Gerflor's Commitments for Sustainable Development

First commitment for 2025, we want to drastically reduce our carbon footprint: 20% reduction in kg of CO2 per m2 of product (calculated on scopes 1 & 2 defined in the greenhouse gas protocol). 

This objective is in line with the reduction of our carbon emissions: between 2016 and 2019 our emissions have already reduced by 16%. 

What is our strategy to achieve this? To limit our carbon footprint at all stages of the product’s life cycle, particularly on raw materials, durability and ease of maintenance. 

On average, our flooring currently contains 25% recycled materials. By 2025 we hope to reach 30%. 

The recycled material comes from industrial waste, installation off-cuts or end-of-life products, mainly collected through our Second Life program. 

What can we guarantee? That integrating these recycled components in no way reduces the quality and performance of the floor coverings. 

By 2025 we want to recycle 60,000 tonnes of materials per year, compared to 50,000 in 2020. 

How do we go about meeting this challenge? 

Our two collection channels: 

• Second Life:  Gerflor collection of “clean” installation off-cuts and end-of-life products (link) 
• PVC Next:  reprocessing of non-standard end-of-life products (link) 

A recycling plant specializing in flexible flooring 

• Named Floor To Floor, this plant is the result of the co-investment of Gerflor and Paprec, leader in recycling 
• It sorts the collected off-cuts and transforms them into granules which are then reintegrated into the composition of new Gerflor products