Population growth, demographic changes, globalization, urbanization, climate change, digitalization and technological changes are factors that will affect our future. Improvement goals of this future are stood on 3 parts: Environmental, social and economic sustainability. From economic view, CHT’s focus is long termed benefit and innovation. With its strong R&D structure, it supports this focus point.
While achieving its growth goals, in addition to innovation, investments and acquisitions also play a key part for CHT. CHT is creating new product groups and investing in new production facilities and equipment for contributing to customers’ sustainable developments. While doing this, it avoids using ecologically suspicious chemicals in line with its corporate vision and sustainability goals before everything.
Among CHT’s 2025 strategic aims, there are increasing the sales of ecologic products over %80, obtaining over %90 of the purchasing activities from sustainable suppliers and service providers, %10 reduction in energy, water and waste generation compared to the base year.
One aspect of CHT’s sustainability roadmap is circular economy. Products consisting of bio-based or recycled raw materials have a valuable place in CHT’s product portfolio. Together with customers, CHT has a place in industrial solutions oriented to circular economy with good examples by working to make manufacturing processes in the industry where products are used recyclable.
The main purpose of the carbon border adjustment mechanism, which came to the agenda within the scope of the EU Green Deal, which is an important transformation in industry and economy, is to determine the import price for selected sectors by taking into account the carbon content of the goods. In this context, with ISO 50001 Energy Management and ISO 14064 Carbon footprint certifications, CHT Turkey adopts the understanding of increasing energy efficiency and reducing emissions and is preparing for the new economic model.