Introduction | |
Adding Quality to People’s Lives | 3 |
The Corporation's principle of sustainable development | 3 |
Georg Fischer's environmental policy | 3 |
The year in brief | 4 |
The industrial corporation at a glance | 5 |
Core business of Georg Fischer | 5 |
Advanced prodcts for enhanced environmental protection | 6 |
Greatest environmental relevance in the Corporation: casting production | 6 |
Environmental relevance of the three corporate groups | 7 |
Environmental management | |
Environmental management milestones | 8 |
Awards and recognition | 8 |
Environmental management | 9 |
Development of environmental management | 9 |
Environmental goals | |
Environmental goals | 10 |
Corporate environmental goals for 2004/2005 | 10 |
Environmental goals of GF Automotive for 2004/2005 | 11 |
Environmental goals of GF Piping Systems for 2004/2005 | 11 |
Environmental goals of GF Machine Tools for 2004/2005 | 11 |
CO2 | |
CO2-Strategy of Georg Fischer Corporation | 12 |
BUIS | |
Corporate Environmental Information System - BUIS | 13 |
BUIS system boundary | 13 |
Environmental successes | |
Water utilization | 14 |
Heat recovery and energy conservation | 15 |
Green power | 15 |
Compressed air | 16 |
Waste | 16 |
Manufacturing supplies | 17 |
Material cycles | |
Material cycles at Georg Fischer | 18 |
Material cycles | 18 |
Illustration of units | |
Units | 18 |
Energy | |
Energy | 19 |
Types of energy | 19 |
Process energy consupmtion decreased - efficiency increased | 20 |
Building energy consupmtion – decline due to decrease in effective area | 20 |
Water | |
Water from public and private supply systems | 21 |
Drinking water from public supply systems – consuption reduced | 22 |
Water from private supply systems – consumption increased | 23 |
Wastewater – further reduction | 24 |
Air | |
Atmospheric emissions | 25 |
Atmospheric emissions: related effects | 25 |
Atmospheric emissions from energy consumption | 26 |
Atmosperic emissions from energy consumption – CO2 | 27 |
Atmosperic emissions from energy consumption – SO2, NOx, CH4, VOC | 27 |
Atmosperic emissions from production processes – particulates, VOC | 28 |
Waste | |
Waste | 29 |
Waste categories | 30 |
Waste balance – total volume reduced | 31 |
Recycled wastes – noticeable increase in recyclable wastes | 32 |
Landfilled and incinerated wastes – significant reduction | 33 |
Hazardous waste – volumes cut by half | 34 |
Environmental expenditures and investments | |
Environmental expenditures | 35 |
Environmental investments | 36 |
Contact | |
Environmental management – feedback | 37 |