Sustainability
By providing increasingly sustainable solutions to our customers, we are building a more sustainable society.
Method Development
The goal of the development of methods at L&T is to find more sustainable, safe and efficient solutions to serve our customers.
Why we are developing our methods
Safety
We improve the safety and occupational well-being of our employees.
Efficiency
We make our operations more efficient and improve the efficiency of our customers’ processes.
A child can look at an empty cardboard box and see a spaceship. We have the tendency to do the same.
Long live ideas and creativity!
At L&T, methods are not developed behind closed doors with a small group of people: everyone participates across organisational boundaries. Everyone is free to present their ideas, and they are explored and piloted with a low threshold.
Examples about L&T's development work
Water purification
In the industry, water purification is needed, for example, when a customer’s plant is closed down for high-pressure cleaning. Traditionally, the process produces a large volume of wastewater.
L&T’s subsidiary SVB has developed a container solution for water treatment. Water treatment plants built in containers can be taken to the customer, allowing the water to be treated on site instead of needing to transport them elsewhere in slurry trucks.
The purified water can be directed back to the pump for reuse. The innovative system makes it possible to only use less than a third of the water used when washing following traditional methods.
Recovering precipitate with an underwater vacuum cleaner
The bottoms of various industrial precipitation tanks accumulate precipitate, which is difficult to recover and transport away. L&T is developing a caterpillar robot running along the bottom of the pool that will collect the precipitate by licking. The precipitate can be collected faster and more efficiently, and it can be utilised further.
Blasting for cleaner results
L&T has developed its own explosive-based method for cleaning industrial soda recovery, waste and bio boilers in power plants as well as silos and flue gas ducts. Blasting is a quick and effective method since it does not require the plant to be shut down during the cleaning nor the people to enter the cleaning sites.
At the same time, it promotes occupational safety and reduces the risk of corrosion and the amount of waste generated during cleaning.
Raw materials and new products from hazardous waste
When processed appropriately, even hazardous waste can be recovered for a wide range of uses. L&T has achieved the highest hazardous-materials recycling rate in Europe thanks to the development of its methods: 70% of all hazardous waste that passes through L&T is safely recycled.
All waste fractions processed at L&T’s own plants continue their lifecycle in some other form. For example, L&T recycles waste oil for reuse, and glycol used in cooling systems ends up as a wood marker used in forestry.
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L&T in short
Lassila & Tikanoja is a multi-service company that makes the circular economy a reality. Our goal is to create more value with the circular economy for our customers, our personnel, society and our owners.
L&T's Culture
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Business areas
Get to know L&T's industries: Environmental Services, Industrial Services, Facility Services Finland and Facility Services Sweden.