Environmental Protection

Environmental protection, just like safety and health protection, is a core component of all processes at WACKER. The focus is not so much on remedial measures but on prevention – evaluation begins as early as the product-development and plant-planning stages. In accordance with the core ideas of the Responsible Care® initiative, our environmental-protection measures often go beyond what is legally required. We continuously work on conserving resources and further decoupling energy consumption and waste generation from production volume.

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Environmental Protection Costs

 

 

 

 

€ million

2008

2007

2006

 

 

 

 

Operating costs

111

103

97

Investments

27

24

19

Our sites regularly inform the public about our environmental protection activities. This includes, for example, the annual community meetings at our Nünchritz site and the Burghausen site’s yearly environmental reports.

Wolfgang Semmler – Head of Environment & Safety (foto)

Environmental protection is a core component of all processes at WACKER. To protect the climate and conserve resources, environmental experts like Wolfgang Semmler strive to close material loops and find uses for process heat.