1. We minimize our company's CO2 emissions to the greatest extent possible.
Building on the construction and infrastructure initiatives already in place to reduce the CO2 footprint at our Gersthofen site, we are committed to long-term efforts to further decrease the carbon impact of our products. By increasing the use of recycled and bluesign® certified materials, alongside adopting sustainable technologies with a lower CO2 footprint, we are making significant strides. According to ECOS, extending product life cycles alone contributes 10% to footprint reduction, resulting in an 8% decrease in CO2 emissions, a 10% reduction in water usage, and a 9% reduction in waste—all while lowering resource consumption costs by 9%.
However, even with the greatest efforts, we cannot get a product to be climate neutral. That's why we offset selected products and our company site in cooperation with ClimatePartner.
2. We offset any remaining CO2 emissions that we are unable to further reduce.
When recording and calculating the remaining CO2 emissions - the so-called CO2 footprint - emissions from energy procurement as well as energy and fuel consumption are taken into account. In addition, emissions from upstream supply chains are recorded in order to be able to make complete product lines and production sites CO2 -neutral. To this end, we work together with the experts at ClimatePartner. They identify and develop offset projects worldwide. For our current climate-neutral products, we have chosen three social and climate protection projects.