journey, from the story of our founder Poul Due Jensen, stakeholders engagement to our sustainability strategy.

Letter from the CEO

The year brought optimistic signs of global economic growth, along with more concerning indicators of instability. Find out what our CEO has to say about our 2017 sustainability efforts.

Material areas

The progress report is organised according to the main ways that we target responsibility: Green at heart, passionate about water, responsible, ethics and integrity.

Green at heart

This chapter is divided into three sub material topics: Energy-efficient products and solutions, product life cycle, and environmental footprint.

Passionate about water

This chapter is split into the two material topics: Water for all, with sub-sections Water2Life and Lifelink; and Partnerships for water.

Responsible

This chapter is divided into: Occupational health and safety, training and development, employee satisfaction, diversity and inclusion, local communities.

Ethics and integrity

This chapter has sections on legal compliance, with sub-sections for anti-corruption and competition law, and human rights and forced labour, with sub-sections for each of these.

Past reports

2016 Grundfos Sustainability Report

2015 Grundfos Sustainability Report

2014 Grundfos Sustainability Report

2013 Grundfos Sustainability Report

2012 Grundfos Sustainability Report

For more information about this year's report, click here.

New business model in Cambodia

In this new business model, the money that customers save on water and energy is used to pay for the new system and pump solutions.

“The concept is ideally suited to countries where our solutions have significant impact, but where customers might appreciate the limited up-front investment required, such as Cambodia,” explains Chee Meng Tan, Regional Business & Product Portfolio Director in Water Utility, APREG.

46 water kiosks in Kenya

The Grundfos Lifelink team continued building partnerships to bring sustainable access to safe water for low-income communities. We finalised the implementation of 46 automated solar powered water kiosks for 11 water projects in Kenya.

Code of Conduct training

With a training rate of more than 85%, our 2017 global Code of Conduct training highlighted issues such as preventing corruption, including bribery and facilitation payment, conflict of interest, observing human rights and avoiding discrimination.

Grundfos and the SDGs

We've always put a focus on sustainability. After we mapped how the SDGs affect different parts of our business and completed a gap analysis, we have identified four priority SDGs within each of our strategic impact areas towards 2020.

CEO Water Mandate 2017

Read our CEO Water Mandate for more stories on our water-related initiatives in 2017.