Georg Fischer Ltd: Environmental Report 2003/2004. 37 pages.

Content

Introduction

• Adding Quality to People’s Lives (p. 3)
• The Corporation's principle of sustainable development (p. 3)
• Georg Fischer's environmental policy (p. 3)
• The year in brief (p. 4)
• The industrial corporation at a glance (p. 5)
• Core business of Georg Fischer (p. 5)
• Advanced prodcts for enhanced environmental protection (p. 6)
• Greatest environmental relevance in the Corporation: casting production (p. 6)
• Environmental relevance of the three corporate groups (p. 7)

Environmental management

• Environmental management milestones (p. 8)
• Awards and recognition (p. 8)
• Environmental management (p. 9)
• Development of environmental management (p. 9)

Environmental goals

• Environmental goals (p. 10)
• Corporate environmental goals for 2004/2005 (p. 10)
• Environmental goals of GF Automotive for 2004/2005 (p. 11)
• Environmental goals of GF Piping Systems for 2004/2005 (p. 11)
• Environmental goals of GF Machine Tools for 2004/2005 (p. 11)

CO2

• CO2-Strategy of Georg Fischer Corporation (p. 12)

BUIS

• Corporate Environmental Information System - BUIS (p. 13)
• BUIS system boundary (p. 13)

Environmental successes

• Water utilization (p. 14)
• Heat recovery and energy conservation (p. 15)
• Green power (p. 15)
• Compressed air (p. 16)
• Waste (p. 16)
• Manufacturing supplies (p. 17)

Material cycles

• Material cycles at Georg Fischer (p. 18)
• Material cycles (p. 18)

Illustration of units

• Units (p. 18)

Energy

• Energy (p. 19)
• Types of energy (p. 19)
• Process energy consupmtion decreased - efficiency increased (p. 20)
• Building energy consupmtion – decline due to decrease in effective area (p. 20)

Water

• Water from public and private supply systems (p. 21)
• Drinking water from public supply systems – consuption reduced (p. 22)
• Water from private supply systems – consumption increased (p. 23)
• Wastewater – further reduction (p. 24)

Air

• Atmospheric emissions (p. 25)
• Atmospheric emissions: related effects (p. 25)
• Atmospheric emissions from energy consumption (p. 26)
• Atmosperic emissions from energy consumption – CO2 (p. 27)
• Atmosperic emissions from energy consumption – SO2, NOx, CH4, VOC (p. 27)
• Atmosperic emissions from production processes – particulates, VOC (p. 28)

Waste

• Waste (p. 29)
• Waste categories (p. 30)
• Waste balance – total volume reduced (p. 31)
• Recycled wastes – noticeable increase in recyclable wastes (p. 32)
• Landfilled and incinerated wastes – significant reduction (p. 33)
• Hazardous waste – volumes cut by half (p. 34)

Environmental expenditures and investments

• Environmental expenditures (p. 35)
• Environmental investments (p. 36)

Contact

• Environmental management – feedback (p. 37)