At Klüber Lubrication environmental protection and powerful operations go hand in hand. We take our entrepreneurial responsibility seriously and support environmental protection and sustainability in many ways – with our speciality lubricants and customer-oriented services as well as measures enhancing sustainable internal value creation.
In line with our holistic approach, we always strive to sustainably improve our own footprint as well as the handprint of our customers. Our actions are also guided by the UNSDG (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals).
With our commitment to the UNSDG and the ten principles of the UN Global Compact of which we are a member via our parent company Freudenberg, we take account of the responsibility we bear for future generations.
For comprehensive information on our commitment to sustainability please go to our Sustainability and Responsibility report.
We would be pleased if Klüber Lubrication could help you achieve your sustainabilty goals faster, e.g. through resource conservation, higher energy efficiency, reduction of waste and other measures.
To enhance sustainability in the industry, we at Klüber Lubrication take a holistic approach, which is based on the sustainability strategy of our parent company Freudenberg and includes the entire value-added chain. To this end, two aspects are essential, which determine our actions and operations:
By footprint, we mean the approach we take in order to constantly improve or reduce our usage of energy and resources. We do this mainly through the selection and efficient use of suitable raw materials—including renewable ones—for our products and through the reduction of energy and resource consumption in our own value-added chain.
Acting sustainably at our sites is just as important to us as improving the sustainability balance of or customers. In 2018, we set ourselves the ambitious target of increasing the proportion of electricity we obtain from renewable sources to 50% by 2025, and we underpinned this with a package of relevant measures. We significantly exceeded our target ahead of schedule in 2021 with 73%, increased it to 76% in 2022 and have further raised it to 100% by 2030. Step by step, we will be shifting to green energy, as the following examples show:
Green energy Our production site in Austria is supplied with energy by a regional hydroelectric power plant and thus ensures power supply with green energy.
E-mobility For the transport between our production site in Munich and our warehouse in Maisach, we use zero-emission electric vehicles and expanded our infrastructure accordingly.
Photovoltaics At our site in Mexico we use solar energy provided by our own a photovoltaic system. Thus, we achieve a substantial emission reduction amounting to 200 tons of CO2 per year.
We are also committed to green energy at other locations: A further photovoltaic system is now in operation at our Indian production site. In Munich, we are now almost completely supplied with electricity from an external photovoltaic system via our supplier.
By handprint we mean the actions we take to support a sustainable value creation for our customers. It aims at helping our customers achieve their sustainability goals by providing our solutions and services.
Promote sustainability - ensure opportunities for future generations: more than ever sustainability in the industry is a challenge to companies.
The major challenge is to ensure efficiency and performance and at the same time deal with the environment and resources in a responsible way. For us, these aspects are not mutually exclusive, but can often be realised jointly.
Our speciality lubricants are the result of intense research and development activities performed to comply with the requirements of the future: As highly engineered and innovative solutions of increased efficiency they exactly match the requirements of our customers.
Our specialty lubricants generate positive effects, as they
With our know-how we provide global support to customers from approx. 20 industries and market segments including, for example, the automotive, cement and food-processing industries. We provide our customers with comprehensive service and advice and always keep an eye on environmental aspects, security of supply and resource conservation.
The following examples show how our products achieve success in terms of sustainability:
Wind power industry Speciality lubricants extend the service life of wind turbines, thus reducing the wind energy production costs significantly and improving our customer's competitiveness vis-à-vis other energy resources.
Cement industry By using one of our speciality lubricants, our customer InterCement in Brazil succeeded in substantially reducing resource consumption and at the same time increasing the service life of his machines.
Hydro Lubricants Our lubricants using water as a functional constituent show extremely low friction coefficients and improve workplace safety at the same time.
Klüber Energy Efficiency Our service contributes to optimising the energy efficiency of machines and plants.
To improve the footprint and handprint along the life cycle of our products, we use our sustainability scorecard in product development.
The challenges entailed by a sustainable company management and orientation are a motivation for us to create highly engineered innovative processes and solutions for the future.
Speciality lubricants based on mineral oils or natural oils normally are no mere expendable materials. They are in fact key components which enable dynamic machines, installations or other components to operate. The design, development, or modification of our lubricants and services always includes a comprehensive analysis of all relevant operative processes in terms of their sustainability. Our entire value-added chain is taken into account.
Our sustainability scorecard for innovations is an important step in this process. It considers the life cycle of a product and the intended product features. It assesses our entire value-added chain with regard to:
Our footprint and the customer benefit are correlated. If the ratio is inadequate, the product development is normally not pursued.
If you have any questions regarding the sustainability concept or our products, please do not hesitate to contact us any time.
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