Water and energy are precious

Sustainability: our biggest concern and your best selling point

Water is life and our passion. We create inspirational moments with water and develop products with innovative technologies that enable a more conservative use of water and energy. We also strive to use resources ever more efficiently during our processes and to reduce the environmental impact of these. We are making continual progress in this regard. Read on for more details.

Full focus on products with water and energy-saving technologies

“Our ambition is to offer all water-bearing hansgrohe and AXOR products¹ with water or energy-saving technology² by 2030. 

Specifically, this means that all products in our water-bearing ranges are to be made available in water and/or energy-saving versions that combine efficiency with an enjoyable experience of water and reduce water and/or energy consumption during usage.”

Hans Jürgen Kalmbach 
Chairman of the Executive Board of Hansgrohe SE

¹Our key water-bearing products include hand and overhead showers, shower sets, shower combos, showerpipes, basin taps and kitchen taps.

²Products with integrated water or energy-saving technologies such as EcoSmart, EcoSmart+, CoolStart, EcoSelection and SensorActivation. Further information can be found here.

Hansgrohe CEO Kalmbach stands in front of a living wall.
Under Hans Jürgen Kalmbach’s leadership, the Hansgrohe Group is offering its water-bearing products in versions with water and energy-saving technologies.

Check out our water and energy-saving technologies

Excellent design and resource conservation go hand in hand at Hansgrohe. With our EcoSmart* (launched in 2007) and CoolStart (launched in 2012) technologies, consumers have been saving water and energy, day after day, for many years. And we have set even more ambitious environmental goals for the future.

*hansgrohe EcoSmart uses flow limitation in showers and taps. hansgrohe CoolStart prevents hot water from running when the tap is in the starting position.

In comparison to standard hansgrohe showers, which consume an average of 15 l/min, showers with EcoSmart reduce water consumption by up to 40% and those with EcoSmart+ by up to 60%.

CoolStart taps save heating energy. When the handle is in the middle position, only cold water flows. When hot water is actually needed, the lever handle on the CoolStart tap can be simply turned to the left. 

Shower more efficiently with hansgrohe and AXOR showers

Check out a particularly family and budget-friendly range of hansgrohe showers for all: the Activera line combines outstanding showering performance with water efficiency, so your customers can enjoy blissful showering experiences while using water consciously.

more about Activera
Man stands under an Activera shower.

AXOR combines outstanding design quality with a clear commitment to durability in the AXOR Conscious Shower. High-quality materials and careful workmanship create the foundations for many years of use.

more about AXOR Shower

hansgrohe water savings calculator

Top tip: use the Hansgrohe water savings calculator during your sales pitch. The practical online tool enables you to show your customers how much they could save with EcoSmart taps and showers. 

Simply follow the relevant link to calculate the savings potential: 

Save water in a domestic household

Save water in a business project

The hansgrohe water savings calculator can estimate potential savings.

Making ecological impacts transparent  

Our sustainability activities are transparently documented through environmental product declarations, external ratings and the publication of key performance indicators. We achieve credibility with our stakeholders by being transparent about our environmental impacts. For example, we contract independent parties to verify our environmental product declarations and we participate in company rankings. 

For further details, please see our Group website.

EcoVadis platinum medal 2026

Up from 83 to 86 points: the Hansgrohe Group has received the EcoVadis platinum medal for the second year running, with a score that places it in the top 1 percent of all companies assessed. The systematic analysis used for the globally recognised rating provides greater transparency with regard to our sustainability performances.

EcoVadis platinum medal – Sustainability Rating 2026.

A- from CDP

Up from B to A-: Hansgrohe has also successfully improved its CDP climate score. CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) is a global, non-profit organisation that encourages companies to disclose comprehensive environmental and climate data.  

Environmental sticker – Climate CDP 2025: A-

Environmental product declarations (EPDs) 

Full disclosure: we publish environmental product declarations for 13 product categories from the AXOR and hansgrohe brands. These apply to around 1,800 of the bestselling chrome products in our standard range. EPDs provide information about the environmental impact of products over their entire life cycle.

EPD acc. to ISO 14025 and EN15804.

ISO certificates

From environmental through energy to occupational health and safety management systems: with ISO certifications, independent assessors confirm that we work in line with recognised international standards established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This enables us to show customers and partners that our processes meet high quality standards.   

Hansgrohe takes responsibility and acts sustainably.
Our responsibility  

Find out how the Hansgrohe Group understands and practises sustainability here.

Our responsibility
Hansgrohe’s Green Vision: lounge chair in lieu of the bath tub.
The bathroom of the future

Hansgrohe’s Green Vision: saving water, energy and CO2.

The bathroom of the future