Green operations

Our own environmental performance

Alfa Laval is addressing our internal environmental processes to make less impact and support sustainability, all gathered under Green Operations. The Green Operations activities are driven through our line organization, ensuring a long-term approach where these issues become a natural part of our work. To coordinate the initiatives the Environmental Council was founded in 2006. Green Operations include the implementation of Environmental Management Systems and improvements. We are focusing on a limited number of areas to get the most impact.

Key targets for manufacturing sites

(baseline 2011, target 2015)

• Improve energy efficiency by 12 percent
• Reduce water consumption by 20 percent
• Reduce restricted chemicals usage by 50 percent
• Reduce Greenhouse gas from freight transportation by 12 percent

Actions to our targets, and further

• Developing products with less resource usage
• Conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) on our products and increasing awareness of the outcome
• Establishing CO2 smart Supply chains including suppliers and transports
• Creating energy and water smart processes
• Reducing chemical usage