Vulkoprin develops, implements, monitors and evaluates an organizational policy aimed at continuously reducing waste and using raw materials more efficiently.

Prevention: “Not-producing” is the best contribution to sustainability

Vulkoprin polyurethane wheels and technical moulded parts are made from raw materials that lead to a product with “durable” wear. In this way, the product remains operational longer than alternative PU’s and will therefore be replaced and reproduced less quickly.

Remanufacturing

Vulkoprin offers a service where the wheel is refurbished according to a certified process.

The worn polyurethane is removed from the wheel cores in an environmentally friendly way.

Recycling

Vulkoprin R&D, together with a number of key suppliers and customers, investigates the technical and economic possibilities to evolve towards a circular economy.

Recovery

The use of environmentally friendly energy sources, permanent monitoring and lean processes, guarantees that the company’s objectives are achieved with minimal impact on the environment.

Disposal

The Waste Framework Directive sets the basic concepts and definitions related to waste management, including definitions of waste, recycling and recovery.

The Waste Framework Directive lays down some basic waste management principles. It requires that waste be managed

without endangering human health and harming the environment
without risk to water, air, soil, plants or animals
without causing a nuisance through noise or odours
and without adversely affecting the countryside or places of special interest

It explains when waste ceases to be waste and becomes a secondary raw material, and how to distinguish between waste and by-products. The Directive also introduces the “polluter pays principle” and the “extended producer responsibility”.

The foundation of EU waste management is the five-step “waste hierarchy”, established in the Waste Framework Directive. It establishes an order of preference for managing and disposing of waste.

Certificates and consultancy

1. ISO 14001 certification

Vuolkoprin is ISO 14001 certified. This internationally accepted standard with requirements for an environmental management system was developed by the International Organization for Standardization. The environmental management system is used to develop an environmental policy appropriate to the organisation and to ensure its implementation.

2. ISO 45001 certification

ISO 45001:2018 specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, and gives guidance for its use, to enable organizations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and ill health, as well as by proactively improving its OH&S performance.

3. Ecovadis certification

EcoVadis helps you manage ESG risk and compliance, meet corporate sustainability goals, and drive impact at scale by guiding the sustainability performance improvement of your company and your value chain https://ecovadis.com/