This article showcases our top picks for the best Denmark based Sustainability companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Sustainability industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We meticulously selected companies ranging from cutting-edge startups to established brands based on their outstanding performance in the following categories:
- Innovation: Innovative ideas, Innovative route to market, Innovative product
- Growth: Exceptional growth, Exceptional growth strategy
- Management and Societal impact
Top Sustainability Startups in Denmark
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
STAC TECHNOLOGY: Zero-emissions cooling solutions upcycle the District Energy industry’s services and reach. They are replacing harmful HFO and PFAS generating refrigerants with water.
REFLOW: Engineering a circular economy through life-cycle quantification and traceability. The company redefining how they approach green procurement & product-level emissions. Their mission is to help companies make informed decisions and take positive steps toward a greener future.
ELECTRICITY MAPS: Tomorrow builds tech products empowering people and organisations to understand and reduce their carbon footprint. Mapping the climate impact of electricity, worldwide, and in real-time. Provides companies with actionable data quantifying the carbon intensity.
MARDA: A modern sustainable swimwear brand that combine exclusive designs with a highly green vision. A modern men’s swimwear brand obsessed with creating a better world by using plastic from the oceans and landfills to make premium swim shorts that are made to last.
ROCKWOOL GROUP: World leader in stone wool solutions. They release the natural power of stone to enrich modern living. The product portfolio is well placed to tackle many of today’s biggest sustainability and development challenges.
LOGSTOR: A supplier of complete pre-insulated pipe systems that provides better energy efficiency to customers. The first company to introduce environmentally friendly products to manufacture the best insulation material.
KLIMATE: Empowers companies to compensate for their unavoidabl emissions through portfolios of carbon removal projects. They help companies achieve Net Zero by combining the world’s best carbon removal methods into portfolios that match the clients’ budgets and ambitions.
HEY-PLANET: A sustainable food production company based on insects. Create delicious products using nutritious and sustainable protein. Hey Planet exists they believe that what you eat has the power to change the world.
WORTHMORE: Donate all or part of their value of your used phones to support initiatives for a more sustainable future. Offer a refurbished phones and a buy-back program for old devices, to help minimize waste and maximize impact with minimal effort.
ARTELIA: Provides engineering consulting services in sustainable development projects for the construction, infrastructure, & energy industries. One of Denmark’s largest multidisciplinary consulting engineering companies with more than 1,100 employees in Denmark.
BAADER LOGISTIX: A designer, manufacturer, and supplier of advanced high-quality food processing machinery and solutions. BAADER is the global partner on food processing solutions with 100 years’ experience. They design and engineer innovative and holistic solutions.
ICES: An intergovernmental organisation in the world concerned with marine and fisheries science. The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is a global organization that develops science and advice to support the sustainable use of the oceans.
NORDIC SOLAR ENERGY: Owns & operates solar PV parks and produces green energy. A solar energy company owned by private shareholders. They develop, build and operate solar parks that can supply consumers and businesses with electricity from solar energy.
HUMANITRACK: A science and tech open-source knowledge hub tackling global challenges powered by an impact-driven community. Volunteering driven science and tech knowledge hubs tackling global challenges and empowering students and researchers.
BLUE ENERGY: Provides its clients with sustainable free power, fast broadband, and other benefits as per requirement. Blu energy’s mission is to deliver climate-friendly and sustainable solutions for families and households in collaboration with ambitious players in the world of sports.
JUNKBUSTERS: Provider of an application solution for collection and disposal of waste. The easy and sustainable waste management solution. With their strong focus on customer service and innovative technology, they are re-defining the waste industry.
MAGENTA: An open-source IT supplier as well as works exclusively with open source and aims to create sustainable web solutions. Optimize the business case with open source IT solutions. Magenta is Scandinavia’s largest open source IT provider.
CARCEL: A slow fashion label that enhances rural development through essential luxury clothing produced by marginalised women in prison. A circular and purpose driven choice. Copenhagen based fashion brand with a circular take on fashion.
SUSTAINIA: A think tank and consultancy. They identify readily available sustainability solutions across the world. Sustainia are researchers, case writers, and communicators who provide strategic and operational guidance to ambitious companies and organisations.
GREENONETEC: Focus on production and installation of large-scale solar thermal systems for the district heating plantand process heating. The world’s largest manufacturer of flat-plate thermal collectors with an annual production capacity of more than 1.6 million m² of collectors.
BAETTR: Work to make wind energy the most widely available and preferred source of energy in the world with minimal impact on the environment. They cooperate with international OEMs operating in the wind industry, adding tangible value to our partners’ value chain.
WORLD: They can experience the personal stories behind the headlines. WORLD is here to break through – the barriers, the stereotypes, the outmoded expectations. The public media home to award-winning documentary series.
DANSK RETURSYSTEM: A non-profit organization that mortgages drinks to ensure bottles are returned wherein they get recycled and reused. Give the students the opportunity to explore sustainability and recycling through our Returkampen course.
EGRO: A Denmark-based company that designs ecosystems with farmers in remote and dry areas of developing countries. Reversing Climate Change with Sustainable Agroforestry. They are pre-revenue early stage climate startup bootstrapping towards first product sales and proof of business.
UTG: A textile company specializing in the design and production of jersey-fashion for strong brands. United Textile Group known as UTG, was founded in 1968, is a manufacturer of private-label jersey products. They operate with a well-tested concept.
DEM: Offers a wide range of services in the areas of sustainability & energy management, energy renovation, construction & urban development. An innovative and highly specialized consulting engineering and consulting company within energy and technical installations.
SOLCELLESPECIALISTEN: Supplies solar cells to private and business customers. Main importer of SunPower solar panels. Founded at the beginning of 2011, just before the time when it really became hype about solar cells in Denmark.
AK7-IT: Specializes in the recycling of already existing IT-equipment as well as they are the buyers and sellers of hardware equipment. With almost 20 years experience in the IT industry, Ak7-it A/S is experts in purchase and sales of new and refurbished IT hardware.
WORLD KINECT ENERGY SERVICES: Specialized in energy management, fuel supply, and sustainability. WKES is a division of World Kinect Corporation, a global Fortune 100 energy management public company (NYSE Stock Symbol: WKC).
MULTIVAC: A manufacturer of integrated packaging solutions that also offer maintenance & services, renovations, and rebuilding. One of the leading suppliers of integrated packaging solutions with a focus on packaging, processing, portioning, labelling, marking, and handling.
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