Sustainability
Sustainable Business Models
A sustainable business model reflects a successful business model established by planning and implementing roles and responsibilities in order to ensure medium and long-term orientation to economic, social and environmental targets with Stakeholders engagement.
We have the goal to contribute to the sustainable development of the company and society while providing competitive advantage via creating superior value for our business partners and customers in our supply chain.
As Çimsa, we make innovative efforts by adapting to new technologies in order to develop a product range that meets the needs and demands of our customers. We continue to expand our portfolio of products with features that can adapt to changing environmental conditions and different types of structures. Click to go to the products page.
We are building sustainable living spaces by transforming our portfolio into sustainable products that reduce clinker usage rates in cement and enrich product content with alternative raw materials.
In parallel with our strategy to transition to a low-carbon economy, we put the power of R&D behind us by focusing on portfolio changes that will reduce our carbon intensity in the product lifecycle. We evaluate alternative raw material sources such as slag, fly ash, ceramic and marble industry by-products as additives for sustainable products. We thus include alternative resources in our production processes instead of natural raw materials as a substitute for clinker in our products, and we are taking one of the most important steps that will contribute to our decarbonization journey as well as the circular economy.
As Çimsa, we define our products with a clinker utilization rate below 80% as “sustainable products” in order to reinforce our internal targets in the sustainable product category and create a motivational tool for the industry and we are also guided by the classifications of the European Union Taxonomy for the transformation of our products. In 2023, within the framework of the EU taxonomy, 9 different sustainable products were put into the service of our customers, in which the clinker usage rates in cement were reduced and the product content was enhanced with cementitious substances.
Value Added and Sustainable Concrete Products
We present our products under the roof of IconiCrete, the premium ready-mixed concrete series we developed for the wide range of needs in creating sustainable living spaces in the building materials industry, to our business partners. Shaped by the principles of quality, consistency and reliability, these products have been developed for various applications from airport runway concrete to architectural design wonders and are being renewed every day to meet the changing demands of the industry.
Taking into account the correct and fair use of natural resources in supply chain management, we have implemented the “Sustainable Supply Chain Management” model with our perspective of creating a “Sustainable Business Model” instead of classical supply chain management. By creating an ESG-focused ecosystem with our suppliers, we become a driving force for the transformation of our supply chain as well.
In this way, we shape today for a sustainable tomorrow by ensuring that our supplier network not only reduces their negative environmental impact, but also increases their economic efficiency and creates social value.
On our path to creating a Sustainable Supply Chain Management business model and aligning our supplier network with our sustainable transformation perspective, we are following a roadmap that consists of various stages in the supply chain:
