Minimizing the environmental impact
Nokian Tyres has uncompromising respect for the environment and safety, as well as for ensuring high quality and a good customer experience throughout our operations. We consider the products' entire life cycle and all of the functions in terms of environmental responsibility and follow the Precautionary Principle. Most of the annual environmental and sustainability measures are linked to longer-term sustainability development targets.
Key measures in 2024
The focus of our environmental program is on the following themes, for which yearly targets and actions are planned.
| Theme | Target | Measures and/or results in 2024 |
| VOC emissions | VOC emissions under the set limits in environmental permit at the factories | The target was not met. Further actions are ongoing. |
| Energy | Reaching 2.75 kWh/kg energy efficiency by 2030. The intermediate target for 2024 was 2.80 kWh/kg. | Efficiency decreased from 2.83 kWh/kg in 2023 to 2.96 kWh/kg in 2024. |
| Climate | Continue lowering factory GHG emissions intensity. Collaborating to get Product Carbon Footprints for 70 raw materials from suppliers in 2024. | Both achieved: GHG emissions intensity was 153 CO2 kg/product ton. A total of 115 Product Carbon Footprints. |
| Chemical safety | Two audits by chemical specialists concentrating on the use and storage of chemicals in Nokian Tyres' factories | Audits were conducted. |
| Materials development | Ensuring that products do not contain Substances of Very High Concern as referred to in REACH | Nokian Tyres' tires did not contain Substances of Very High Concern. |
| Increasing environmental awareness among the personnel | Regular trainings and environmental communication | Implemented. |
| Building projects | Assuring chemical and environmental safety in the ramp-up phase of the factory in Romania | Implemented. |
Environmental management
Environmental management is guided by the following policies: The Environmental, Safety, and Quality Policy guides environmental aspects in our Group. The policy has been approved by the President & CEO. The environmental aspects are also discussed in our Code of Conduct.
Our activity management system is based on the ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and ISO 17025 standards and meets the applicable regulations and customer demands. We are also committed to following the UN Global Compact principles.
Our goal is to manage the environmental impacts of our products over their entire life cycle and address the safety and quality aspects of our operations in a comprehensive and systematic manner. The activity management system that covers the environmental aspects, safety, and quality serves as a key tool for this purpose. Our operations manual is ISO 14001 compliant in terms of the environmental aspects and ISO 9001 compliant as regards quality. The key document that guides our environmental protection efforts is the Environmental Protection procedure.
The Vice President for Quality & Sustainability is involved in drawing up the annual targets together with the Senior Manager, Sustainability. Working together with environmental experts, the Senior Manager, Sustainability prepares an annual environmental program for the factories. The program specifies the detailed targets, actions, schedules, and responsible persons for the goals presented in the strategy. In addition, individual units have their own projects for developing the operations and processes. The development of environmental aspects is reviewed monthly at the management meetings.
Our Group’s sustainability efforts are coordinated by the Senior Manager, sustainability. Environmental and chemical safety and sustainability aspects belong to the Quality and Sustainability department, and the overall efforts are coordinated globally by Vice President, Quality & Sustainability, together with Senior Vice President, Operations.
The goals of quality and sustainability management are accident prevention, uninterrupted production, ensuring high quality, and good corporate citizenship in all areas of operation.
Environmental experts at the factories take care of practical environmental coordination and training, for instance regarding chemicals, emissions, and waste.
Complaint mechanisms in environmental responsibility
We document the annual environmental impacts of our tire factories and report them to the local authorities as required in each country. We record feedback to the company's own register and take the necessary corrective actions.
Our factories’ environmental experts in Finland, Romania and the US are responsible for these records. The purpose of this practice is to collect the feedback on the status of our environmental aspects and consider our stakeholders’ related requests and opinions.
We have taken a two-tiered approach to the management of environmental complaint procedures. If the complaint is minor in the scope of Nokian Tyres’ production, an environmental expert can handle it independently and/ or the manager decides on the necessary course of action.
In case of a larger event, the decision to escalate the matter is taken in Nokia, Finland by Vice President, Quality & Sustainability and in Dayton, US, the Plant Manager, and then, if necessary, by the line management.
Environmental violations
Significant* fines or penalties related to the environment or ecology
| Year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Number of violations | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Amount of fines/penalties (€) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |