Uponor has been awarded the Gold level rating by the global sustainability rating platform EcoVadis. The total score improved to 70 out of 100 (62 /100 in 2022: Silver level rating) putting Uponor among the top 6% of the 5000 companies in the plastic products manufacturing sector evaluated by EcoVadis globally.

All human activities create pollution for stormwater coming to the drains. Usually, it is polluted with building materials, traffic, industrial and commercial activities. How can we treat stormwater correctly? There are several methods of stormwater treatment. Rickard tells us about the best approaches of treating the polluted stormwater and how important it is to separate it from oil, heavy metals and other suspended solids before it reaches a water body.

As an industrial city and a port on an inlet of the Baltic Sea, Norrköping in southeastern Sweden strives to prevent pollutants from ending up in waterways. In an ongoing  pilot project, pollutants carried by stormwater run-offs will be captured in a massive, tailor-made Uponor Vault, a stormwater treatment chamber to ensure that the stormwater is purified before it reaches the Ljura Stream and finally the sea. 

Uponor, a leading global provider of sustainable water solutions for buildings and infrastructure, announces that its new, even more ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets were approved on 20 April 2023 by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The initiative also approved Uponor’s target of reaching Net Zero emissions by 2040. The approval means that SBTi’s independent experts have reviewed and validated the targets to be in line with the Paris agreement and latest climate science.

We talked with with Natalia Rincón – Co-Founder and CEO at CHAOS, an AI startup focused on location intelligence forecasts to improve the liveability of cities.  We discussed topics such as sustainable urban development and data-driven urban planning. 

Higest purity wastewater in Swedish village of Överklinten. When the existing ground-based wastewater system was condemned, there was an investigation as to an appropriate way of serving the 41 properties in the village, namely a preschool, a business, a hotel, two summer cabins and 36 permanent residences. An Uponor Infra WehoPuts treatment plant was chosen.

How to monitor water quality? In this interview we talked with Patryk Wójtowicz – Research Manager at Savonia University of Applied Sciences, and Water Network Modelling Expert in the field of environmental engineering. We talked about the organisations he’s involved in that could help bring technological innovation, and more accurate measuring and modelling, to the water utilities industry.