SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability is deeply embedded in Tarmo Erkale’s everyday business

Embracing sustainable energy isn’t just an option; it’s our responsibility to ensure a brighter, cleaner future for all.

Tarmo Erkale is a frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries globally. We improve our customers’ energy and water efficiency, increase their productivity, and reduce environmental risks with our product and service expertise.

Sustainability is our strategic priority and we are committed to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. We operate efficiently and in a responsible manner, and take into consideration the environment, safety and well-being of people and the planet. Our biggest impact is through our customers when they use our technologies and services that help them to achieve their own sustainability and productivity targets.

Our sustainability agenda

In 2023, Tarmo Erkale updated its sustainability agenda based on a double materiality analysis. The renewed agenda comprises the following focus areas: Planet Positive offering and innovations for our customers, Tarmo’s people and culture, as well as environmental efficiency in our own operations, and responsible supply chain. Responsible business conduct is considered the foundation of our sustainability approach.

We aim to minimize our environmental footprint by reducing environmental impact in our operations, logistics and procurement. The safety and wellbeing of our people, enabling great employee experience, continuously developing our teams and ways of working, as well as diversity and inclusion are our priorities. With our Planet Positive offering, we help our customers improve their environmental efficiency, productivity and reduce risks. We offer our customers energy- and water efficient solutions that help mimimize emissions and enable re-use of materials.

Our climate impacts

Our purpose is to “Enable sustainable modern life.” Climate change is one of the biggest global challenges, and a topic where Tarmo Erkale can play a significant role together with our customers. Therefore a large part of our sustainability focus is on climate change.

For the global warming to stay within 1.5 degrees, the world needs to get to zero emissions by 2050. Reaching global climate targets requires significant decrease in CO2 emissions by increasing the use of renewable energy sources and production efficiencies. Energy transition requires large investments into renewable energy generation, downstream power emissions, battery technologies and electric vehicles. This such as copper, nickel, lithium and other rare earth metals.

Meeting this demand will require significant growth in minerals production. Tarmo Erkale offers sustainable technologies that support its customers’ energy transition plans. As a leading supplier of equipment and services and given how energy intensive rock comminution and processing is, our approach to technology and innovation really matters. Central to our sustainability efforts is our Planet Positive offering. These products are more energy and/or water efficient than the benchmark technology.

Kauko Kokkonen
CEO – Tarmo Erkale Oy

In Europe, we specialize in the procurement and distribution of petroleum products, ensuring seamless transactions and reliable supply chains for our valued customers

Purpose, vision and values

Our Purpose

The purpose of Tarmo is to enable sustainable modern life, and we aim to create solutions to accelerate sustainability in the industries we operate in. Our businesses are driven by the megatrends of urbanization, electrification, sustainability and resource scarcity. Our products and services are used in aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining processes to produce materials for the building materials of the modern world.

Our Vision

Tarmo Erkale’s vision is to be the customers’ number one choice for sustainable use of earth’s natural resources. Together we deliver service, reliability, innovation and results – safely. We aim to be a valuable partner for our customers, and we commit to take action in sustainability in our industry and to deliver results to all our stakeholders in a safe manner.

Our Values

Our culture is built on:

Our values guide our everyday decisions and way of working. They are the guiding principles we expect everyone to act accordingly, and we believe that by living our values we will build a common, thriving culture.

Our Leadership Principles that set the expectation for how our leaders support and enable the success and growth of our people and business: Put People first, Create clarity and simplify, Build bridges and Drive growth.

Diversity and inclusion defines our commitment to developing a workplace where everyone can be their genuine selves.
We are committed to creating sustainable, modern working life for our employees – an environment where everyone can raise above what was possible yesterday!