Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do.
We provide user-friendly and long-lasting solutions for the protection and decoration of surfaces, aimed at consumers, professionals, and industrial customers alike.
Our product selection includes paints for interior and exterior surfaces as well as coverings for metal and wood industries.
Eco-labelled paints
Our eco-label paints are awarded many ecolabels: the Nordic Swan Ecolabel, EU Ecolabel, and M1 classification, measuring low emissions and allergy labels. The classifications help us to choose products that are better for the environment, health, and safety.
Breathable Surfaces
Our interior wall paints are breathable, which means that they have a high aqueous vapour permeability. Tikkurila exterior paints have been optimised to protect the surface from weather stress and direct rainfall, but also to allow aqueous vapour to pass through.
High-quality raw materials
We are continuously cooperating with our raw material suppliers to find alternatives that work technically and more safely for health and the environment. Our low-emission, water-borne paints are manufactured from high-quality raw materials, and the product properties are ensured with a through set of field and laboratory tests.
Reduced waste
All our colour tinting is done to order. This means we hold no leftover colours in our warehouse or on the shelves that must be thrown away with time. This improves our efficiency and decreases our amount of waste.
Water used in the production of paint products
Water, which is largely sourced from a municipal water supply, is a significant ingredient used in both our products and production. About half of the water we use is part of the finished products. In production, water is used in cooling circuits or to clean equipment. We reuse some of this cleaning water in the paint manufacture, where it will not compromise the quality and properties of the paint. Less than 10% of water withdrawn is discharged as production wastewater. In Finland, Poland and Germany, wastewater is cleaned at the production facilities.
Greenhouse gas emissions from paint production
Most greenhouse gas emissions in paint production are generated by burning fuel for heating and internal transport as well as in the production of solvent-borne paints caused by inert gases and by burning the volatile organic compounds. Tikkurila regularly monitors and evaluates its energy consumption and implements projects to optimise energy usage and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. We encourage renewable energy, and our production facility in Sweden has been run completely on renewable energy since 2012.
