After a complete environmental administration system was constructed, Hamm AG was licensed in keeping with ISO 2020 14001 on the finish of November 2020. This can assist the corporate proceed to enhance its environmental efficiency sooner or later, cut back emissions even additional and save assets.

Environmental safety is significant

Hamm AG has been engaged on constructing an environmental administration system since 2018. Two positions, amongst others, had been created as a part of this – an environmental administration consultant and an vitality consultant. 

“Defending the setting is significant for us. This is applicable each to our operations as a producing firm, and to our merchandise. It goes with out saying that we subsequently adjust to the statutory laws. We’ve got additionally recognized additional potential for enchancment by way of our environmental administration system in an effort to cut back our use of assets and vitality consumption, and to restrict our affect on the setting,” explains Hamm director Dr Stefan Klumpp concerning the curler producer’s environmental coverage. 

This has been part of the Hamm philosophy for a few years. Consequently, the administration constructing has been heated and cooled through a geothermal vitality system, that’s to say, utilizing renewable vitality from the soil, since 2013. This permits Hamm to scale back CO2 manufacturing by 60 tonnes yearly. 

CO2 emissions have additionally been drastically decreased in lots of areas in manufacturing. One instance is the trainee undertaking, which systematically identifies and eliminates losses within the compressed air system. One other undertaking was the event of a particular low-solvent, one-layer paint for the drums in cooperation with the paint suppliers. This helped cut back emissions from solvents and related substances (VOC=Risky Natural Compounds) by round 10 %. 

Regularly bettering environmental efficiency

In getting ready for the ISO 14001 certification, all of Hamm’s operational processes almost about assets, emissions and vitality consumption had been analysed initially. With its environmental administration system, the curler producer will constantly optimize its environmental efficiency, that’s to say, its contribution to bettering environmental safety. With this in thoughts, ISO 14001 stipulates that concrete targets should be set. 

“On this regard, we are going to optimize heating within the manufacturing halls to allow us to scale back gasoline consumption, for instance. There may be additionally potential in the case of waste – we plan to scale back the quantity of waste per machine by 20 % by 2023. There are a selection of measures vital to attain this; our logistics, buying and manufacturing planning groups can be placing these in place step-by-step,” says plant supervisor Dirk Pressgott, who’s accountable for environmental administration.