Reducing our carbon footprint

We are at the beginning of our journey to incorporate electric cars into our car fleet. A start has been made on this in Sweden, where management cars have been replaced by hybrid or electric cars. At the same time, Hilti provides charging stations at its office locations. The Swedish market organization is strongly committed to moving over its whole car fleet to green modes of transport by 2030.

Wherever possible, Hilti looks into alternative energy provision with the best environmental footprint. This saw us install a combined heat and power plant at our Nersingen /Germany site, where we use both the electricity and heat generated from the gas-powered unit, meaning that we have a lower primary energy demand and save about 125 tons of CO2 annually.

In addition to the use of production and infrastructure excess heat, the Kaufering site obtains its heat from the community of Kaufering: It is a power plant that generates the majority of its energy from wood chips. Hilti currently receives about 30% of the total heat generated. Compared to the usage of gas we save about 90% of the CO2 emissions for heating at this location.

In all our locations, we are sourcing new machinery with the aim of installing much more energy-efficient equipment than the previous machinery. One example of this is a milling machine in our Kecskemét / Hungary plant, where we invested about 15% more in a machine that uses 7% less energy than a comparable alternative.