Environment & Climate Protection

Environmental and climate protection has always been a high priority at MC-Bauchemie. Our goal is to continuously improve the quality of our production and products as well as the environmental performance, occupational safety and health protection on the one hand and the profitability of our group of companies on the other. Quality and environmental management systems are firmly integrated in our company organisation.

We have been one of the first chemical companies in Germany to be audited and certified according to both the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 quality management standards. In this context, we have voluntarily committed ourselves for almost 30 years to participate in an EMAS eco-audit by an EMAS environmental verifier every year and to publish the results, including our environmental targets, in an environmental statement. Thanks to our internal quality and environmental management and regular internal audits, we are able to continuously monitor our environmental protection measures and adjust them if necessary. By returning plastics, paper, cardboard, wood and kraft paper bags to the recycling process, we also make an important contribution to environmental and climate protection.

Sustainability Goals

Electricity consumption In 2021, the specific electricity consumption was 50.57 kWh per tonne of finished product. This value is to be be reduced by 8 % by the end of 2023.

Innovative Technologies At the product level, we will save up to 7,000 tonnes of CO2 per year at the upstream value chain stage by the end of 2023 through the use of innovative technologies.

CO2 avoidance Avoidance of CO2 emissions in the production process of PCE's as well as through the final conversion of the operations in Bottrop from oil to gas. Due to the war in Ukraine and the associated supply problems in the gas sector, some areas at the site switched back to heating oil. Consequently, the pursuit of the aforementioned third environmental goal has to be temporarily suspended.

Waste reduction Reduce the specific amount of total waste (26,6 kg in 2021) and the specific amount of hazardous waste (4,7 kg in 2021) per tonne of finished product by 5% by the end of 2023.

Certified according to ISO 14001

Every year, MC-Bauchemie undergoes an audit according to ISO 14001, the internationally recognised environmental management standard. After a thorough audit, we have been certified again in 2021. The international environmental management standard sets out globally recognised requirements for an environmental management system and is part of a family of standards that includes numerous other codes covering various areas of environmental management. ISO 14001 focuses on a continuous improvement process as a means of achieving the defined environmental performance objectives of an organisation. MC-Bauchemie has been one of the first chemical companies in Germany to be audited and certified according to both the quality management standard ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.

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Environmental and climate protection through recycling

By returning plastics, paper, cardboard, wood and kraft paper bags to the recycling process in 2021, MC-Bauchemie in Germany was able to save a calculated 2,241 metric tons of resources, that is to say primary raw materials taken from nature to produce the above-mentioned materials, and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 310 metric tons. In this way, MC is also making an important contribution to environmental and climate protection.