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Environmental Protection

 

 

 

At WACKER, environmental protection begins as early as the product-development and plant-planning stages. Our aim is to minimize emissions. Our environmental-protection measures often go beyond what is legally required. WACKER does not set any groupwide goals for reducing emissions, but the individual sites and business divisions set annual targets. These relate directly to the emissions of the individual sites and the requirements of the neighborhood and environment.

 

 

 

Goals

Corporate Entity

Deadline

 

 

 

Reduce specific energy consumption by 10%
(referenced to 2006)

Burghausen and Nünchritz
 

2009
 

Certify key production subsidiaries as national companies with low environmental impact (by the Environmental Protection Bureau, China):
Wacker Chemicals (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd.
Wacker Chemicals Fumed Silica (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd.
Wacker Polymer Systems (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.

WACKER Greater China
 
 
 
 
 

2010
 
 
 
 
 

Increase the amount of reusable containers used as shipping packaging for 300 mm wafers from 20 to 30%
(relative to 2008 figure)

Siltronic sites in Burghausen and Singapore
 

2010
 
 

Expand annual polysilicon capacity to 35,000 metric tons. Used in photovoltaic modules, this amount of silicon can prevent around 200 million tons of carbon dioxidecarbon dioxideover the lifespan of the modules (up to 30 years).

Groupwide

2011

Workplace Safety

 

 

 

Goals

Corporate Entity

Deadline

 

 

 

Reduce accident frequency (number of accidents with missed workdays per one million hours worked) from 3.8 (in 2007) to 1.9

Groupwide
 

2011
 

Certify all WACKER sites to the internationally recognized OHSAS work safety management system

Groupwide

2011

Employees

 

 

 

Goals

Corporate Entity

Deadline

 

 

 

Demography: expand age-pattern analyses and determine the need for action at our sites outside Germany

Sites outside Germany
 

2010
 

Set up a program for attracting promising young people (“Talent Relationship Management”) and a pool of talent for functions critical to success

Domestic Group
 
 

2010
 
 

Implement groupwide standards on occupational health and safety (13 areas of activity); checked through audits

US and Asian sites
 

USA: 2009
Asien: 2010

Product Safety and Product Stewardship

 

 

 

Goals

Corporate Entity

Deadline

 

 

 

Evaluate substance safety and register substances > 1,000 metric tons a year as part of REACH efforts

Groupwide
 

2010
 

Implement the European regulation on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)

Groupwide

2010

Sustainability Management

 

 

 

Goals

Corporate Entity

Deadline

1

Includes all business divisions (key production sites) and corporate departments.

 

 

 

Certify the Group to ISO 9001 (quality) and ISO 14001 (environment); Group certification1

Groupwide
 

2011
 

Employee Suggestion Scheme: reach a total benefit from suggestions of at least €10 million per year

Domestic Group
 

From 2009 to 2011
 

Employee Suggestion Scheme: increase the participation rate (number of submitters per 100 employees) from 28 to 50% (referenced to 2008)

Domestic Group

bis 2011