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injection moulding
Wittmann's Eco Power 55-350
Sustainability for suppliers
is becoming a must
As a one-stop-shop supplier to the injection moulding industry, the Wittmann
Group is well aware of the sustainability requirements that customers today are
demanding. Michael Wittmann, CEO of the Wittman Group, talked to Sustainable
Plastics about how these are contributing to the strategy choices made today at the
company his father founded in 1976.
iar face in the industry; Thomas
Wittmann, who handles production
operations, runs the
company's manufacturing and
assembly plant in Mosonmagyaróvár,
Hungary.
Like Wittmann, the plastics
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n the 46 years since Wittmann
Kunststoffgeräte
GmbH was founded in Vienna
in 1976 by Dr. Werner
Wittmann, the company has
grown beyond all recognition.
Wittmann, initially launched to
produce flow regulators, is today
a major player in the market
for robots, injection moulding
machines and auxiliary equipment
for the plastics processing
industry. The company is still
owned and run by the Wittmann
family: Werner Wittmann's sons,
Michael and Thomas, have both
joined the business and a third
generation is standing in the
wings. As the CEO of the Wittmann
Group, Michael is a familEmissions
are broken down into three categories
by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol in
order to better understand the source.
Scope 1 - All Direct Emissions from the activities
of an organisation or under their control. Including
fuel combustion on site such as gas boilers,
fleet vehicles and air-conditioning leaks.
Scope 2 - Indirect Emissions from electricity
purchased and used by the organisation.
industry has also seen considerable
change over the past
half century. Today, concepts
such as environmental protection,
sustainability and the circular
economy are increasingly
determining strategies and
choices. So, what's the role of
injection moulding machinery
suppliers in helping customers
achieve this, we wondered.
Basically, said Michael
Wittmann, our role is to help
our customers achieve their
sustainability goals and to meet
their obligations.
Emissions are created during the production
of the energy and eventually used by the organisation.
Scope
3 - All Other Indirect Emissions from
activities of the organisation, occurring from
sources that they do not own or control. These
are usually the greatest share of the carbon
footprint, covering emissions associated with
business travel, procurement, waste and water.
" It's why we've put such an
emphasis on sustainability
and energy efficiency. We are
spending money and a significant
amount of research and
development on energy efficiency.
As a supplier, our customers
are also pushing us in
that direction. Today, customers
not only want, but they expect
their suppliers to have their sustainability
strategies in order.
Is that as a company or just
the products these suppliers
produce?
" Both. And so, we do this in a
number of ways, " he explained.
The Wittmann Group, he said,
plans to take part, for example,
in the CDP programme. CDP
is a not-for-profit charity that
runs the global environmental
disclosure system. Short
for Carbon Disclosure Project,
it has developed an independent
scoring methodology that
allows investors, companies,
cities, states and regions to
measure their environmental
risk in order to better manage
this strategically. The score assigned
to a company runs from
category A to category D and is
determined on the basis of the
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