Managing natural resources
Preserving biodiversity is a genuine concern for Saint-Gobain, since natural raw materials are present in almost all of its products.
Optimising water consumption
Water is mainly used for cooling its equipment. Saint-Gobain aims to limit its groundwater extraction as much as possible by increasing the use of closed-circuit systems.
Environmental timber policy
As part of Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment's Environmental Policy, the Timber Environmental Policy outlines our relevant legal requirements, regulations, codes of practice and moral obligations in relation to the buying and selling of timber.
Quarries
The Group operates more than 100 underground or opencast quarries throughout the world, two thirds of which are devoted to mining gypsum, mainly for producing plaster. During the extraction period, the effects on local residents and on the environment are reduced as much as possible. When extraction has been completed, a site is systematically cleaned up. The objective for open-cast quarries is to return the land to as close to its initial contours as possible and replant the entire zone. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Gypsum Division in France has, for example, redeveloped more than 200 hectares (495 acres) of open-cast quarries in the greater Paris region and planted more than 190,000 trees.
