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Sustainability.
Our sustainability work.
Sustainability work is an integrated part of Tingstad's business operations and is governed through the company's management and operational processes. The governance is designed to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, meet customer and market requirements, and manage risks and opportunities in a structured and business-oriented manner.
The overall responsibility for sustainability work lies with the Environment & Quality department, which is responsible for substantive issues in the area. Sustainability issues for us encompass environmental, climate-related and social aspects throughout the value chain and include, among other things, legal and external monitoring as well as sustainability reporting.
Sustainability news
FSC Week 2026.
FSC Week is a recurring Nordic campaign held every year. Usually the week before Easter. The purpose of the week is to increase knowledge about sustainable forestry and about products labeled with FSC. For 2026, the theme is Voices of the Forest. For us, it is a given to be part of FSC Week.
Published: 2026-03-23
Tingstad receives bronze in Ecovadi's sustainability assessment.
At the end of 2025, Tingstad conducted a sustainability assessment via the independent platform EcoVadis, which is used by more than 150,000 companies in over 180 countries and 200 industries. Assessment is carried out in the areas of “environment”, “labor and human rights”, “business ethics” and “sustainable procurement”.
The assessment resulted in a bronze medal, which 35% of the companies that reach the medal level are awarded.
Compared to the previous year, we have made a significant improvement in the area of “sustainable procurement”, but also in the area of “business ethics”, which is a result of strengthening both our supplier assessments and our code of conduct in 2025. However, we are close to the silver mark and have the ambition to reach it in the next assessment.
Published: 2026-03-09
Goals according to SBTi.
In 2025, we submitted an application to set targets according to Science Based Tarbets (SBTi). An important step for our climate work, which we see as a long-term journey. Validation of the targets will take place in 2026.
Published: 2026-01-12
Sustainability report summarizing 2024.
In our 2025 Sustainability Report, we explain how we have identified the goals we will work towards and report on what we have worked on within each goal and how we have managed to achieve them. The report summarizes the previous year, i.e. 2024.
Published: 2025-06-26
We deliver on corrugated pallets.
We now also deliver on corrugated pallets. A wooden pallet weighs 10-12 kilos while a corrugated pallet only weighs 2 kilos, something you will notice when you eventually handle the pallet. The lighter weight of the corrugated pallet means that less fuel is used in the transport to you as a customer, which in turn results in lower CO2 emissions. Our goal is that approximately 70% of our pallets will be corrugated pallets. The weight limit on the corrugated pallet is approximately 400 kilos, which means that wooden pallets will still need to be used to some extent.
Published: 2023-06-26
Focus areas in sustainability work
Climate change.
Tingstad's largest climate impact occurs in the production of the goods we sell. For 2025, we were able to link 99.6% of our climate impact there (scope 3). This reflects that emissions occur in raw material extraction, production and processing at our suppliers. To reduce our climate impact in this category, we are working to:
Increasing the proportion of sustainability-labeled products
Increasing the proportion of products with recycled or renewable materials
Making product information visible to make it easier for our customers to make choices based on environmental performance
Making requirements in the supplier chain
Emissions from our own operations primarily include company cars, energy use in our premises and internal transport.
Circular economy.
Tingstad offers several solutions that contribute to a circular economy.
PANTER - Together with our partner Panter, we offer a circular system for reusable packaging aimed at restaurants, cafes and other food service businesses throughout the Nordic region.
Plastic Bank - Tingstad has been a partner of Plastic Bank since 2021 as part of our work to reduce plastic pollution and contribute to a more circular use of plastic. Through the collaboration, we have launched selected products, such as pump soaps and cleaning sprays, marked with the Plastic Bank symbol. For every bottle sold within this range, the equivalent of five plastic bottles are prevented from reaching the oceans and waterways.
Circular IT - As part of our internal work to achieve higher resource efficiency, we purchase parts of our client equipment such as computers, mobile phones and screens, via ReuseIT. We also actively work to extend the lifespan of the equipment we use.
Tingstad Service - Our service offering is an important part of promoting a more resource-efficient and circular economy, where the value of existing resources is preserved for a longer period of time.
Our own workforce.
Our employees are a central part of the business and a prerequisite for us to be able to conduct long-term and responsible work. We conduct an annual employee survey that includes questions about the working environment, working conditions, corporate culture, leadership and skills development. We conduct systematic work environment work with ongoing risk assessments and follow-ups to prevent ill health and accidents. All new employees receive an introduction to the company's quality and sustainability work. For each department, there are clear sustainability goals that are communicated in the organization and are available in our business system.
Workers in the value chain.
Our responsibility extends throughout the value chain, from our own Tingstad employees to the people who work at our suppliers and, in turn, their subcontractors. Through our demands on our suppliers, we can influence working conditions in the value chain. Our negotiating power must be used responsibly and in the long term. In this work, our Code of Conduct is the basis for contracts for all our suppliers.
In addition to signing our Code of Conduct, each supplier must undergo a supplier assessment. The assessment is carried out both when introducing new suppliers and continuously with our existing suppliers.
Our Projects
Rescue Mission.
The rescue mission works to combat vulnerability and exclusion, with the goal of giving every individual a dignified life. They face challenges such as a lack of sheltered housing for women in need and homelessness in Gothenburg, where 4,000 people are without a roof over their heads or food. Maträtt is a social food store that combats food poverty and offers job training for those on low incomes.
The Fistula Hospital Foundation.
Tingstad supports the Fistula Foundation since 2009. The Fistula Hospital is located in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and is a hospital for women suffering from birth injuries, obstetric fistula. The fistula hospital foundation is a non-profit, non-political and non-religious foundation in large need of donations for their work.
Such a hospital is uncommon, even though many women are injured. Women as a group have a subordinate position and often suffer from malnutrition. Female genital mutilation is common and despite legislation girls often gets married and becomes pregnant very young. This leads to difficult births were the child dies and the mother suffers from genital injuries. Through operations and care the fistula hospital helps these women back to a normal life.
To read more about the foundation, visit www.fistulasjukhuset.org
Faktum.
Tingstad supports Faktum. Faktum was founded in 2001 in Gothenburg and is a newspaper sold out on the streets. Anyone who is homeless or facing social exclusion can start to sell Faktum. Vendors buy the magazine for 50 SEK, sell it for 100 SEK and keeps the difference. The work usually involves more than just making money on newspaper sales, it also means taking responsibility, planning the day, create routines and become part of a social context. Faktum is also working to create debate and public opinion on homelessness and social exclusion.
ISO CERTIFICATIONS & CODE OF CONDUCT
PART OF THE BUSINESS
ISO since the 90s.
We have been ISO certified since the 1990s and in 2016 we were one of the first in the industry to be certified against the new environmental standards 14001: 2015 and 9001: 2015 for quality.
Our ISO work means that all our departments work with the environment and quality, that our staff are trained and that we work to constantly improve our work.
Our Code Of Conduct
A good deal is about more than money.
By taking responsibility and doing good business that is not only good for us and our customers - but for the entire chain - we weave together sustainability with purchasing.
A basic requirement we place on all our suppliers is to maintain a high standard of ethical, social and environmental conditions in their operations. We also carry out booked visits, unbooked visits and audits at suppliers at risk lengths.
