Circularity

Raw materials are essential to our operations, and addressing the challenges of raw material use and waste generation is a priority. Our circularity roadmap – tailored to each platform – tackles these issues through circular content in design, zero waste to landfill, take-back and reuse initiatives, reduction of virgin plastic and innovation. At the end of 2024, we:

• Recycled over 590,000 tonnes of waste material, primarily gypsum, glass and XPS.
• Use 34% more recycled gypsum compared to our 2018 baseline. This confirms our position as a global leader in largescale recycled gypsum usage for high-performance plasterboard, with some plants achieving recycled gypsum ratios above 35%.
• Aligned with the European Union action plan on recycled plastic, we began monitoring the usage of recycled plastic and upgraded our 2030 ambition to reduce virgin plastic consumption by 30% versus 20% previously.
• 30 sites sent zero waste to landfill.
• Dedicated 56% of our resources to sustainability, focusing on the continuous substitution of virgin materials with recycled-based alternatives and reducing our CO2 footprint.

In 2024, the Siniat UK team re-introduced the innovative Siniat Universal Board™—a single-layer system designed for common healthcare and education applications with a third-party certified level for recycled content. It offers a balanced combination of:

• performance, meeting impact, acoustic and fire performance requirements;
• durability, ensuring long-lasting strength; and
• sustainability, as it now contains at least 27% postconsumer recycled gypsum making it the first plasterboard in the UK with certified recycled content.

This achievement marks a key milestone in our Road to Sustainability 2030, supporting our goal to consistently integrate over 20% circular raw materials globally. Its single-layer design simplifies specifications and quality assurance by reducing wall types on-site, while delivering on performance and technical requirements. Certified by Annex B partition testing, it also includes an EPD, thereby contributing to the environmental.