Scania Annual Report 2011

SCANIA’S SUSTAINABILITY WORK
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Operation
To support the sustainability work of its customers,
Scania offers environmentally adapted
products and services such as driver training,
active driver follow-up and coaching and specially
adapted servicing.
By optimising a vehicle, its fuel consumption
can be lowered by as much as 10 percent.
An equal saving can be achieved with the help
of recurrent driver training. Carbon dioxide
emissions can be further reduced by using
renewable fuels.
Scania also helps promote the health of its
customers, and especially their drivers. Scania
Driver Care is a programme that was developed
to provide drivers with advice about health,
diet, exercise and working environment.
Service
Scania’s service network consists of more than
1,600 service workshops. In this network, environmental
work is integrated into day-to-day
efforts to achieve continuous improvements.
The employees are involved in developing the
best solution, streamlining process flows and
eliminating any waste of time and resources.
Another important element of this process is
improving environmental efforts, ergonomics
and the working environment. Visualisation,
personal dedication and cross-functional
collaboration are crucial ingredients. As one
step in this development work and to identify
best practices, Scania has established model
workshops in Brazil, France, Sweden and elsewhere
in the world where service technicians
from other workshops are trained to use new,
improved working methods.
End-of-life treatment
A truck is 95 percent commercially recyclable. Scania provides dismantling and disposal
manuals to ensure proper end-of-life treatment of vehicles. Through systematic
material selection, identification of materials and phasing out of hazardous substances,
Scania achieves a safer working environment, minimised environmental impact and
high recyclability, enabling a higher percentage of materials to be reused.
Illustration: Kjell Thorsson
Report of the directors Scania 2011