Responsibility at KraussMaffei
Everyone is talking about sustainability. We want to talk less and act more. Because for us, this is not only a corporate responsibility, but also a great opportunity:
- The opportunity to expand our leading market position with efficient machines and systems.
- The opportunity to inspire our customers with solutions that enable them to meet increasing legal requirements.
- The opportunity to offer our employees long-term prospects with attractive and future-proof jobs.
- The opportunity to contribute to personal development with individual trainings.
- The opportunity to preserve our planet as a place worth living in – for us and for future generations.
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Technological Excellence
We have the greatest leverage for greater sustainability through our machines and systems. Here are some current examples of how we use them to help our customers achieve their own sustainability goals.
Topology optimization of strike plates of our GX/GXCN 551/600/650 series injection molding machines: This not only reduces the demand for raw Materials by up to 15% but also reduces logistics-related and operational emissions due to the lower weight.
Our Targets:
- We are aiming to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by 2030 at our own operations.
- We want to make our product carbon footprint climate-neutral by 2045. This goal applies on a cradle-to-gate basis, i.e. from the machine production to their departure from the factory upon delivery.
- By 2030, we want to increase the share of renewable energies in the electricity mix at our production sites to 90%.
- By 2035 at the latest, we want to reduce the groupwide energy consumption of our production facilities, measured in terms of revenue, by 30%.
- We want to reduce machine weight by 15% by 2030, based on the 2022 portfolio. In addition, our overarching goal is to make a significant contribution to realizing closed material cycles in order to effectively reduce the amount of plastic waste by further developing intelligent recycling processes and increasing the sale of corresponding technical solutions.
Sustainability starts with our own behavior. Here are some selected measures:
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At our Laatzen site, we commissioned a PV system with a projected annual output of 3.7 MWp in 2024. This will enable us to cover 43% of our electricity requirements from May to December.
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At our Jiaxing (China) site, we commissioned a PV system with a projected output of 1.18 MWp in 2024.
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With our PV system at the Parsdorf site, which is one of the largest rooftop PV systems in Europe with a capacity of 9.1 MWp, we were able to generate 5.192 MWh of solar power in 2024. This enabled us to cover 28.4% of the site's electricity requirements with climate-friendly solar power in 2024.
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In 2024, we installed an efficient cooling system at our Parsdorf site. This allows the production machines and systems to be cooled in a particularly sustainable manner using water from our own absorption well.
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We were able to increase energy efficiency with LED retrofit projects on the lighting systems at the Florence (USA) and Sučany (Slovakia) sites, as well as by installing demand-based lighting and ventilation systems at the Parsdorf site.
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With standardized leak detection on the compressed air system in Sučany, we will reduce the power consumption for the compressed air system by around 10% in the future. The introduction of demand-based power control for the cooling tower there further increases energy efficiency.
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In Laatzen, we put a total of 20 charging stations for electric vehicles into operation.
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In Jiaxing, diesel forklifts were replaced by electric forklifts.
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In Parsdorf, we conducted the first audit as part of the introduction of ISO 50001.