Producing sustainably. Conserving resources.
Our corporate goals are based not just on economic but also environmental and social factors. Wipotec uses all the potential of digitalisation to design business processes as well as products and services sustainably.
Let us start with the products: From a management perspective, the durability of our equipment is particularly important. Even machines with a production date close to when the company was founded (more than 30 years ago) are still in production use today. These exceptionally long service lives represent sustainability. Our machines conserve resources due to their long product lifetime.
Sustainable production is very important and is clearly one of our corporate goals. The energy we use comes almost exclusively from renewable sources. Not only the energy requirement of the production facilities but of the entire infrastructure is geared towards sustainability (due to the low-energy construction of production halls with underfloor heating). We have made considerable investment in our own solar farms and geothermal energy plants (on our own land) to achieve our goals.
Taking the pressure off the environment. Using renewable energies.
The efficient management of raw materials and energy is environmentally and economically worthwhile and desirable. The special vertical integration of the Wipotec value chain determines the energy requirements of our production. It is therefore particularly worth our while to identify potential energy savings in our production processes.
Our resource-saving management of upstream products, semi-finished products and energy takes the pressure off our environment and at the same time reduces the costs for production materials, energy, emissions, and disposal.
We use energy-efficient devices, systems and production facilities. The energy management system covers our entire infrastructure and production. At our primary and only production site in Kaiserslautern, we obtain the majority of our electricity from renewable energy sources such as geothermal energy and solar technology.
We use our own solar electricity to fuel our electric vehicles. In the field of e-mobility, we are also involved in a joint research project with Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences.
The facts
- Use of a wide range of renewable energy sources such as geothermal energy and photovoltaics
- Extraction of geothermal energy for heating and cooling the production halls and office buildings by means of underfloor heating and air-conditioning systems
- Operation of a solar farm for generating our own electricity for production and electric vehicles
- Production halls and administrative buildings constructed to passive house standards
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
WIPOTEC Gmbh demonstrates strong commitment to our environment day after day. Our customers appreciate this investment in our time and resources.
We have also made our environmental transparency data available to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
The publication of the data provides the basis for ambitious action and also serves CDP as a foundation for global progress towards a sustainable economy for people and the environment.
