The fourth edition of the Sustainability Report provides a wealth of interesting facts and figures about Arburg, its values and its successful sustainability activities in 2023. Once again, the Report is only available online as an interactive PDF on Arburg's website in order to save resources. This year, the Lossburg-based company is also publishing a sustainability report in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards for the first time, enabling Arburg's extensive activities to be compared internationally.
The Arburg Sustainability Report in its familiar form can be found on the company's website: https://www.arburg.com/en/company/sustainability-at-arburg. As always, all the company's important activities and progress are presented here in a way that is clear and easy to understand, making for an engaging read.
The additional report is in line with the standards developed by the GRI for sustainability reports by large corporations, small- and medium-d enterprises (SMEs), governments and non-governmental organisations. This facilitates continuous and transparent dialogue on an international level with all relevant stakeholders. The aim is to standardise the facts and figures collected so that they can be compared. Both the Arburg Sustainability Report 2023 and the new GRI Report show that Arburg has once again made significant progress in the area of sustainability in the last two years.
Part of the arburgGREENworld program
The reports document the successes of the "arburgGREENworld" program, a framework within which the company aims to achieve sustainability through important goals such as resource efficiency, a reduced carbon footprint and a circular economy. One of Arburg's main objectives is to significantly reduce the carbon footprint in plastics processing through sustainable production and products, and to return plastic to the material cycle after use.
Impressive figures
In recent years, heat recovery, the intensive use of photovoltaics, wind power and geothermal energy, and the exclusive use of regional, green electricity have helped to establish a 100 per cent sustainable energy management system.
Remarkable figures also demonstrate just how sustainably Arburg operates throughout the entire company:
- 74 per cent of all waste generated in 2023 was recycled as part of its efforts to achieve a circular economy.
- Rainwater collected in a number of cisterns accounted for 20.5 per cent of total water consumption in 2023.
- In 2023, Arburg's electricity mix had an 88 per cent smaller carbon footprint than the German electricity mix. In the same year, 15 per cent of its renewable energy was self-generated.
- The company is certified five times over in accordance with ISO 9001, 14001, 29993, 50001 and 27001 for quality, environment, energy, training and IT security.
- Arburg continues to be rated with an above-average "B" by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). In addition, the greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2030 in Scopes 1, 2 and 3 that the company is pursuing as part of its climate strategy have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
- With a Gold Medal from Ecovadis, Arburg has made it into the top five per cent worldwide in the industry. EcoVadis is a comprehensive sustainability rating platform for global supply chains. In addition to the impact of business activities on the environment and activities with regard to sustainable procurement, the platform also focuses on ethics, labour rights and human rights.
- Between 2010 and 2023, these and many other measures saved a total of over 125,000 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Arburg's fourth sustainability report is an interesting read for anyone who wants to know in black and white just how sustainably the company operates - and that the journey towards conserving resources will definitely continue in the future.
