URSA's commitment to sustainability and social responsibility
URSA's commitment to sustainability and social responsibility
At URSA, our CSR approach is centered on promoting energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions, and advancing resource conservation through circularity. Our environmental strategy focuses on minimizing our impact with sustainable production practices, while significantly reducing waste sent to landfills. We are equally committed to our people, fostering a healthy, safe, and inclusive work environment, offering fair wages, growth opportunities, and a culture of support. Additionally, we extend our responsibility to local communities, actively contributing to economic development and enhancing social well-being
Road to Sustainability
Our commitments by 2030
Carbon emissions
Reduce Scope 1 and 2 CO₂ emissions intensity by 35%
Recycled wool
80% recycled and reprocessed glass in mineral wool production
Waste minimization
Zero landfill waste for glass mineral wool and XPS production leftovers
Building a Better, Safer Workplace and Community
We aim to foster energy-efficient housing, promote diversity, ensure workplace safety, and enhance employee satisfaction and development.
Health & Safety: a key value for URSA
Health & Safety: a key value for URSA
At URSA & Etex, Safety is not only a priority, Safety is a value. Our goal is for everyone working in or by URSA to return safely back home to their families. Our Vision – Zero Injuries at the workplace.
To achieve this, we are working in three key workstreams focused on enhancing health and safety:
- Safety Work Environment: Keeping sites free of high-risk areas, ensuring a safe working environment by improving our machinery, equipment, and workstations.
- Safety Governance: Constantly updating our Risk Assessments and rolling out safety standards and specifications.
- Behavioural safety: Over and above having a safe workstation and safe procedures, at URSA, it is key to have a strong safety culture. How safe we do things around URSA. Everyone in the plant is engaged and feels personally accountable for his own and others safety.
Our motto - “Safety is key is up to you and me”
Our motto - “Safety is key is up to you and me”
We aim for every URSA teammate to become a Safety Leader, where everyone with his/her experience and professionalism takes care of his/her teammates either on our premises, commuting to work or in an off-site working environment.
Our DE&I policy: fostering a culture of teamwork, diversity, and equal opportunity
Our DE&I policy: fostering a culture of teamwork, diversity, and equal opportunity
As a member of the Etex group, we actively contribute to the realization of our shared strategy. Our culture is all about teaming up, motivating, inspiring, and taking care of each other. We know that our success depends on our talented and diverse employee base. We are convinced that diversity of thinking helps us to deliver a strong and sustainable performance.
It is also essential for us that everyone feels part of the team. In this spirit, we are committed to equal opportunities and zero tolerance for discrimination.
Fostering trust and transparency
Fostering trust and transparency
We are dedicated to maintaining clear processes, accountability, and ethical business practices to build trust with stakeholders. The Etex Way is our code of conduct, serving as our guiding framework for how we operate. It emphasizes integrity in all aspects of our work—promoting sustainability, rejecting child labor, ensuring fairness for all, and contributing to the well-being of communities, among many other ethical commitments.
Advancing Our Decarbonization Goal
An ambitious target: reduce the intensity of our CO2 emissions by 35% compared to 2018 by 2030.
Embracing Circular Economy
Circular economy is ingrained in our DNA, and at URSA we demonstrate this every day. We work with recycled materials to produce glass wool and XPS.