Our path to sustainability

We want to build a more durable world and bring sustainability to life. In urban spaces and wild places, we are rethinking how the world is built. Each day, we focus our business towards building a more sustainable world for those around us. This is how we sustain and protect our customers, people, and planet. Today and tomorrow.

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Built on three key pillars

Built to perform

Choosing resilient and timeless materials is important when building or renovating your home. Cedral products combine performance and aesthetics.

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Built to last

At Cedral, we maximise our innovation and sustainability efforts through each phase of the production process. We challenge ourselves to offer long-lasting products, which are easy to maintain whilst also being re-usable or recyclable.

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Built with care

From sourcing raw materials closer to our factories for cleaner transportation, to powering our manufacturing by 100% renewable electricity, we continue to push boundaries.

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A mindset for zero every day

"First and foremost, it’s a mindset which is based on daily routines where we question our environmental impact in everything we do."

- Gilles Gnaedig
Divisional Operations Manager

Built to perform

The impact of construction on the environment is undeniable. That’s why we want to create sustainable products. How? By 2030, we plan to invest 50% of our innovation resources towards circular and sustainable manufacturing.

Our products are built to be stable and long-lasting

Developed with a perfect mix of strength and durability without using any excess material

Designed to simplify our customers' lives, so they can build more beautiful, resilient and sustainable homes

Cedral products combine performance and aesthetics

Choosing resilient and beautiful materials is important when building or renovating your home. Cedral products are built to last and continue to look great; helping to create a durable home for many years to come.

Built to last

We strive for a sustainable mindset throughout our entire company culture and challenge our impact throughout everything we do. We believe in the power of people combined with modern technologies such as artificial intelligence. Enabling us to master our production processes even better to avoid causes of waste, the usage of excess material and to produce products that last for decades.

Cedral prioritizes sustainability in its culture and operations

We leverage modern technologies such as artificial intelligence to minimise waste and excess material

We have a goal of achieving zero waste to landfill and using at least 20% recycled content in our products by 2030

We aim to use 100% recycled material in our packaging by 2030

Built with care

Corporate social responsibility and sustainability is embedded in our entire company culture. In addition to manufacturing Cedral products, we also value the social aspect of sustainability. Our goal is to train all Cedral teammates on diversity, equity and inclusion and we ensure all genders are treated fairly.

Cedral minimizes transport emissions by sourcing raw materials as close to the factory as possible. In Europe, more than 70% of our raw materials are sourced less than 200km from our factories.

We are choosing greener energy with 74% of 2022 electricity from green sources. Our target is to secure 100% certified renewable power latest by 2030

Road to Sustainability 2030

We have two main focus areas on our path to sustainability: reduction of our carbon footprint on the one hand, and circularity on the other.

We aim for zero waste and fully recycled materials

We aim for recycled raw materials to be the standard, that there is zero production waste going to landfill by re-using all materials in our production process and that our packaging is free of plastics. Want to know more about our recycling processes at Etex?

STRIVE FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2050

Relentlessly challenging our carbon footpint. At Cedral, we engineer for perfomance. Our products are built to be stable and long-lasting. Developed with a perfect mix of strength and durability and without using any excess material. Our products are designed to simplify our customers' lives, so they can build more beatiful, resilient and sustainable homes. The unique combination of high quality ingredients ensures that Cedral homes stand the test of time.

Etex Group are Ecovadis approved

We're proud to declare that Etex, Cedral's parent company, has been awarded a silver medal from EcoVadis, placing Etex in the top 25% of all companies evaluated for sustainability.

Ecovadis assesses companies on their own and their supply chains' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) levels. It covers 21 CSR indicators across 4 main themes: Environment, Labour & human rights and sustainable procurement and scores companies based on their commitment to sustainable practices.

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Our commitment

Embedding sustainability into our identity

At Etex, we have already taken the first steps to become sustainable.

74% of our electricity come from renewable sources

We re-use waste materials in the production of new products

The longevity of Cedral helps the climate by conserving resources and reducing waste and related emissions

Cedral products are installed with reversible fixings, making the products ideal in a circular context

We transform roof and ground areas into resource-producing parts of our sites, installing solar panels for producing electricity

Goals for 2030

We continuously focus on improving our circularity and carbonation impact. By 2030, we aim for:

20%+ of recycled material

Zero waste to landfill

100% recycled packaging

50% of our innovation resources dedicated to sustainability

"Launched in 2022, our Road to Sustainability 2030 is a major milestone, with clear targets and early progress already made in the above-mentioned areas as well as well-being, diversity, equity and inclusion, decarbonisation and customer engagement."

- Bernard Delvaux, CEO of Etex