Results of precise process analysis and evaluation

Environmental goals

Less solvent, lower energy consumption, and less waste – those are the core goals of the tesa environmental program.

Continously decreasing energy consumption of tesa Group Germany

Starting from a systematic evaluation of all our business and production processes with an eye to the environmental effects and risks involved, we have developed and implemented projects that demonstrate our commitment to environmental excellence.

At the same time, we subject our environmental projects to an annual monitoring process in which the company management determines the projects’ effectiveness by comparing their achievements with the goals originally set. If there is any gap between the two, we start additional activities – a step that has not yet been necessary.

Objectives 2007

We were able to meet our environmental goals, as well as our business ones, every year from 2002 through 2007, and in two of our main areas of focus we were even able to exceed them by a considerable amount: For example, our energy consumption dropped by 25 percent, our use of solvents by 42 percent, and the quantity of waste we generate fell by 10 percent, exactly the goal we were aiming for. These successes were possible only due to our employees’ deep-seated knowledge.

With about 70 individual projects, all the international tesa locations contributed to our environmental program, which is headed up by the tesa Environmental Committee.

Objectives 2012

Assuming comparable production quantities, we intend to achieve the following reductions from 2007 through 2012 in the context of our current environmental program: