Innovation and collaboration are key for the building sector to contribute to a more sustainable society, and partnering with companies that share the same commitment is essential.

Omya helps customers reduce their carbon footprint, replace harmful substances, accelerate reformulation and ensure seamless compatibility of its minerals and cross-sector solutions in final product formulations.

Beyond carbon reduction, Omya provides solutions that help customers optimize resources, minimize waste, improve circularity and strengthen their sustainability efforts. This commitment is supported by global technical expertise, practical toolkits and formulation intelligence – five scalable ways to help customers achieve their sustainability goals. This forward-thinking approach is at the heart of Omya’s essence: “Thinking of Tomorrow.”

Innovating for tomorrow

Omya is a leading global producer of essential minerals, and a worldwide distributor of specialty materials. “Thinking of Tomorrow” is part of Omya’s DNA and testifies to its commitment in continuing thinking and developing innovative products and solutions that make life better for current and future generations.

That is why Omya has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and a 50 percent reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030 with a baseline year of 2019.  Decarbonizing its operations and value chain, investing in renewable power generation and energy efficiency projects, purchasing green energy and replacing fossil fuels with green fuels will ensure Omya reaches its sustainability target.

Omya’s strong presence in Middle-East region

Omya’s long history started more than 140 years ago and still flourishes in the over 50 countries where it operates, with 9,000 employees of more than 70 nationalities.

With technical laboratories at its headquarters in Switzerland and dedicated regional technical service hubs throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia, Omya offers laboratory analysis, reformulation support and implementation assistance to customers worldwide to deliver comprehensive and sustainable solutions for improved performance.

Omya has also a strong footprint in Middle East region, including production facilities in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

It’s Omya’s global perspective and expertise that enable the development of the highest-performance and most sustainable solutions and support, as a trusted partner to its customers.

Beyond carbon reduction with Omya’s toolkits

Omya is fully engaged in the development of sustainable solutions beyond focusing just on carbon footprint. For this reason, it developed specific toolkits for the construction industry to pursue sustainable goals across key sectors, from paints and coatings; adhesives and sealants; and mortar and concrete.

Each of these toolkits is designed to help Omya’s customers face specific market needs.

For example, Omya’s sustainability toolkit for paints and coatings offers solutions that help selecting, formulating and implementing sustainable offerings to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Eco-design for Sustainable Products Regulations criteria, while helping customers improve their Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design score. Omya’s toolkits combine innovative product portfolios with comprehensive technical expertise and support, ensuring high-performance and sustainable paints.

Flexshuttle: accelerating speed to market with formulation intelligence

The flagship service for paints and coatings was adopted at Omya many years ago, when the company decided to drive important investments to support its customers during the formulation process, with Flexshuttle, the first fully automated formulation laboratory in the mineral industry, based on high throughput experimentation and supported by AI.

Flexshuttle is used to increase speed to market and to be compliant with regularly and quickly changing regulations which affect paint producers.

With up to 50 samples per day, 17 modules and five performance tests, Flexshuttle offers paint producers faster evaluation, creative solutions and efficient processes.