Comprehensive responsibility for all products
voestalpine produces and develops products and system solutions in close collaboration with its customers and suppliers and takes ecological requirements, such as a long useful life, conservation of resources, and optimum reusability/recyclability/recoverability into consideration.
Optimization of production processes
In operating its plants and facilities, voestalpine applies state-of-the-art technology as far as economically reasonable and minimizes the environmental impact of its production sites. Efficient use of raw materials and energy is of primary importance to voestalpine.
Implementation of environmental management systems
voestalpine facilitates the development of environmental management systems in its Group companies. The core of these management systems is compliance with environmental provisions and continuous improvement programs.
Employee involvement
voestalpine sees environmental protection and continuous improvement as the responsibility of each individual employee at all levels and in all business sectors. Responsible and expert employees ensure that technical facilities are operated at an optimum level and contribute to continuous improvement through environmentally conscious behavior.
Open and objective dialogue
As a basis for shared, sustainable solutions, voestalpine maintains an open and objective dialogue with internal and external interest groups regarding all environmental issues relevant to the Group. voestalpine particularly encourages a Group-wide exchange of knowledge among all the production sites.