2025-06-25 - Hultafors group

Hultafors Group Releases 2024 Sustainability Progress Report

Delivering on our commitments, shaping our future

In last year’s Sustainability Report, we committed to integrating sustainability deeper into our business — backed by science, driven by collaboration, and aligned with our ambition to grow responsibly. In 2024, we took important steps from intent to implementation. This year marked the launch of our new strategic framework, built on the vision of “Improving how the world works”. It sets a clear direction for the Group, aligning our brands behind a shared ambition: to deliver high-quality solutions for professionals while contributing to a more sustainable world.

Among the five long-term development perspectives in our strategy, Circular Business is now firmly established as a key strategic long-term goal. I’m encouraged by how actively our teams are putting this strategy into practice — across functions, brands and markets. Sustainability is no longer a separate track; it is integrated into how we innovate, collaborate, and grow.

From commitment to action: SBTi-approved climate targets

A major milestone in 2024 was the official approval of our climate targets by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). We are now net zero committed, in line with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.*

These goals give us a clear and science-based foundation for climate action. All business units have begun developing transition plans to meet them, identifying key levers and addressing challenges specific to their operations and value chains.

Circularity: A long-term strategic direction

We’ve also advanced our efforts to build circular business models — a transformation that will take time but is essential to our long-term sustainability. Fristads’ reuse and repair service is now operating at scale across customer segments. W.steps’ certified aluminium ladders have an environmental footprint with radically reduced CO₂ emissions — 75% lower than the global standard. And across our brands, we’re seeing concrete actions to reduce waste, extend product life, and create value for customers through sustainable solutions.

Looking ahead

We move forward with a stronger foundation, a clear direction, and growing alignment across the Group. While much remains to be done, I am confident in our ability to deliver — guided by science, driven by innovation, and united by a shared purpose.

Sustainability is not an add-on. It is central to how we build a resilient, responsible and successful business — now and into the future.

2025-06-25 - Hultafors group

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