The green company
“Less energy consumed is the cleanest form of energy”
“For me, Green Technology primarily means that we concentrate on what is important, on our strengths,” states company founder Gerhard Sturm. “For ebm-papst, environmental awareness is not, and never has been, a matter of extra diligence, but rather a matter of economic course. In my active days before retiring from the executive board in 2007 I made my successors take note of that, too. And therefore I am pleased to find that ebm-papst is successfully living this guiding theme.
I am absolutely convinced that there is a lot more to presenting yourself as a green company than simply offering an economical product and paying a little lip service. It also needs conviction — one that is lived every single day. Take for example our new plant at Hollenbach. The savings realised here are about 90 percent compared to conventional technology.
Or take my own personal involvement with the Hotel Jagstmühle. The hotel generates its own electricity. I invested 100,000 euro in a new generator and turbine as well as an air/water heat pump for cooling and heating. Saving money by saving energy. As simple as that sounds, it demands the will to view the task as a whole and to solve the challenge in the best possible way.
When ebm was founded, we were driven by the challenge of being better than the competition. Every newly developed product should be technically and above all economically better than its predecessor. Lower consumption, that means less to pay, was a selling point even then, and in the future it will become even more important. That was the standard we set ourselves when we designed the first EC motor in 1970. But demanding more economical products inevitably means keeping the amount of energy and materials consumed during production as small as possible, and thus producing as little waste as possible — because waste also costs money.
Without constantly keeping an eye on the purely environmental aspect, ebm-papst has developed a green awareness from economic considerations. The company has not just retained this drive until today, it has even expanded it — at Mulfingen, St. Georgen and Landshut, and at other worldwide locations.”
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