BASF Advances fixing objective global in environingingment, health and hygiene
10 March 2014
BASF Also has foreseen to improve his sanitary ware management to promote the health and the productivity of the collaborators. In 2013 they realizar roughly 48.000 medical recognitions all over the world. BASF Aspires to reduce his broadcasts of gases of effect invernadero in 40% by metric tonne of product sold, in comparison with the figures of game of 2002 and increase the energetic efficiency (excluding oil and gas) in 35%. The company elevated his energetic efficiency in 20% in comparison with the figures of 2002 (22% in 2012) and reduced the broadcasts of gases of effect invernadero specific in 34% (33% in 2012).
“To supply power to our centres of production, depend on thermoelectric head offices combined that have turbines of gas and steam, and use the heat issued by the processes of production. Our chemical plants work with a level of efficiency above the average. In group, advance in the correct steering in matter of climatic protection. It is difficult to follow achieving big improvements because of the high level that already have reached”, explains von Deessen. In 2013, the total of broadcasts of contaminantes atmospheric reduced to 32.385 metric tonnes (30.581 metric tonnes in 2012) in comparison with the figures of 2002. What corresponds to a decrease of 62%. BASF Reduced also the broadcasts to the water of organic substances, heavy metals and nitrogen: the organic substances diminished in 79% (77% in 2012); the nitrogen kept in 87%, and the heavy metals diminished in 64% (57% in 2012) in comparison with the figures of 2002. The European Water Stewardship (EWS), voluntary industrial certification that delivers the independent organisation European Water Partnership, has awarded in almost all the European centres of BASF in zones with stress hídrico.