And how do innovation and sustainable development help drive progress?
Alexandre Corjon: We set out to increase the value of our products. As well as hydrogen, we’re also exploring new avenues such as battery power for decarbonizing mobility and ensuring growth for the future. And we are opening up to new forms of transportation, such as trucks, buses, and trains. We offer an integrated solution to transport operators, covering the entire value chain from design to services.
David Meneses: Plastic Omnium deliberately acts ahead of changing regulations and public expectations. The first milestone on our path to carbon neutrality will come as early as 2025. It includes our suppliers and helps our customers to make progress with their own roadmaps. The Group prefers innovation to be disruptive rather than incremental, demonstrated by our bumpers made from 50% recycled material.
What levers are you using to achieve carbon neutrality?
David Meneses: We’re automating and modernizing our industrial processes to make new products and to save on the amount of raw materials we use. We’re stepping up our strategy focused on partnerships, such as the one with Schneider Electric to help us optimize our energy use. Working side-by-side with our suppliers, we’re acting with full transparency by sharing our roadmap to carbon neutrality as well as our tools and best practices.
Alexandre Corjon: Innovation is clearly the solution for tackling the climate emergency. Faced with ever-growing technological complexity, Plastic Omnium prefers to focus on collective intelligence by cooperating with startups to help harness innovation and shorten time-to-market. In terms of new spheres for innovation, we’re hiring specialists in software development, electronics and thermal management.
