CEO LETTER
At Kets we create value for all our stakeholders by designing, devoloping and producing sustainable products. With our ongoing sustainable projects, we go far beyond our social and corporate responsibilities by creating new social and economic values. We design our products and services for the world, we want to live in. To achive this, we put sustainability at the core of our business strategy. To this end, we will strive to produce environment, nature and human compatible projects in future studies on sustainability. As your strategic partner we will focus on helping our costumers to achive together their sustainability goals.
⇒ In 3 years 25% of our products will be recycled
⇒ In 5 years 50% of our products will be recycled
⇒ In 3 years 25% CO2, reduction will be achieved
KETS IS MOVING TOWARDS CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Moving from linear economy to circular economy also means transforming how we are doing business at KETS. To deliver our brand’s promise to improve life for all our stakeholders we are always on the lookout for ways of increasing the sustainability of our operations and our products so that we can help preserve our natural life and resources for future generations. We strongly believe that transforming our operations in a way that fits to circular economy will also strengthen our brand’s competitiveness in a future with finite resources . All the projects we have started at KETS are in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
We create values for all our stakeholders
EMPLOYEES: We empower our employees through employee development and training projects to achieve personal excellence, offering knowledge and opportunities in a safe environment.
ENVIRONMENT: We are increasing the sustainability of our operations and products every year so that we can help preserve our natural life and resources for future generations.
COMMUNITY: For long term social, economic and environmental health of our world, KETS emphasis on the sustainability of major education projects that engage underdeveloped countries communities in order to catalyse self sustaining growth and break the cycle of poverty.
We Contribute To Un’s Sustainability Development Goals Through Our Sustainability Development Projects
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS & COMMITMENTS
A Global problem can only be tackled by setting and following global goals. Among with European Green Deal, we get our inspiration from the 17 points mentioned in the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development program. This is a holistic approach centered around being responsible to the people and the world we live in. We encourage ourselves to fight not only with the environmental issues but also poverty, inequality, and hunger that are actually all linked together. For this reason, we align and also underline our achievements and our goals with reference from one or a few of these 17 points.
GOAL7: AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
SOLAR ENERGY
– 1,6 MWh electricity produced from clean energy
– 9,2 tones/year CO2 emissions decreased
COMPRESSOR WASTE HEAT RECOVERY PROJECT
– 55,000 m3 Natural Gas consumption saved
– 114 tones/year CO2 emissions decreased
GOAL9: INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
ENERGY GENERATING FROM WASTE HOT WATER HEAT RECOVERY PROJECT
– 80,000 m3 Natural Gas consumption saved
– 351 tones/year CO2 emissions decreased
HIGH-TECH INNOVATION PROJECTS
We know how the environmental impacts of the products we consume can be reduced by increasing their durability/ expanding their lifecycle. As a company strategy we promote longer-lasting materials and products to increase resourcefulness and sustainability across our product groups. To make this strategy succceed we have developed technologies that expand the lifecyle of our products.
GOAL11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION
We empower our employees through employee development and training projects to achieve personal excellence, offering knowledge and opportunities in a safe environment.
SELF SUSTAINING GROWTH PROJECTS
For long term social, economic, and environmental health of our world, KETS emphasis on the sustainability of major education projects that engage nderdeveloped countries communities in order to catalyse self sustaining growth and break the cycle of poverty.
GOAL12: RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
HIGH EFFICIENCY ENGINE USE PROJECT
By using high-efficiency production systems at our manifacturing plant
– 380,000 K WH electricity consumption saved
– 189 tones/year CO2 emissions decreased
USING DISCARDED YARNS & FABRICS AS A RAW MATERIAL
Committed to pursuing sustainable production, KETS has developed a new technique to ensure the continued sustainability of KETS’ waste of polyester, polyamide and acrylic. Using discarded yarns and fabrics as raw material to pursuing sustainable production, KETS has taken up the challenge of developing “A Roadmap for Recycling Various Types of Waste Materials from the Production Process” for reusing the discarded fabrics.
GOAL13: CLIMATE ACTION
REDUCTION OF CO2
– 743 tones of CO2 emission reduction has been achieved in total
GOAL14: LIFE BELOW WATER
PLANT WASTE WATER RECOVERY PROJECT
We saved;
37,200 tones clean water by reusing our treated waste water and
80 tones/year of CO2 emissions decreased
ROLEFIN
Rolefin; a brand of KETS is the first textile-recycled olefin yarn developed to produce furniture fabrics that has been converted from pre-consumer textile wastes consists of by-product materials from fiber, yarn and fabrics.
Rolefin brings textile waste to new use, with zero water consumption, less energy use in production processes.
OUR CERTIFICATES DEMONSTRATE OUR SUSTAINABILITY COMMITMENTS
