Sustainability Report 2023
The sustainability report summarises all efforts in a holistic strategy and underlines the importance of the topic in the plastics industry.
The sustainability report summarises all efforts in a holistic strategy and underlines the importance of the topic in the plastics industry.
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Sustainable Focus Areas / 05/ Environment<br />
ENGEL<br />
<strong>Sustainability</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
which represents 24.0 percent of the company’s<br />
total energy consumption.<br />
In addition to reducing the consumption of<br />
non-renewable energies, ENGEL also intends<br />
to further strengthen the use of renewable energies.<br />
In this context, ENGEL is planning additional<br />
investments into the expansion of photovoltaic<br />
systems at ENGEL locations worldwide.<br />
The foundation has been laid: The ENGEL sites<br />
in Schwertberg, St. Valentin and York are already<br />
equipped with photovoltaic systems. The photovoltaic<br />
system at the headquarters in Schwertberg<br />
was put into operation in April 2022. With<br />
2,808 modules, which corresponds to 5,789 m²,<br />
a nominal 1,165.32 kWp can be generated.<br />
That means that it is currently possible to cover<br />
around ten percent of electricity requirements<br />
at the Schwertberg site with the company’s<br />
own photovoltaic system.<br />
Measures to increase the energy efficiency<br />
within the plants are implemented continuously.<br />
The current projects include a reduction of the<br />
demand for pressurised air, heat recovery from<br />
production processes, LED lighting and temperature<br />
management in the production halls.<br />
In the St. Valentin site, for example, the hall<br />
lighting for construction stages 1–6 was replaced<br />
by LED. This enables savings of 1,350,000 kWh<br />
per year. Furthermore, since January <strong>2023</strong>, the<br />
waste heat in the local hardening shop has<br />
been used for internal energy consumption.<br />
In order to further reduce the internal energy<br />
consumption, an internal CO 2<br />
pricing will be<br />
added to the total cost analysis prepared for<br />
internal decisions on awarding future purchasing<br />
contracts.<br />
As described above, the objectives and<br />
strategy of the energy policy pursued by ENGEL<br />
Group consist of reducing the company’s internal<br />
energy consumption and emissions as well<br />
as those resulting from the use of ENGEL machines<br />
at customer sites. ENGEL is on the right<br />
path to assume the role of a pioneer and industry<br />
leader. ENGEL is firmly committed to offering<br />
its customers the best-possible products<br />
while keeping energy costs and emissions low.<br />
Therefore, ENGEL is commiting to the Science<br />
Based Target Initiative, reducing all Scope 1<br />
and Scope 2 emissions by 50% and Scope 3<br />
emissions by 42% by 2030 compared with 2022.<br />
The position of Head of <strong>Sustainability</strong> Management<br />
was successfully filled in fiscal year<br />
2022/23. The central task of this position is to<br />
further accelerate our sustainable transformation<br />
process and further expand our leadership<br />
role in the area of sustainability.<br />
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Energy<br />
ENGEL is planning additional investments<br />
into the expansion of photovoltaic systems<br />
at ENGEL locations worldwide.<br />
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