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Autoneum Annual Report 2015 Sustainability 42
Sustainable action for
long-term success
Entrepreneurial activity significantly impacts developments in society.
With its comprehensive sustainability management, Autoneum
contributes to shaping society sustainably while ensuring long-term
corporate success at the same time. Ecological, economic and social
aspects are all integral to corporate development.
Autoneum pursues the principle of responsible
action consistently and across all its sites.
Prudent management of employees and open
dialogue with the public is just as much
part of it as the careful use of natural resources.
Accordingly, the company strives to minimize
the environmental impact of its manufacturing
processes. So in 2015, Autoneum implemented
production-related measures to increase
efficiency worldwide, in particular through
cutting down consumption of energy and water
as well as reducing waste. Thus, various sites
of all four Business Groups increased the reuse
of internal production scrap from the manu­
facture of damping materials and pieces of felt.
In addition, heavy foam production waste
from European plants has been centrally recycled
in Roßdorf-Gundernhausen, Germany, since 2015.
For long-term reductions in energy consumption,
systems for monitoring and analyzing electri-
city consumption have been installed at several
production sites in China. Improvements at
the Chongqing plant alone led to a 10% decrease
in consumption. Adjustments to production
processes and equipment in Poland, Canada,
China and the USA resulted in less water being
consumed.
Eco-efficient products
In addition to Autoneum’s resource-saving
production processes, its products also contribute
to the sustainable protection of the environment:
On the one hand, their lightweight construction
reduces vehicle weight, resulting in lower
fuel consumption and correspondingly lower CO2
emissions. On the other hand, they reduce the