Strategy 2030: We go beyond.

Frontrunner in safety and sustainability

A key area of Metso's ‘We go beyond.’ strategy is improving occupational safety. Safety is an integral part of Metso's culture, and our new Start with safety mindset focuses on preventing workplace injuries and continuously improving safety performance. We actively engage employees and promote stopping, talking, observing, and sharing safety practices to foster proactivity in safety.

Our purpose is to enable sustainable modern life. Our customers are demanding more efficient and sustainable solutions to reach their ambitious sustainability targets and to meet the fast-growing demand for strategic raw materials. As a major equipment supplier, we can create the biggest positive change by working together with our customers for more sustainable processes.

We help our customers achieve their sustainability targets by offering more energy and water-efficient equipment with capability to utilize renewable electricity where feasible, and extending the life of equipment as well as keeping materials in circulation This also helps in reducing carbon emissions. 

At the core of our sustainable offering are the Metso Plus products and services that can help our customers achieve their climate, water, recyclability or other sustainability goals.

Our Metso Plus portfolio already includes over 100 products, and our aim is to keep expanding and improving this offering by continuously innovating. We target 80% of our R&D spend on Metso Plus development by 2030.

We have a zero-harm approach to health and safety. With our comprehensive safety agenda and continuous actions, we aim to improve the safety of our employees, partners, customers, contractors and other stakeholders. The safety of our products is one of the key drivers in our research and development work. Our safety promise doesn’t end with the product. We have a range of solutions to eliminate safety risks at customer operations and improve customers’ operational performance over the full life-time of our products.

We have set a target to reach net-zero CO₂ emissions in our own operations by 2030. To achieve net zero, we are actively pursuing a range of decarbonization initiatives across our global operations, focusing on reducing our reliance on carbon-based energy sources within our own facilities. We are also targeting that 30% of the direct supplier spend by the end of 2025 is with partners who have set Science-Based CO₂ emissions targets.

Read more in our sustainability section.