Our Foundations:
Innovation & Supply Chain Resilience

We will encourage, support, and celebrate innovation at Amtico, empowering our colleagues to share ideas, no matter how big or small.

Championing Innovation

We aim to inspire everyone by creating a culture that encourages innovative solutions and collaborative engagement towards shaping a brighter future. As a key foundation of our sustainability strategy, Championing Innovation supports and strengthens initiatives across our Climate, Waste, and People pillars, driving progress through fresh thinking, new materials, and the creativity of our colleagues.

Our innovation initiatives include:

Continuous Improvement (CI) Scheme

Our CI suggestion scheme demonstrates our commitment to creating a company-wide culture of innovation. It works by encouraging all our colleagues to contribute ideas for improving our processes and operations.

Innovation

12.5

In 2024, dedicated innovation-based activities featured at all our 2024 culture events and featured widely in communications across the organisation. This lead to a rise in idea submissions to an average of 12.5 suggestions per month.

Dementia-friendly flooring with the University of Stirling

In 2024, we continued our collaborative partnership with the University of Stirling, working together to develop and further expand our range of dementia-friendly flooring for use in spaces designed for people with dementia.

Innovation

50+

DSDC-accredited designs in 2024.

Water based inks

In June 2024, we launched our first products using a water-based ink design films. This is a significant step towards more sustainable printing processes for our print partners, reducing the use of less environmentally friendly chemicals.

Partnerships and collaborations

We understand that we cannot achieve our sustainability goals alone, which is why collaboration and partnership remain at the heart of our values. We will ensure we continue to lead the way in the quality and design of our products and services. This includes working with our competitors to address common needs and issues within our industry.

Our industry memberships

Supply Chain Resilience

We understand that our sustainability targets cannot be achieved without collaboration and engagement with our supply chain. We are responsible for ensuring that the people involved across our entire supply chain are protected.

Our supply chain initiatives include:

Sustainable Procurement

We’re actively working to align our procurement processes with the ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement Standard and plan to conduct a comprehensive review in 2025.

In preparation for this review, we’re launching supplier sustainability questionnaires, with plans to benchmark our supply chain, introduce regular progress reviews, and integrate sustainability KPIs into all procurement decisions.

Next steps for our foundations...

We will foster innovation, promote new ideas through our initiatives, and enhance collaboration with external stakeholders. Additionally, we are committed to achieving alignment with the ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement Standard.

For further information and our long-term goals,
download our full report.