Geberit prepares living spaces for a sustainable world

With its engineering-advanced products that enhance quality of life, Geberit plays a leading role in the sanitary ware sector's sustainability projections. Geberit develops its entire product range in line with durability principles, with innovative and high-quality standards; this strategy contributes to the circular economy through the standards it has established. Faithful to the Ecodesign principle since 2007, the brand has developed and optimized more than 180 new products, and since 2015 has sourced approximately 79 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources. Following a binding sustainability strategy for over 30 years, the brand ranks in the top 5 percent of the EcoVadis Sustainability Ranking through its work in this direction. The Swiss sanitary ware giant Geberit, which has long adopted resource conservation through products that enable sustainability as one of its main agenda items, continues its nature protection strategy by establishing a balance between economic, environmental and social factors. Structuring its sustainability strategy on long-lasting products, water-saving technologies, certified manufacturing and logistics, conscious resource use, compact packaging and reduced carbon emissions, the brand also makes significant contributions to the United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals.

Geberit recycled 7,200 tons of plastic waste in 2023

According to its 2023 Sustainability Report, Geberit reduced absolute environmental impact by 17.6 percent in resources and circular economy, and succeeded in exceeding the annual target of 5 percent by reducing environmental impact by 13.4 percent based on net sales adjusted by currency. In the past year, Geberit ensured internal recycling of approximately 7,200 tons of plastic waste from production. Increasing the volume of purchased green electricity by 16.5 GWh to 128.3 GWh, Geberit achieved 2,940,000 m³ of water savings through flushing systems in 2023 alone. Through the use of water-saving flushing systems, it has enabled approximately 34,940,000 m³ of water savings from 1998 to the present. (compared to 9-liter model flushing volume) By 2030, at least 30 percent of plastic packaging will contain recycled material. Consistently applying the Ecodesign principle since 2007, Geberit has to date developed or optimized more than 180 new products, thereby making each new product more ecological than its predecessor without compromising on quality, functionality or durability. Geberit products have decades of service life as a result of high-quality materials used and strict quality standards applied, while the brand also guarantees spare parts supply for up to 50 years for all replaceable mechanical parts of the concealed cistern and control panel. The brand also uses plastic as efficiently as possible to produce high-quality and durable products, recycling plastic waste and reusing it internally. Aiming to minimize packaging material use, the brand systematically improves packaging designs to reduce material use, and targets that by 2030 packaging contains at least 30 percent recycled material and 80 percent of materials used are recyclable.