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site name Bruks-Siwertell
site name Bruks-Siwertell
Plastic recycling in bags

Collaboration and initiative underpin plastic waste recycling success

  • Environmental logo Environmental aspect
  • - 19 Nov 2025

What started as one person’s idea to address plastic waste has developed into a structured recycling initiative at Bruks Siwertell Group company, West Salem Machinery (WSM), USA. The project contributes to the Group’s commitment to zero waste by 2030 and demonstrates how personnel can be empowered to act for lasting change.

Embedded sustainability frameworks lower long-term carbon demands

  • Environmental logo Environmental aspect
  • - 17 Nov 2025

Sustainability goal: environmental In line with Bruks Siwertell Group’s 2030 ambition to halve its CO2 emissions by 2030 and set

Fire safety training outside

2025 Group-wide health and safety focus yields positive early results

  • Social logo Social aspect
  • - 12 Nov 2025

In 2025, Bruks Siwertell Group’s central sustainability theme was health and safety, encouraging every business unit to implement local initiatives. From wellness programs to ISO certification, employee-driven activities and safety champions, all contributed towards making positive impacts to wellbeing and a safer workplace culture across the Group.

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Energy audit drives efficiency savings and emissions reductions

  • Environmental logo Environmental aspect
  • - 10 Nov 2025

A systematic energy audit at FTG Cranes, part of the Bruks Siwertell Group, has identified multiple opportunities to reduce energy use, lower emissions, and cut costs, strengthening the company’s environmental sustainability performance and contributing to Group-wide carbon reduction goals.

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Reworked components lower lifecycle costs and reduce environmental impact

  • Environmental logo Environmental aspect
  • - 20 Oct 2025

Innovative thinking and a modular design principle means that at Bruks Siwertell Group company FTG Baltic, based in Lithuania, superseded manufacturing components are being reworked and reused rather than being disposed of. This approach is saving materials, lowering energy use, and reducing waste across the value chain.

Solar panels on roof

Solar panel installation targets renewable energy goals

  • Environmental logo Environmental aspect
  • - 10 Jan 2025

Bruks Siwertell Group company, Bruks Siwertell AB, based in Bjuv, Sweden, has completed the installation of a solar panel system on the facility’s roof. The 758 panels are estimated to generate approximately 400,000 kWh annually, offsetting more than a third of the site’s total energy consumption.

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Modernization offers opportunities for environmental and social gains

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  • Social logo Social aspect
  • - 11 Dec 2024

An ambitious eighteen-month-long rebuilding and modernization project at Bruks Siwertell Group company, Bruks AB, based in Arbrå, Sweden, is set to reap both social and environmental benefits. The buildings are not only more energy efficient; they also provide an inviting, healthy and happy workplace environment.

Two women in green shirts holding plastic bag

Clean-up initiative helps restore nature in crucial conservation area

  • Environmental logo Environmental aspect
  • - 9 Dec 2024

Bruks Siwertell Group’s USA-based Atlanta business unit, has partnered with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to help maintain one of the region’s most important conservation areas, Sprewell Bluff Park. The first event saw Group volunteers remove around 400kg of litter and debris from the verges of the park’s access roads, restoring its beauty and protecting the environment.

Categories: Environment

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Leadership training fosters diversity and inclusion at Bruks Siwertell

  • Social logo Social aspect
  • - 20 Nov 2024

Bruks Siwertell Group has rolled-out a comprehensive diversity and inclusion workshop for its leadership teams. It is designed to challenge existing perspectives and provide practical tools to address biases, discrimination and foster workplace inclusivity. The training has been implemented at a Group-wide level, ensuring that all managers can support positive change within their local teams.

Thomas Johansson

Bruks Siwertell reduces carbon emissions with simple switches and routine changes 

  • Environmental logo Environmental aspect
  • - 7 Oct 2024

By instigating a number of relatively small changes and actions, Bruks Siwertell’s Bjuv-based business unit in Sweden is set to achieve an annual saving of 36 MWh in electricity and 60 MWh in heating; equivalent to around 67.1 metric tons of carbon emissions.