The terms environmental protection and sustainability are on everyone's lips. Environmental protection and sustainability have always played a significant role in NETZSCH’s activities, production and development of innovative products.

NETZSCH produces durable capital goods and supports its sustainable approach thanks to a global spare parts distribution and service. As a customer, you benefit from the network of a global player at your location. With production sites and branches on all five continents, NETZSCH is the ideal partner. But even away from production, environmental protection and sustainability are writ significant - the goals for the coming years are evident.

Green electricity at NETZSCH 

"By switching to green electricity, we save 3619 tonnes of CO2 per year. This is another milestone towards carbon neutrality at NETZSCH,” stated Johann Vetter, Head of Integrated Quality Management. Green electricity is electricity generated from renewable energy sources. These include solar radiation, wind and water power, biomass, geothermal energy or even sewage gas. The use of green electricity significantly reduces the consumption of fossil resources and thus protects the climate.

Promoting biodiversity 

NETZSCH converted 8500 square metres of industrial fallow land into ecologically valuable flower meadows. These flowering meadows serve insects, birds, and small animals as food sources, habitats, and refuges. They also promote biodiversity and act as surface and groundwater protection. This significantly increases the quality of life and the recreational value of the landscape.

EcoVadis, Bavarian Environmental and Climate Pact

NETZSCH participated in the Bavarian Environmental and Climate Pact with qualified voluntary ecological services. The focus is on the foresighted avoidance of future environmental pollution and not repairing it. The overriding goal of the pact is to sustainably improve the ecological, economic and social conditions of current and future generations in Bavaria. NETZSCH was also awarded the EcoVadis Silver Medal for its financial actions. The EcoVadis evaluation focuses on sustainability, environmental protection, ethics and human rights.

Accorded DIN ISO 14001: 2018 certificate

Continuous improvement of environmental performance - ISO 14001 is the internationally recognised and most widely used standard for environmental management. It includes guidelines to continuously improve environmental performance and provides companies with a framework for designing and organising environmentally relevant tasks. Due to the ongoing commitment to improving environmental performance, environmental management has been certified according to the ISO 14001 standard.

Founding Member “Blue Competence”

The colour green stands for environmental protection. Blue is the colour of sustainability, which takes a holistic view of economic efficiency, the environment and society. These three aspects are also the focus of the "Blue Competence" initiative sponsored by the German Engineering Federation (VDMA). (VDMA) is also dedicated to these three aspects. The goal is to make sustainable solutions known to the industry that lead to new energy concepts, efficient use of scarce resources, or improved quality of life. NETZSCH is one of the founding members.

Goals for sustainability

The intention of medium and long-term strategic environmental and energy planning is green growth. This means economic growth combined with clearly recognisable ecological protection. "We want to achieve complete climate neutrality at NETZCH by 2045," said Johann Vetter, Head of Integrated Quality Management. To achieve the ambitious goals, 3.5% to 4.2% of energy will be saved annually compared to the base year of 2019.

It is not only you who will benefit from all these sustainable measures to protect the environment when using NETZCH’s products in a wide range of app applications but also future generations in particular.