All human activities create pollution for stormwater coming to the drains. Usually, it is polluted with building materials, traffic, industrial and commercial activities. How can we treat stormwater correctly? There are several methods of stormwater treatment. Rickard tells us about the best approaches of treating the polluted stormwater and how important it is to separate it from oil, heavy metals and other suspended solids before it reaches a water body.

As an industrial city and a port on an inlet of the Baltic Sea, Norrköping in southeastern Sweden strives to prevent pollutants from ending up in waterways. In an ongoing  pilot project, pollutants carried by stormwater run-offs will be captured in a massive, tailor-made Uponor Vault, a stormwater treatment chamber to ensure that the stormwater is purified before it reaches the Ljura Stream and finally the sea. 

Uponor, a leading global provider of sustainable water solutions for buildings and infrastructure, announces that its new, even more ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets were approved on 20 April 2023 by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The initiative also approved Uponor’s target of reaching Net Zero emissions by 2040. The approval means that SBTi’s independent experts have reviewed and validated the targets to be in line with the Paris agreement and latest climate science.

Higest purity wastewater in Swedish village of Överklinten. When the existing ground-based wastewater system was condemned, there was an investigation as to an appropriate way of serving the 41 properties in the village, namely a preschool, a business, a hotel, two summer cabins and 36 permanent residences. An Uponor Infra WehoPuts treatment plant was chosen.

Uponor has decided to close down its assembly factory in Ehingen, Germany, and move the assembly operation to its facility in Poland.

Uponor, Wastewise, Neste and Borealis have successfully produced pipes made of cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) which was based on feedstock gained from chemically recycled post-industrial waste plastic from PEX pipe production, using an ISCC PLUS certified mass-balancing approach. The partner companies believe this project is among the first implementations of chemical recycling of PEX.

We started our common journey with Poland-based Capricorn in Autumn of 2021 and now we are moving forward to one of the final steps in the integration process: Capricorn and Uponor are becoming one brand - Uponor as of February 2023.

Ilari Aho is the Vice President of Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at Uponor. Delfin Vassallo caught up with him at the World Water Congress 2022, in Copenhagen, to find out about some of the issues he’s been discussing at the IWA High-Level Summit, whose theme this year was "Partnerships for Smart Liveable Cities – water as a key to Action on Climate and SDGs.”