Sustainability boosts business and competitiveness

Solita services: Sustainability boosts business

Sustainability boosts business and competitiveness

Turn sustainability into a profitable business

Concrete action helps your company stand out from the competition in the market. Through sustainability, you can increase net sales, achieve more with less input, increase customer value or reduce business risks.

Solita helps you identify a sustainable vision for your company and goals that support the vision, and achieve them one solution at a time through commitment. Sustainability will not become one cost item among others – instead, we will help you turn sustainability into a profitable business.

Drivers of sustainability

Sustainability as a source of growth

12 trillion $* business opportunities

For many companies, sustainability is a new driver of business growth.

Financially profitable

3/4* sustainable funds outperform their peers

Green loans are cheaper, and investors are interested in the attractive risk-return ratio of sustainable companies.

Customer requirements

34 %* consumers require sustainability action from their chosen brands

Companies in both the B2B and B2C fields are subject to new sustainability requirements.

Inner drive

87 %* diversity leads to better decision-making

Through meaningful work, employees promote change in their companies.

Regulations

2050* carbon-neutral EU

New and more numerous regulations increase the pressure to change. Many countries and companies have already set their own carbon neutrality targets.

Risk management

35 %* production revenues are exposed to risks because of climate change

Risk management is part of sustainability, and sustainability sets new requirements for risk management.

Benefits

Sustainability creates better business

Customers’ growing sustainability requirements steer companies towards new business opportunities. By understanding customer target groups and their various motivation factors, companies can create a competitive advantage through sustainable development. In addition to adopting new business models, companies need to rethink their old models to maximise the positive impact. Sustainable business operations minimise risks and increase profitability through the more efficient use of resources in the circular economy, for example.

Benefits for your business

The circular economy as an engine of new business
Identifying and further developing services that are already sustainable
New value from partnerships and ecosystems
New opportunities through innovation programmes

Sustainability as part of the business strategy

Sustainability is a theme that covers all business units and must be built with all the company’s operations in mind. The transition from product-focused and linear business models to services based on the wise use of materials calls for cooperation. No company can go it alone – cooperation within a network of organisations is needed. The achievement of ambitious sustainability goals requires concrete steps along the path to sustainability and an effective ecosystem around the company.

Benefits for your business

Sustainability boosts competitiveness
Ensuring customer focus through customer insight
Consistent sustainability development through strategy and roadmap work
New opportunities through innovation programmes

Transparency and predictability through data-driven processes

Data and AI are companies’ new superpowers! In terms of sustainability, they offer an interesting capability to collect data from business processes and predict the various phases of business operations. Demand-driven resource management and predictive maintenance are data-based sustainable opportunities. In addition, new accounting requirements have made the automation of the monitoring and reporting of sustainability goals for the company’s own and its customers’ needs an increasingly popular service.

Benefits to your business

Customer value and savings through predictive maintenance
Demand-driven production and logistics reduce waste
Process efficiency through AI
Efficiency for carbon footprint calculation through automation
Enabling the circular economy through the monitoring of material flows

Ministry of the Environment The Materiaalitori marketplace for materials promotes circular economy

“ It is inspiring to be able to offer operators whose work is very important a solution for bringing together the supply and demand for waste and side streams. For its part, the Materiaalitori web service will help make Finland one of the leading countries in circular economy

Jenni Lehtonen Senior Specialist, the Ministry of the Environment