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At our Vehicle Group plant in Tczew, Poland, reusing supplier packaging for customer shipments, as well as a range of new energy saving measures, is significantly reducing our environmental impact.
In Tczew, Poland, we’re striving to reduce our site’s environmental footprint by implementing a smarter approach to packaging, as well as varied energy saving initiatives.
Part of our Vehicle Group, the Tczew facility produces superchargers and rotors, shafts, fuel valves, clutches, and more, for truck and passenger car manufacturers that help to reduce transport pollution worldwide. While Tczew has been a zero waste-to-landfill site since 2015, we’re going further at the facility to meet our ambitious sustainability targets for 2030 — limiting global warming and reducing our consumption of natural resources.
In 2020, we implemented a new waste management initiative to reuse packaging from our suppliers. We also deployed new energy saving measures, including equipment upgrade, automatic switch-off units, and more, to reduce electricity consumption at the site.
Thinking differently to deliver on sustainability
With the Tczew site constantly receiving automotive components from our global suppliers, a great many wooden pallets and cardboard boxes were being sent for recycling each year. However, reusing supplier packaging offered us the opportunity to reduce both waste and consumption of new materials. With customer approval, we began reusing the disposable packaging received from a supplier to ship finished products to our plant in Mexico. Soon after, we seized another opportunity to reuse supplier packaging for shipments to our facility in Brazil, as well as to customers.
Small changes make a big environmental impact
The successful efforts at our Tczew facility reflect our firm commitment to prevent pollution and to conserve natural resources wherever possible.
With initiatives implemented in 2020, we’ve reduced the volume of packaging consumed in our operations — saving around 30 tons of wood and 15 tons of cardboard each year. This packaging change also made day-to-day work at the facility easier and reduced the shipping weight of products, creating knock-on benefits in terms of lower transport emissions.
As a result of this success, we’re seeking new opportunities to reuse disposable packaging. We’re also working to implement a returnable packaging program between Tczew and our plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, which will eliminate approximately 100 tons of wood and 18 tons of cardboard waste per year.
In terms of energy saving, in 2020, additional measures have helped us to reduce our annual energy consumption at Tczew, which translates to more than a 500 tons reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. While we continue to seek new opportunities for energy efficiency, we’re now keen to go even further. By installing a new 1MW generator fueled by natural gas, we hope to meet up to 40% of our electricity needs — producing both power and heating for the facility. This will significantly reduce our CO2 emissions by migrating away from Poland’s coal-dominated energy grid.
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