Nokian Tyres selected for the DJSI World sustainability index

Nokian Tyres has been selected for Dow Jones’ DJSI World sustainability index. With a total sustainability score nearly twice as high as the industry average, Nokian Tyres significantly improved its results in the 2017 assessment. Nokian Tyres’ score of 78 points was only one point behind the industry’s highest-scoring company globally.

“Our employees have done a great job in improving all aspects of sustainability in our company. Our determination to be a sustainability pioneer in the tyre industry is demonstrated by our safe and eco-friendly products as well as our inclusion in DJSI World. We are definitely on the right track, and the conditions are great for further improving our operations,”, says Hille Korhonen, president and chief executive officer of Nokian Tyres.

Nokian Tyres has worked in the long term in order to develop corporate social responsibility regarding its products, the company’s operations and the entire tyre industry. Since 2012, the company has published sustainability reports in line with the international GRI guidelines. Nokian Tyres’ concrete sustainability goals for 2020 include, among other things, significant reduction of rolling resistance in the company’s products, cutting CO2 emissions from production by 20 per cent and auditing all of its natural rubber processors. The company intends to continue its efforts in all areas of sustainability.

Listing the world’s most sustainable companies

The Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) is an annual sustainability assessment of large publicly traded companies by the Swiss RobecoSAM. For investors, this is a highly valued, comprehensive corporate sustainability assessment. RobecoSAM assesses sustainability in terms of financial, social and environmental criteria. An independent assessment by an international company provides stakeholders – customers, investors and employees – with a reliable description of companies’ sustainability work.

In 2017, RobecoSAM invited nearly 3,500 of the world’s largest publicly traded companies from 47 countries to participate in the sustainability assessment. Based on the assessment, the top ten per cent of these companies were included in the index as the most sustainable companies in the world. In addition to Nokian Tyres, six other Finnish companies were included in the DJSI World index. In the Auto Components sector, Nokian Tyres was the only Nordic company included in DJSI World.