Sustainability in Brunvoll

With a proud and long history as a cornerstone company, contributing to the local community has been a major priority for Brunvoll. Our products have always competed in terms of reliability and energy efficiency. As a manufacturing company in a high-cost country, continuous improvement in productivity has been necessary. Efforts to maintain and enhance our competitiveness have rarely been made without an inherent positive effect on our ESG impact. Still, there has been little need to quantify these effects up until now. This has changed radically. Since 2021, we have been quantifying and reporting on material ESG topics. We have positive and negative impacts across our entire value chain, and we see both challenges and opportunities in the much-needed transition to a net-zero economy.

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Brunvoll value chain

1. Customer Collaboration

We listen to our customers and collaborate to offer energy efficient and durable solutions for current and future needs.

2. Materials and resources

We aim to source with minimal impact and increase recycled content of our input materials.

3. Manufacturing, assembly and testing

We aim to maximise resource efficiency and reduce waste.

4. Ship to customer

We aim to limit the use of trucks and rather use waterways if possible.

5. User phase

We belive in close interaction with customers after delivery to ensure long lifetime and optimised operation.

5.1 Service and maintenance

Our products are built for a long lifetime, enabled by proper service and maintenance. Our ambition is predictive maintenance and remote diagnostics in all new systems.

5.2 Upgrade

We seek product upgrades rather than replacement to meet new requirements.

5.3 Learn and advise

We use data-driven insight to provide better guidance and product development.

6. End of life

Our products are designed to outlive the vessel, and the potential for refurbishment and reuse is high. At end of life, the products can be recycled.

Our sustainability roadmap

Placing our business on the right side of history - creating value for our stakeholders while chasing the goal of net zero.

We welcome all initiatives aimed at improving the quality and credibility of sustainability disclosure. To be in line with existing requirements, we have created a roadmap to visualize our plans to deliver on reporting requirements as well as sustainability performance.

2019

Baseline

2022

Formalized our efforts and published our first Sustainability report (for 2021).

The first time we communicated our performance and ambitions within sustainability. Focus on employee wellbeing, materiality assessment, sustainability report and the Norwegian Transparency Act, while  decreasing our direct emissions by 67%.

2023

Collected and started reporting on carbon emissions for our value chain (Scope 3). Ensured transparency in our supply chains (Norwegian Transparency Act).‍

Directed increased efforts into measuring and managing our indirect emission from the value chain, enabling us to make informed choices when chasing emission reductions. In parallel, we focused on our demands and expectations towards our partners in our Supplier Code of Conduct, where supply chain transparency is at the core.

2024

Completed climate reporting on emission factors within Scope  1, 2 and 3. We continued our employee motivation, development efforts and our supply chain transparency.

2025

We have decided to apply for the Science-Based Targets initiative, and in cooperation with NCE iKuben in Molde, we are working on our commitment letter to the SBTi platform. We will also conduct a double materiality assessment.

Working on our emissions reductions, 2025 will be the year we pay extra attention to improving data quality on sustainability.

2026 - 2030

Reveal findings from double materiality assessment in 2026. Perform, improve and communicate on sustainability in line with ambitions and targets.

Measuring, improving, and reporting on sustainability will take us on a path to significant emissions reductions by 2030. Decreasing our negative impacts while continue to create value for customers, people and communities are top priorities.

2050

Net zero