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The Cradle to Cradle Principle<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

For better building materials<\/h2><\/div>

Anyone entering the search term sustainability into the Google search engine today will currently receive around 52 million references. There is hardly a sector in the building materials industry without a direct or indirect reference to sustainability. Ultimately, the former concrete claim is decisive: “It’s what you make of it that counts!” That’s exactly our point. At Baukom, we have re-evaluated sustainability for our company, developed it intelligently, underpinned it solidly and implemented it in concrete activities.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Sustainability is now a corporate strategy<\/h2><\/div>

Over the last three years, the importance of sustainability has changed significantly at Baukom. In a very dynamic process, sustainability has evolved from one of several corporate principles to become the decisive corporate strategy today. Prof Dr Michael Braungart and his Cradle to Cradle\u00ae concept provide the necessary foundation for this approach. “Innovation only has a future with sustainability!” -says Professor Braungart. Baukom has put this guiding principle into practice with the SmartPac concept for packaging:<\/p>\n

SmartPac tube packaging was introduced in 2017, which protects the profiles from production to the construction site and beyond. The required profiles are only removed from the tube packaging shortly before installation and installed immediately. The remaining profiles are pushed back into the tube and transported safely onwards. In 2018, the SmartPac film packaging (still PE-based) was added in a second phase and at the end of 2020 the PE film was replaced by the biodegradable SmartPac biofilm.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Cradle to Cradle\u00ae principle<\/h2><\/div>

Baukom’s guiding principle for implementing sustainability is the Cradle to Cradle\u00ae principle (C2C). In this concept, products are no longer only assessed according to their aesthetics and functionality, but also according to their impact on the environment and health and their suitability for the material cycle. The Cradle to Cradle\u00ae Certified\u2122 product standard is the brainchild of scientists Prof Dr Michael Braungart and William McDonough and is awarded by the Cradle to Cradle\u00ae Products Innovation Institute (C2CPII), a non-profit organisation based in San Francisco (USA). The process leading up to certification brings designers and manufacturers together through a process of continuous product optimisation towards a combination of sophisticated aesthetics, technical quality and the highest ecological standards.<\/p>\n

C2C requires a paradigm shift in the way a product is designed, assembled, used and returned. Baukom Managing Director Stefan Endlweber: “Intensive discussions with Dr Michael Braungart led us down this path of thinking in cycles (see graphic on the next page) and ultimately led to the realisation that we need to rethink! We need innovations that save raw materials.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Sustainability generates customer benefits<\/h2><\/div>

Actively practising C2C certification enables you to make progress for your company:<\/p>\n<\/div>