VELUX develops, manufactures and markets products that provide and control daylight and fresh air in buildings. Our activities involve the procurement and processing of natural resources. This places upon us a direct obligation towards the environment. Whilst upholding our tradition of quality and craftsmanship, built over more than half a century, and conducting our business in a profitable manner, we will continually assess and develop our environmental efforts.
We will:
• Design our products so that their environmental
impact during manufacture, use and disposal is diminished.
• Use raw materials, water and energy efficiently in order to
diminish our effect on the environment.
• Reduce emissions, waste and discharges from our activities.
• Maintain high standards of safety at work for our employees
and encourage sound attitudes toward the environment in
our field of activities.
• Co-operate with our suppliers, customers and other business
partners to achieve higher environmental standards.
• Remain alert to new opportunities enhancing the environmental
soundness of our products and manufacturing methods beyond
what is generally expected.
January 1997
Most window factories in VELUX have already implemented an environmental management system and they have been certificated to the international ISO 14001 standard. It is our ambition that all our factories should be certificated to ISO 14001 before the end of 2001.