Sustainable Production – Between Obligation and Profit 
Will your company soon be obliged to report on sustainability in accordance with the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)? Is the rising cost of raw materials and energy eating into your profits? Or do you feel a sense of responsibility for climate protection and want to gradually decarbonize your production? No matter which of these questions applies to you, the answer is always the same: you need to start transforming your processes to ensure sustainable production.
Banks and investors will soon be exerting just as much pressure as legislators are doing today. A gradual increase in the price of CO2 certificates is also foreseeable, as a result of which the cost pressure will intensify further unless the production process is made more climate-friendly. And more and more often, even small and medium-sized companies not directly affected by legal regulations are having to meet the requirements of their major customers, who are also required to take supply chain effects into account in their own CO2 balance sheets.
Yet a more efficient use of energy and raw materials can pay off in just a few years. And in most cases, unlike in steel production with hydrogen, there is no need to bring a new process to market readiness first. For most production plants, many technologies to increase efficiency and benefit the climate are already available today.
As many factors are interrelated, the greatest challenge is making the right decision: What processes, what materials and what technologies are truly climate-friendly in the long term? And will they actually pay off?
The extensive opportunities offered by sustainability and the fact that the transformation to climate-friendly production is not just a matter of investments, but is often also a lucrative business case, are set out in the white paper “Sustainable Production is Feasible – Now!”, which you can download here.