E2 Pollution

Pollution, including air, water, and soil pollution, were identified as material in our double materiality assessment.

Impacts, risks, and opportunities

Value chain

Description

Impacts on people or environment

Nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides (NO_X and SO_X)

Own operations

Actual consumption of fossil fuels in our operations, both within transport and production activities.

Emissions cause eutrophication and acidification of water and soil that have negative effects on the environment and people’s health.

Pollution

Downstream

Impact related to mining operations that may cause pollution related to air, water, and soil.

Pollution is interlinked to several topics, such as water, biodiversity, and affected communities, pollution may have a negative impact on all these topics that can affect both people and environment.

Positive impactsNegative impactsOpportunitiesRisks

E2-1 Policies related to pollution

Sandvik has several policies and procedures to manage our material impacts related to pollution. All pollution-related policies and procedures are part of our Group governance framework, The Sandvik Way, and are accessible on our Group intranet. More information on our policy governance is found under GOV-1. Our Code of Conduct, Sandvik Business Partner Code of Conduct and a short version of the EHS policy is accessible on our external website home.sandvik.

**E2-1 Pollution – Policies**
IRO	Policy	Scope	Policy owner	Key contents
Nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides (NO_X and SO_X)	Code of Conduct	NO_X and SO_X within own operations	General Counsel	Commitment to environmental responsibility when operating our business and providing products and services.
Nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides (NO_X and SO_X)	EHS policy	NO_X and SO_X within own operations	Head of Human Resources	Commitment to protecting the environment. Commitment to reducing scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions.
Pollution	Sustainability policy	Downstream	Head of Group Communications and Sustainability	Development of products that enhance customers’ environmental performance (sustainable solutions).
Pollution	Business Partner Code of Conduct	Downstream	President business area Rock Processing and sponsor of Procurement Council in the Group Executive Management	Implement and maintain a risk-based approach to reduce or minimize any negative environmental impact from activities, products and services. Control, measure, document, and plan work to minimize the environmental impact. Actively work to replace hazardous chemicals with safer alternatives.

E2-2 Actions and resources related to pollution

Our pollution-related policies, along with Group objectives and targets, guide our pollution-related actions. Each business area develops plans to meet the Group objectives, with annual targets set to drive performance at all organizational levels. Our decentralized way of working empowers sites, divisions, and sales areas to implement mitigation actions that are relevant in their respective context or market. Common focus areas, ways of working, and best practices are shared and decided upon within the business areas and the Sandvik Group councils.

The downstream impact is related to the mining sector and potential negative impact on air, water, and soil. We are linked to this impact and have not developed any specific actions targeting the downstream value chain.

In the following table, our pollution-related implemented key actions in 2025 are disclosed.

**E2-2 Pollution – Key actions**
IRO	Description	Scope	Key actions	Time horizon
Nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides (NO_X and SO_X)	Pollution of NO_X and SO_X generated as a result of fossil fuel consumption is managed through our commitment to reducing GHG emissions. As we decarbonize our operations, the emissions of NO_X and SO_X decreases.	Own operations	Expansion of battery electric, HVO and hybrid car fleet in, for instance, sales area northern Europe, south-east Asia, and USA.	2025
			Fossil-fuel powered forklifts replaced with electric ones at several sites, including Ballygawley (Northern Ireland), Changzhou (China), and Elko (USA).	2025
			Sites in Tampere and Turku (Finland) changed to HVO in test-running of products.	2025

E2-3 Targets related to pollution

NO_X and SO_X pollution occurs as a result of fossil fuel consumption in our own operations. We have not adopted any specific pollution targets. However, our ambition to reduce pollution of NO_X and SO_X is incorporated in our targets to reduce GHG emissions. As we decarbonize our operations and work to meet our GHG reduction targets for scope 1 and 2, the emissions of NO_X and SO_X will also decrease. Our targets are to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50 percent by 2030, and by 90 percent by 2040, compared to the 2019 baseline.

We have not adopted any group-wide targets related to our material pollution-related topics within the downstream value chain. We track the effectiveness of our policies through several monitoring processes, where each policy outlines how compliance is monitored.

E2-4 Pollution of air, water, and soil

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Pollution of air
Ton	2023	2024	2025
NO_X	125.0	113.0	113.0
SO_X	0.7	0.7	0.6

§ Reporting principles

The data is calculated based on data on fossil fuel consumption and by applying emission factors from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. Data on fossil fuel consumption is reported on a quarterly basis by the entities in our EHS reporting system. The fossil fuel consumption data primarily relies on information provided by suppliers. A minimal share of the data is estimated by using external statistics and industry averages.

The fossil fuel consumption data is offset by one month, allowing time for data collection, quality control, and consolidation. The data is gathered for the period January to November, and the December data is estimated based on the previous year’s December data. All data refers to continuing operations. The historical data has been updated to include acquisitions and to reflect our organizational structure as of 2025, to get a comparable dataset.

We do not perform any direct measurements of NO_X and SO_X as we consider the current calculation methodology to be adequate.

Annual Report 2025