ASSA ABLOY

We want to set the standard for the world’s most innovative and well-designed access solutions. We exist to help people feel safe, secure, and experience a more open world. We organize our business around our values, beliefs and four strategic objectives to achieve that.

We strive for cost efficiency in everything we do

Everything we do starts with our people

ASSA ABLOY works to continuously strengthen sustainability within its operations. The sustainability work supports the Group’s vision and strategic priorities by helping to identify and manage business opportunities, as well as exploit the brand portfolio across diverse segments. It also helps to build a strong brand and a good reputation, which facilitate expansion into new markets.

ASSA ABLOY’s sustainability agenda was set in 2010. The priorities to reduce the Group’s environmental impact clearly support and inherently contribute to the strategy on market leadership and cost efficiency. The results of acting to fulfill priorities will reduce manufacturing costs in both the short and long term. They will reduce ASSA ABLOY’s exposure to new regulations and support continued expansion.

Globally, ASSA ABLOY is at the forefront of Environmental Sustainability and this focus and drive is reflected through ASSA ABLOY New Zealand.

Our Environmental Policy is a document that provides a focus for us to continue to decrease our environmental footprint. This focus is illustrated in our daily operations and the company-wide focus on reducing, reusing and recycling.

• Die Cast Machine Insulation - This initiative requires less energy to heat up and maintain the temperature of the die-cast machines as well as reducing heat loss.
• Energy Management System - To actively monitor our utilities' use and drive opportunities for cost reduction through peak demands.
• Air Compressors - Reduce peak loading on compressors to enable a smaller compressor to be leased. This translates to a reduction in running costs.
• LED lights - With occupancy and daylight harvesting for the cafeteria and offices.
• Renewable Energy – we have invested in Prime Energy’s Certified Renewable Energy product that allows us to purchase renewable energy certificates to verify that the amount of electricity we use from the grid is matched on an annual basis with electricity produced from Primer Energy’s certified renewable systems. Prime Energy being a provider of Toitū carbon-zero electricity means the electricity purchases they make from specific renewable generators have had their greenhouse emissions measured and independently audited. Any emissions unable to be eliminated from the electricity lifecycle are then offset through the purchase of internationally sourced carbon credits.
• Radiant Heating – to power our powder coating operations, it consumes a large portion of our total carbon footprint in our factory, so we are investigating options to utilise radiant heating which has about 50% less contribution to the carbon footprint.
• CO2 emissions - Currently we employ Location Based carbon reporting, based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.  As part of our process to commit to setting our Science Based Targets in 2022/23, we will also start to report Market-Based carbon reporting. We will then be able to see the benefit of our procurement of renewable energy on our carbon footprint.