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Sustainability
“Proudly Working for the Future” is our overarching sustainability message, our aspiration, and our self-conception. As a family business, we want to contribute to the sustainable development of our society and our environment through our entrepreneurial actions.
For more than 200 years, we have been running our company responsibly and a view to the future; because our natural resources need to be preserved for our future generations.
Our company logo symbolises our sustainability positioning. The windmill has tradition and stands as a driver of our sustainable development.
As a paper manufacturer, we are creating a more sustainable paper production for the future. Our business processes, like our technical processes, are dynamic and revolve around people our success factor. Here, we primarily refer to our own employees, but also consider the people in our supply chain who contribute to our business success on a daily basis. We are successful as a company when we continuously work on sustainable solutions in close partnership with our customers and suppliers.
The foundation is our long-term perspective as a family business, our values and culture, and our management system.
Our sustainability positioning encompasses economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability, which we have translated into concrete fields of action. We are already working
on being visionary in climate protection, sourcing our raw materials from responsible sources, working resource-efficiently to produce successful products viable for the future that are as resourceefficient
as possible.
Our Key Areas of Action:
Renewable raw materials from responsible sources
Successful products viable for the future
Visionary in climate protection
Resource-efficient
People our success factor
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UN Sustainable Development Goals
Our contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals: The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are primarily addressing
national states. As the Koehler Group, we are convinced that it is also our responsibility as a company to contribute to the realisation of
the SDGs. In 2020, we identified eleven of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) where we see opportunities today as well as in the future to contribute to sustainable
development.
We operate a comprehensive occupational health management system for our employees. We develop and produce products that are harmless to health as a contribution to preventive health protection.
We are a “BEST PLACE TO LEARN®” certified employer and offer comprehensive personnel development. We address sustainable development in energy and environmental training courses.
No one may be disadvantaged, harassed or excluded because of their race or ethnic origin, their gender, their religion or philosophy of life, a disability, their age or their sexual identity. We comply with the provisions of the General Equal Treatment Act.
We have effective wastewater treatment plants and ensure careful handling of water and critical substances. We have a high degree of recirculation, efficient hydropower plants, weirs with fish ladders and run a stream sponsorship programme.
We are visionary in climate protection. With Koehler Renewable Energy,
we generate renewable energy for our processes and external customers. With our energy management, we ensure a high level of efficiency and are a member of the “Modellfrabrik Papier”, which researches climate-neutral paper production in cooperation with scientific institutes.
In our supply chain value is created in rural regions. We develop new products and markets, form solid partnerships and thus decouple growth and emissions.
We make continuous investments in our production facilities. We are
working with various associations to secure Germany as an industrial
nation. We develop multimodal logistics concepts by road, rail, and water.
Our products are recyclable. With our NexFlex® products, we offer an effective, recyclable packaging material. With Blue4est® we offer preventive consumer protection. Our recycled paper from our Greiz mill is an example of upcycling. With our PCC plant at our Kehl mill, we
produce design pigments that are used as raw materials in our products. We enable the thermal utilisation of residual materials.
We are visionary in climate protection. With Koehler Renewable Energy,
we generate renewable energy for our processes and external customers. With our energy management, we ensure a high level of efficiency and are a member of the “Modellfrabrik Papier”, which researches climate-neutral paper production in cooperation with scientific institutes.
With the new NexFlex® products, we offer an alternative solution to reduce the use of plastic. With our effective wastewater treatment plants, we minimise our carbon footprint.
With FSC® and PEFC™ chain-of-custody certified supply chains, we support sustainable forestry and plantations We also support this goal with local activities.
Koehler Group Key Figures
Steam Supplied
2020
133,380
Tonnes of steam from renewable fuels supplied to industrial processes of our customers in the immediate vicinity of our power plants
2019
127,454
Tonnes
Renewable Electricity
Generated
2020
238,978
MWh of renewable electricity fed into the public grid
2019
226,176
MWh
Key Figures 2020:
| Input | | 2020 | | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
Raw materials | Pulp [t] | 348,338 | 359,402 |
| Roundwood [t] | 11,768 | 20,514 | |
| Wastepaper [t] | 32,895 | 42,436 | |
| Other input materials [t] | 264,322 | 224,474 | |
Energy | Electricity [MWh] | 319,533 | 300,616 |
| Fuels [MWh] | 1,838,765 | 1,830,907 | |
Water | Well water [m³] | 4,932,299 | 4,831,850 |
| Surface water [m³] | 483,074 | 632,538 |
| Output | | 2020 | | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
Production | Paper & board [t, sold] | 486,471 | 494,005 |
| Processed waste wood for material recycling [t] | 25,122 | 19,675 | |
Energy Generation | Electricity [MWh] | 238,986 | 226,492 |
| Process steam [t] | 597,362 | 588,207 | |
| Hot water [MWh] | 19,645 | 23,212 | |
Greenhouse Gas Emissions | CO2 Scope 1 [t] | 208,628 | 224,378 |
| CO2 Scope 2 [t] | 208,109 | 194,059 | |
Wastewater | Wastewater [m³] | 2,793,881 | 2,783,583 |
Waste | Waste [t, gross] | 107,891 | 103,118 |