Environmental compliance: progress on all fronts

"Environmental concerns are increasingly seen as a lever of industrial performance. Environmental compliance is a corporate concern in its own right, a natural part of the cost control policy pursued by companies."
Jérome Jaffré, Cecop, Director of European industry survey 2005

Reducing energy costs

Energy costs are a key factor in industrial plant management. As energy prices are driven up, they force industrial executives to re-think operations. New sources of energy savings have to be identified, installation efficiency must be improved, the mix of primary energy consumption adjusted.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme, implemented as a result of the Kyoto Protocol, presents industry with an economic challenge. The objective is to control and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while getting the best value from emission permit trading

Reducing water consumptions

Water is now a valuable resource. Existing sources of supply must now be used in a sustainable way and protected for the long-term. Water is also an essential input into many industrial processes and is the subject of increasingly sophisticated treatment for industrial applications. Increasing procurement costs for industrial water and regulatory pressures towards the protection of our water environment favor the recycling of purified industrial wastewater.

Reducing the impacts of treated wastewater discharges

Industrial firms face increasingly stringent discharge standards, whether into surface waters or into public sewerage systems. Minimizing wastewater volumes and pollution loads is therefore a growing concern.

Identifying dependable, economic and environmentally friendly modes of transportation

The opening up of rail freight to competition in Europe is today's reality. Now there are new prospects for industry in the transportation field.

Recycling waste

Producing less waste to keep down treatment costs, is one aspect of a wider strategy that seeks to identify every opportunity for waste recycling. Industry is faced with the challenge of waste management. Waste, currently known as a heterogeneous by-product of low value, can be transformed into a fuel or even a raw material.

Eliminating hazardous waste

Finding a solution for hazardous waste elimination by means which are reliable, cost-efficient and sustainable, is a must for all affected industrial sites.