Vertex Industries — Annual Report · 2025 12 / 15
Sustainability
The biggest lever is not our footprint — it is our product
Vertex Industries cut its scope 1 and 2 emissions by 28% against 2021. We are proud of that, but we stay sober about the orders of magnitude: the energy our systems consume at customer sites exceeds that of our own operations many times over. That is why our headline environmental metric is product efficiency — the current generation uses 18% less energy than the 2022 generation at equal output.
On our own perimeter the course is clear: 71% renewable electricity in 2025, a 100% target for 2028, and a 60% reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030. The end-of-life take-back programme collected 640 tonnes of e-waste in 2025, more than 90% of which was recovered.
CO₂ trajectory — scope 1 and 2
Greenhouse-gas emissions 2021–2025, in kilotonnes of CO₂e. Down 28% against the 2021 baseline.
The environment in numbers
Progress toward 2028 and 2030
Measured against the 2021 baseline, with limited external assurance on published figures.
Winterthur: a campus that applies its own rules
The robotics campus opened in September 2025 is our energy demonstrator. Waste heat from the robot test cells — up to 400 kilowatts at peak — is recovered to heat offices and workshops; the photovoltaic roof covers a third of the site’s electricity needs; the remainder comes exclusively from Swiss renewable contracts.
The result: no fossil boiler, consumption per workplace 45% below our existing sites, and a design handbook we now apply to every renovation across the group.