56 Changing environmental needsProtecting the climate, reducing costs.Shifting to environmentally friendly forms of energy andusing energy more efficiently are major activities in theHSE management of the HARTMANN GROUP. To helpprotect the climate and save valuable resources, we useintegrated energy management.Energy consumption or energy efficiency of our plants and processes areimportant success indicators for our energy management. Therefore, wehave started to collect these indicators throughout the Group and presentthem in a coherent way. The goal is to monitor the development of consumptionindependently of changes in our Group of companies. In 2010, energyconsumption in the HARTMANN GROUP* was about 160 million kilowatthours.Related to sales, we have gradually reduced energy consumptionsince 2007. This development shows the effectiveness of our measures toimprove energy efficiency and reduce CO 2 emissions from our plants andprocesses.Development of energy consumptionrelated to consolidated salesin the HARTMANN GROUP*, in kilowatt hours;index basis : December 31, 200713012011010090802007 2008 2009 2010100 192.1 182.9 82100 107.5 121.8 127.4kilowatt hours/consolidated sales consolidated sales* 32 production, logistics and administrative sites; of these in Europe: Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain,Italy, Austria, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary; of these outside Europe:China, India, South Africa, USASaving potential grows with state-of-the-art technology –and we use itWhether lighting, heating, hot water, air-conditioning or cooling, compressedair, motors, or office equipment and facility management – innovativeconcepts and technologies provide great energy saving and efficiencypotential in all these areas. To assess this, HARTMANN has conductedcomprehensive analyses since 2008 and launched a Group-wide energysaving program including carbon dioxide balance. Ralf Kienzle, Head ofHealth, Safety, and Environment Management, emphasizes the necessity of asystematic approach: “The various locations have already launched effectiveenergy-saving projects in the last few years. What we need now is a methodologicalapproach. Therefore, we seek to combine all energy programs in theHARTMANN GROUP and provide a Group-wide carbon dioxide accounting.This also provides the basis for Group-wide controlling to control themeasures and evaluate their effectiveness.”“Year of Energy” opens new energy chapter at KOBAt our subsidiary KOB, the world’s largest manufacturer of elastic medicaltextiles, the Year of Energy 2009 was a great success: “In our yarn dyeingplant, we were able to reduce energy consumption by half compared to theprevious year,” Heiko Wehner, Managing Director of KOB Medical Devices(Germany) GmbH, said happily.To counteract the increased world market prices for energy, KOB declared2009 the Year of Energy and put into place a comprehensive series ofmeasures to further systemize the various energy-saving measures. The focushas been on implementing the new European standard DIN EN 16001 forenergy management systems. From evaluating the situation through potentialand detailed analyses to energy controlling, all processes were reviewedand new concepts realized.
HARTMANN GROUP 57Efficiency – competitive edge for energy-intensive plants36 percent reduction in power consumption per kilogram of cellulosewadding production: this remarkable increase in energy efficiency wasachieved by our Austrian subsidiary, PAUL HARTMANN Ges.m.b.H., inGrimmenstein, Lower Austria, between 2003 and 2009. During the sametime frame, it also realized a reduction in the two-digit percentage range forthe remaining energy consumption values. The related 14 percent reductionof specific CO 2 emissions at the location is also remarkable.“In our yarn dyeing plant,we were able to reduce energyconsumption by half comparedto the previous year.”Heiko Wehner, Managing Director of KOB Medical Devices (Germany)Consumption of energy in the manufacturing and processing of cellulosewadding is a major production and competitive factor. In view of the highenergy prices and environmentally harmful CO 2 emissions, it is particularlyimportant for our subsidiary, which produces high-value cellulose productswith about 70 employees, to improve its energy balance. This task has beencontinually addressed in the last few years and has met with great success:waste heat from machines was used to heat rooms, loss by leakage fromcompressed air systems was systematically prevented by regularly carryingout ultrasonic measurements. In addition, the plant‘s internal steam generationfor paper production was optimized. In Grimmenstein, a central elementof energy management is also to raise employee awareness in dealing withvaluable resources. The Environmental Manager at the location, JohannesWiederkum, pointed out that efforts in energy management will becontinued: “Above all, we intend to further improve our environmentalperformance in the future. To this end, we are currently examining the costefficiency of restarting the turbine plant, which would allow us to use localwater power for generating electricity.”Networking solution for sustainable use of energyDepending on the availability of sun, wind, or biomass, renewable energiesrequire different concepts of utilization. IVF HARTMANN <strong>AG</strong>, Switzerland,saves up to 1,550 liters of heating oil each day by using biogas from aneighboring waste treatment plant to operate their thermal power station.Today, biogas therefore supplies 30 percent of their electric power andabout 45 percent of the process heat.For cost-effective production of biogas, it is important to ensure continuouspurchase of the amount produced. To this end, IVF HARTMANN <strong>AG</strong> hasbegun to work with the waste water treatment plant ARA Röti in Neuhausenat the Rheinfall. With its constantly high energy demand, IVF is anideal purchaser of quantities of biogas from the treatment plant. It usesthe biogas in its new thermal power station to generate electricity andheat. Since 2001, the cycle has been completed in the form of a biogasand heating network: using a district heating pipe, part of the heat energyproduced can now be returned from the power plant to the ARA, whichuses it for room and sludge heating. IVF further increased its energy efficiencyby establishing a new steam boiler plant with significantlyincreased efficiency that can also be operated with biogas. The result isthat most of the sterile products from IVF HARTMANN <strong>AG</strong> are now sterilizedwith environmentally friendly steam generated using biogas.Left Using ThermoFly, a flying imaging camera, we have scanned the thermalinsulation of building facades and roofs to take appropriate improvementmeasures.Right In 1999, at the Grimmenstein location a boiler was converted to naturalgas. The change from heating oil to natural gas led to significantly loweremissions.