Experience with EED in Europe

01 Dec 2020

Atle Thiis-Messel, VP Sustainability

Healthy and effective sitting

Celebrating Movement

Work healthy – sit smart

Design for

sustainable meetings

Bringing life to rooms

Design to work

Design for

human perfomance

A fully integrated House of Brands

KoblenzSwitzerland

RørosNorway

NässjöSweden

Main sites

TurekPoland

TibroSweden

HawthorneUSA

GuangdongChina

Flokk production sites 2020

ZwolleThe Netherlands

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Røros

Nässjö

Turek

Flokk’s three Focus areas to reduce environmental impact

1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020

1st

Environment

Manager

Pioneers on environment

Flokk Long term

Sustainability Goals

Horizon 2030

55%

55%

55%

55%

55%

Flokk – Long term Climate Goals

2019Energiforbruk: 10,8 GWh

Karbonutslipp: 2 409 tCO2e

Flokk vs EED? rewinding back to 2015…

«EED, or not to be!»

1st EED deadline Dec’2015: penalties up to EUR 200 000 !!

EED – Did we qualify? And which countries?

EED – Did we qualify? And which countries?

Due to Flokk & Triton legal structure & operations,

2015 – Flokk qualified in

• Sweden

• Germany

• The Netherlands

Due to be prepared (EFTA coming soon) we included

• Norway

EED – Did we qualify? And which countries?

Due to Flokk & Triton legal structure & operations,

2020 – Flokk qualifies in

• Sweden

• Germany

• The Netherlands (factory shut-down 2018)

• Poland

• Norway (prepared for EFTA actions)

EED – Did we qualify? And which countries?

2 ways, either:

1)

2)

EN 16247.every 4 years in

each country

ISO 50001.annual audit

EED – How to comply?

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

March’2016

The Netherlands

May’2016

Germany

Dec’2016

Sweden

Dec’2017

Norway

Energy Audit - 4 year validity period

Time running out!

New 4-year cycle came up

Deadline Dec’19: penalties..!

Would had to kick off next cycle of

energy audits Beg’2019

Energy Audits! . Needed time to explore ISO 50001 maturity

. To shield resources in time consuming BMA integration

. Rather focus on merging BMA into ISO 9001 & ISO 14001

2017

Poland

EED – How Flokk chose to comply in 2015

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

March’2016

The Netherlands

May’2016

Germany

Dec’2016

SwedenDec’2017

Norway

Energy Audit - 4 year validity period

. More consistent approach than country-specific audit scheme

. Enables ongoing strategy for reducing energy consumption

. Continuous improvements and board-level support more secured

. Synergy with already ISO 9001 and ISO 14001

+ Energy Audit 2021

Poland2017

Poland

EED – How Flokk complied from 2019

23

February 2019

Reporting in Sweden

Reporting in Netherlands

Energy consumption 2010-2019

Scope: ISO sites (Norway, Sweden, Germany)

Flokk Corporate Sustainability report 2019 - p.94 in Annual Report 2019

Credit: theoceancleanup

2019: 649 tonnes recycled plastics used

= 843 tCO2e saved vs virgin plastics

Thank you!