Sustainability Initiatives
Axalta supports organizations and projects designed to educate and empower our communities while providing an understanding of and response to environmental challenges. We look for locally significant opportunities to apply our experience in technology and innovation, product benefits and stewardship, and in environment, health, and safety disciplines.
Ducks Unlimited — the largest nonprofit organization engaged in wetlands conservation and restoration in the United States with operations in Canada and Mexico — and Axalta have partnered on several initiatives. The first major Ducks Unlimited project was announced in 2016 and supports restoration at the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge along the Texas gulf coast not far from our Houston manufacturing facility. Benefiting from Axalta’s support, other programs and projects will be developed that are adjacent to major manufacturing facilities and those that align with Axalta’s environmental goals, our dependence on water, and the contributions that our products make to enable the materials they coat last longer, operate more efficiently, and thus help to conserve resources.
Engineering wetlands restoration
In China, a tree planting ceremony for the “Axalta Forest” launched our support of the country’s Mother River Protection Program through a multi-year grant to the China Youth Development Foundation. The purchase of trees, seeds, and fertilizer to plant and maintain 11,000 trees will expand the Xiahuayuan forest area near Beijing. This expansion provides “green lungs” in the area, in addition to preventing soil erosion and reducing the force of the winds carrying dust and sand into north China. Local school students are in turn introduced to a curriculum in which they learn about ecosystems.
Axalta volunteers plant trees.