Sustainability

Accelerating our contribution to a healthier and more sustainable future

Mission

We strive for a cleaner world. While we contribute to more sustainable and safer food production environments, we minimise our environmental footprint by using renewable energy and recycled and renewable materials wherever possible. We care about our people and maintain the highest health, safety, and business practice standards.

Environment

We are committed to reducing our environmental impact and we continually work toward finding sustainable solutions.

People and ethics

We put our people first, striving to maintain a safe, healthy, and inclusive workplace where people can continually grow.

Documentation

Sustainability Roadmap

To achieve our goals by 2030, we have outlined projects, milestones, and key performance indicators. These are all gathered in our Roadmap.

Sustainability Policy

Our Sustainability Policy, which includes our Roadmap, guides us on how to integrate sustainability into our organisation and our daily operations on a continual basis.

Annual Sustainability Progress Report

Each of Vikan’s Annual Sustainability Progress Reports contains the prior year’s outcomes along with our commitments for the coming year.

New initiatives and projects

Product take-back programme

Discover Vikan’s Hygiene Tool Take-Back Programme - our sustainability initiative to reduce waste and improve resource efficiency in tool disposal.

Reducing packaging & single-use plastics

Two of our primary areas of focus are aimed at minimising the amount of materials we use and lowering our CO2 emissions.

Food safety education

Learn key hand washing practices for the food industry - vital hygiene lessons from COVID-19 that help prevent cross-contamination and food safety risks.