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Reducing our ecological footprint
We are constantly innovating to offer better performance with a reduced ecological footprint.
We all know: when it comes to the climate crisis, it’s all-hands-on-deck time! And corporations play a huge role in this fight. At Henkel we take that responsibility seriously. Sustainability has been in our DNA ever since our inception back in 1876.
In 1992 we became one of the first companies in Germany to release an environmental report – something we have done every year since. Fast forward to today’s milestone: Our biggest beauty care production plant in Wassertrüdingen – where some of our biggest brands manufacture their products – is now CO2 neutral!
The key to this achievement is renewable energy and the use of energy efficient processes – think electricity generated by sunlight, hydropower, as well as biogas powering the whole plant.
That’s a big deal because Wassertrüdingen is where we produce 70% of our products in Europe – and now we’re saving 7,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions, annually! That’s more than 3,000 households would emit in a year. For trees to capture that much CO2, we would need to plant 599,000 of them!
Annually Wassertrüdingen consumes the energy equivalent of more than 3000 households. This is the amount of electricity used by the equivalent of 2500 households and the amount of gas used by the equivalent of 750 households to be more precise.
Our CO2 neutral production at Wassertrüdingen saves around 7500 tons of CO2 per year.
That is more than going around the world 900 times: 37.437,874km with a car (934.22 times around the world). To absorb this amount of CO2 800 football fields filled with trees would be needed (599,006 trees for one year means 838.94 soccer fields with trees). Speaking of 2021’s closing figures, Plant Wassertrüdingen manufactures about about 70% of overall production tonnage of our EU sites (out of Wassertrüdingen, Viersen, Maribor).
The next steps for our Wassertrüdingen plant are to switch to electrical vehicles to reduce the amount of CARE diesel even though it's CO2 neutral (convert from biodiesel to green electricity). And for all sites we will to continue to think about the efficiency, reduction of energy needs and costs, and continue on the decarbonization journey with more plants.