Section 2 i) Initial Research Work - Gewerbliche Schule Ravensburg

Other questions asked:Do you monitor travelling expenses?•answer: Transportation of the product is billed to the customers. But most parts aremade in-house but parts bought in are from local companies to keep costs to aminimum.How many countries do you get your materials or parts from?•answer: Most parts are sourced locally to keep the costs down but some rawmaterials have to come from countries that got a big steel industry such as Chile,China or Argentina.Have you noticed a raise in energy costs in the last 5 years?•answer: Energy costs are kept to a minimum by being as self sufficient by producingas possible with a coal power plant or nuclear power plants a small amount is takenfrom renewable resources.Have you looked into more reusable energy rather than raw material?•answer: “No as a company we haven’t because the plant it self sufficient and theuse of a company made generator that supplies the factory grid is enough”.Conclusion:As a group it was concluded that MTU is a sustainable company due to themeasures they go to.Firstly they apply control measures such as swarf separation so they can re forge thematerial in house, which cuts costs and saves on labour time and Co2 emissions.Secondly they recycle all of their paper waste and most of their general waste.21