Water Responsibility Statement 

Clean water is vital for humans, nature, and the economy. The quantity and quality of water are also important factors in ensuring the functioning of Nokian Tyres’ operations.   

As our Environmental, safety and quality guideline states, Nokian Tyres commits to environmental responsibility, which includes consuming and managing water sustainably.   

Nokian Tyres also influences water topics and other sustainability matters through our memberships in the UN Global Compact, ETRMA, USTMA, and the Finnish Chemical Industry Federation. We build employee awareness by providing training to employees on water efficiency and by handling the topic in our sustainability communications. 

Water and wastewater

Our tire manufacturing processes use large quantities of cooling water. Mainly, we use municipal water for process cooling in circular system and after usage deliver it to a wastewater treatment plant. In our Finnish factory, we take surface water for cooling from the nearby Nokianvirta river and discharge it back into the river after use. The cooling water has no contact with production chemicals at any stage and, therefore, does not become contaminated.

In our factories we take regular samples from the cooling water and from the wastewater conveyed to the municipal treatment plant in order to verify the water quality. Both the wastewater conveyed into the municipal sewage system and the cooling waters has been practically clean. 

In 2020, water risk assessments were made for our production sites, and in 2023 the assessments were updated. The assessments were done using WWF’s water risks filters, and they confirm that our water related risks are minor and that we don’t operate in water stressed areas. We will update water risk assessment once in every three years. Assessment of water risks related to our supply chain were started by assessing risks based on geographical locations.