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SPECIAL REPORT

What initiatives are
you implementing to
promote sustainability in
your product offerings?

Sustainability in all its facets
is an increasingly popular driver
for equipment decisions and its
use. Sustainability at Tennant
means being a good steward of
the resources around the globe.
It is not just from the power
consumption perspective or in
ways that advance our business
but providing customers with
tools to achieve their sustainability
targets. Because our machines
use water for scrubbing, it’s about
water usage consumption, where
the dirty water goes, and having
technologies that minimise the
reliance on clean water to preserve
that precious asset.
We also think about the circular
economy. We design our products
such that they can have one, two or
three useful lives which keep them
out of the landfill. Increasingly,
we are designing products that,
when they reach end-of-life, can
be disassembled and recycled
into another raw material and
have a useful life beyond that. We
think about sustainability not just
in terms of net-zero targets but
holistically, as being the steward of
the world’s resources and enabling
our customers to being stewards
as well.
We are already into extended
producer’s responsibility for
electronic goods in Germany. We
are on the path to building our
capability to recondition our own
machines – where we sell a piece
of equipment and provide the
service, we make sure it is well-
maintained. When it is ready to
have a second life, we will pull the
machine from the pool, recondition
it to certain specifications and put
it back into service so the customer
can get good productivity out of it.

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