SUEZ innovation serving the essentials : water and waste

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We are innovating to address the challenges of today and tomorrow

Established at the heart of our communities means, we are the leading reference for building a sustainable future together. Our mission is to support you with the major ecological transitions and help you use resources more efficiently, more sustainably and more responsibly, and we are committed to working alongside you to:

Acting for people

Through our solutions and expertise, we ensure access to essential services that guarantee health and sanitation for populations.

Supporting development and security in communities

We contribute to local economic attractiveness, strengthen resilience, and promote communities’ self-sufficiency.

Protecting our planet

We preserve resources within planetary boundaries, protect biodiversity, manage risks, actively combat climate change, and work toward adaptation.

To achieve these aims, we are focusing on innovation that is:

Targeted

We allocate our resources in order to maximise efficiency and achieve practical results for our customers and stakeholders.

User-oriented

We firmly believe that innovation arises from real day-to-day needs: those of our customers, our partners and the users we serve.

Collaborative

We have a collaborative, open approach to innovation, recognising that the complex challenges we face require solutions developed using a diverse range of expertise. We therefore encourage working in partnership and co-creation.

Our 5 priorities in terms of accelerating the major transitions

To help our customers manage water resources and waste more effectively, we are pursuing innovation projects focusing on 5 key themes.

Innovation at the heart of our strategy

To deal with the transformation of the environmental services sector and meet the increasing needs of our customers, we have been increasing our transformation, innovation and collaboration capabilities since 2022.

These resources enable us to fulfil our ambition:

+ 50 %
increase in the budget dedicated to R&D and innovation by 2027
X

2
More innovation in waste, with a doubling in the budget allocated to innovative projects to increase the effectiveness of recycling and exploit the full potential of waste as a source of energy
X

4
Fourfold increase in the carbon reduction budget.
At SUEZ, we are using innovation as a way of achieving the goals set out in our 2023-2027 sustainable development roadmap.

> 200
research and innovation projects underway within the Group

360° innovation

At SUEZ, we create resilient, innovative solutions that add a large amount of value in technical terms. We also innovate in order to create social value and encourage more sustainable consumption.

We take a 360° approach to innovation, allowing our customers to drive the ecological transition by relying on our strengths:

  • Our historical expertise in engineering, construction and operations, which enables us to design facilities that are competitive and environmentally friendly and that create resources for communities.
  • Our ability to offer performance-enhancing digital tools. At SUEZ, we use digital technology as a way of optimising the performance of our clients’ infrastructure, to increase waste sorting and recycling, and to preserve water quality. Day-to-day, our water and waste operational databases support the development of new solutions based on artificial intelligence.
  • Our involvement in all parts of an innovation’s value chain and development cycle, from design to industrialisation, capitalising on the diversity of our sites and research centres.
  • Our Open Innovation approach. Collaboration lies at the heart of our innovation approach. This is why we work closely with top universities and other academic institutions, and collaborate with large numbers of innovative startups and small and medium-sized companies.
  • Supporting customers through behavioural, social and contractual innovation. We are building an integrated ecosystem so that we can have a complementary range of skills, in order to offer innovative financial models and help customers reduce their consumption of resources.

A network combining centres of excellence and experts working in the field

We are able to design and trial major innovations through our research centres of excellence around the world and our in-house network of over 1,300 experts across 20 countries, specialising in 19 areas covering water and waste but also broader topics such as healthcare, carbon and data.

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Innovation Day 2025

On 10 April 2025, we gathered our customers, our partners and our experts for our new SUEZ Innovation Day: an international event to plunge into the heart of our latest innovations, responding to the major challenges of our time and the issues of our customers.

SUEZ Innovation Day - 2025

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2025 Innovation Day Press Kit

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