Pillar 4: Business and innovation

protection through innovation.

Over the years, our sustained innovation culture has become an essential part of our corporate DNA. It is how we distinguish ourselves from the competition and the reason today we are present in a wide variety of markets with smart textile solutions and efficient powerful production facilities.

Our ambition

Sioen wants to set the standard and be the number one innovator in the fields of technical textiles and professional protective clothing. We are further investing in product innovation in all aspects of sustainability and enhancing both environmental, social, and economic benefits. Our innovative products protect public health and environment over their whole life cycle, from the extraction of raw materials until their final disposal.

Intrapreneurship and open innovation

In in lean organisation like ours, we must be smart and act as a team but counting on the knowledge, experience, and good intentions of everyone. At our company, successes are shared and celebrated. There’s room for entrepreneurship, which implies that there’s room for failure too. In addition, we look beyond the company boundaries and work closely together with universities, customers, suppliers, …

Sustainable products

Contributing to sustainable consumption and production, starts with producing durable products that have a positive impact on people's and businesses lives. Sustainable products are a win for all. We are set on producing sustainable products. From raw material, over design, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, use of the product, until the product is finally discarded and handled to end up as resources for other product life cycles.

Products that save lives

We are set on producing products that save lives both in the most literal way of speaking and in a wider scope. Lifesaving garments for the people that protect us such as firefighters, police, emergency services and people that provide for our food and daily needs such as farmers, fishers, machine operators … Lifesaving products that reinforce roads, protect against the sun, capture rainwater, holds manure, protect reefs and many more.

Products for renewable energy

We are set on producing and further developing fabrics and garments that enable the production (storage and distribution) of renewable energy from sources such as sunlight, wind, rain, etc. Additionally, we are producing products that reduce heat stress in cities, make our roads and transport better, our cars more ecological and that protect people against viruses, among others.