What Company is This?
Lindab was founded as a small metal workshop in Lidhult, Sweden, in 1956 Today, the company is a ventilation company, offering energy-efficient ventilation and healthy indoor climate solutions in Europe. In northern Europe, Lindab also offers an extensive range of roof, wall, and rainwater systems. Lindab employs approximately 5,000 people and its net sales reached SEK 12,854 million in 2025. Lindab is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange.
What Are the Results?
Lindab scores second-highest in total at 38% and takes second place at 45% in Steel Supply Chain Sustainability. In General Supply Chain Sustainability, Lindab scores 32% and ranks third. In the Target Setting and Progress subcategory of General Supply Chain Sustainability, Lindab scores 39%, while in Use of Supply Chain Levers, it scores only 17%. In the Steel Supply Chain category, the company scores 100% among four companies for Disclosures regarding steel, meaning it disaggregates its Scope 3 emissions for its steel supply chain. For the Target Setting and Progress subcategory, Lindab scores 36%, and for Supply Chain Levers, 25%.
What Are the Highlights?
The indicators in which Lindab scores full points are the above-mentioned disclosure of disaggregated emissions for its steel supply chain, SBTi-verified climate targets that include upstream emissions and both interim and 2050 targets, and disclosure of the share of lower-emission steel in its annual production cycle. The company also performs quite well on setting targets and following up on suppliers’ greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts, by including sustainability as a choice criterion when choosing suppliers, disclosing its partnerships with SSAB, Stegra, ArcelorMittal, Salzgitter, and Tata Steel, and reporting the share of recycled steel in its annual production cycle, scoring partial points for these indicators.
Where Can the Company Improve?
Lindab could do better by requiring science-based targets from its suppliers and disclosing the percentage of suppliers having set them; requiring water reduction targets from suppliers and committing to halting deforestation and land conversion in its supply chains, and setting specific requirements for suppliers both on water usage and deforestation and land conversion prevention, in the General Supply Chain Sustainability category. In addition, regarding its steel supply chains, Lindab could improve by setting a target for using recycled steel, joining a buyer coalition for steel, becoming a ResponsibleSteel member, engaging with its suppliers on certification, and improving its performance on a closed-loop steel process. The company scores zero points for all of these indicators.
