A focus on the environment and resources
A focus on the environment and resources
A focus on the environment and resources
A focus on the environment and resources
GEALAN produces high-quality PVC profiles. We place great importance on using resources efficiently and continuously reducing the environmental impact of our production. For more than 25 years, GEALAN has demonstrated that this is fully compatible with the company’s economic viability.
GEALAN produces high-quality PVC profiles. We place great importance on using resources efficiently and continuously reducing the environmental impact of our production. For more than 25 years, GEALAN has demonstrated that this is fully compatible with the company’s economic viability.
GEALAN produces high-quality PVC profiles. We place great importance on using resources efficiently and continuously reducing the environmental impact of our production. For more than 25 years, GEALAN has demonstrated that this is fully compatible with the company’s economic viability.
GEALAN produces high-quality PVC profiles. We place great importance on using resources efficiently and continuously reducing the environmental impact of our production. For more than 25 years, GEALAN has demonstrated that this is fully compatible with the company’s economic viability.
Principles
One of our more recent milestones was our decision to power the administration department at our Oberkotzau headquarters – as well as our Tanna plant in Thuringia – using entirely renewable energy. GEALAN now covers its entire electricity needs at both sites with energy that comes 100 per cent from wind, sun, water, biomass or geothermal energy. This latest conversion to green electricity is a logical next step among a number of initiatives and part of a corporate philosophy we’ve been practising for decades.
We’re all well aware of the environmental challenges and necessities of this time. Using existing resources sensibly and thus protecting the environment has been one of the most urgent tasks for a long time now. The GEALAN Group is also committed to this goal for society as a whole.
Saving on raw materials and energy is also achievable nowadays because people work much more efficiently. This is where new technical innovations can help us just as much as organisational improvements or sophisticated processes.
Our employees play an important role in terms of GEALAN’s sustainability. They carry out their tasks independently, in a quality-conscious, environmentally aware and resource-conserving manner, and with an awareness that their performance has a direct impact on our corporate success.
At GEALAN, we already pay attention to the energy efficiency of products and their potential impact on people and the environment when we procure them. We want to be a strong, reliable partner for our customers, suppliers, authorities, the public and our employees. It’s thus a matter of course for us to comply with legal and other requirements, as well as to communicate openly and transparently with various stakeholders.
One of our key principles is to take social, societal and environmental aspects into account in every business decision. Putting this into practice is not a given. At GEALAN, it is. We regard environmental protection and resource efficiency as essential components of our corporate strategy.
The Management
Ivica Maurović (Spokesperson for the Executive Board and Managing Director for Sales, Marketing and Systems Development), Tino Albert Managing Director Technology and Finance)
In praxis
For more than 30 years, GEALAN has operated environmental management systems and implemented measures to improve resource efficiency, save energy and promote recycling. With the introduction of an environmental management system in 1996, environmental and resource considerations were systematically integrated into the company’s processes.
Recycling
Recycling
As a co-shareholder of REWINDO, GEALAN has committed to using recycled material from end-of-life windows in the core of its profiles. This material is obtained through an established recycling loop for end-of-life window PVC within the window industry. In this way, PVC from end-of-life windows is processed so that the recycled PVC material can be reused in new window profiles.
Green electricity
Green electricity
By switching to green electricity, GEALAN in Oberkotzau saves a good 1,900 tonnes of CO2 annually. At our Tanna production facility, a whopping 16,000 tonnes of CO2 is saved annually. The company’s ecological footprint is thus further improved, as neither CO2 emissions nor radioactive waste are produced in the generation of green electricity.
EMAS
EMAS
Since 1996, GEALAN has repeatedly and successfully put its corporate sustainability to the demanding test of the European Environmental Management System EMAS – both at our headquarters in Oberkotzau and in our Tanna production facility. GEALAN was thus one of the first companies in the plastics industry to demonstrate social responsibility in this way.
VINYLPLUS®
VINYLPLUS®
The VinylPlus® initiative was founded in 2000 for the European PVC industry. GEALAN has been a certified partner of VinylPlus® since 2019. In the meantime, more than 200 companies from the PVC industry, non-governmental organisations and over 170 recycling companies are participating across Europe to ensure a common value chain for PVC.
ISCC PLUS
ISCC PLUS
GEALAN has been ISCC Plus certified since January 2024. This voluntary certification enables the traceable origin, in accordance with the ISCC PLUS mass balance system, of bio-based and circular raw materials in the production and supply chains of our GEALAN profiles. All types of biomass, waste and residues, as well as non-biological renewable energy, can be certified under ISCC Plus.
Our certifications – chronology of GEALAN’s sustainability strategy
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