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 | |||
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2006 |
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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) Wolfgang Semmler – Head of Environment & Safety (foto)](pics/img/28a.jpg)
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.