ContiTech initiates pilot project for ‘green operations’ globally

Hanover, Germany – ContiTech has defined three locations in Changzhou, China; Granby, Canada and Dannenberg, Germany, as pilot sites for its green operations.

Under the project, each plant in each region will operate under “very unique conditions” to make sure that a successful approach at one site is “not simply copied to another.”

“Each of our production facilities faces their own specific challenges in reaching green operations by 2040 at the latest,” said Claus-Peter Spille, SVP operations ContiTech 5 Jan.

With the pilot projects, he added, “we provide our locations a comprehensive guidance on how to implement systematic operational environmental management at their site.”

Through the projects, ContiTech expects to “find best practices tailored for each region that can then be rolled-out and adapted to the other plants.”

The success of each plant, "based on concrete measures and activities", will provide guidance to other plants within the company.

ContiTech also announced that it had recently installed a new photovoltaic system at its rubber hose and belts manufacturing plant in Timisoara, Romania, as part of its sustainability programme.

The solar power system is expected to produce 930 MWh of “emission-free electricity” annually.

In addition to Timisoara, ContiTech said its locations in Subotica, Serbia; Szeged, Hungary, Wagrowiec, Poland; Weissbach, Germany; Changzhou, China; Kalyani, India and Chihuahua, Mexico, are installing their respective solar energy systems over the coming months.

ContiTech expects with these installations to generate 5,99MWh of power pear year, equivalent to the electricity consumption of 2,950 households in Germany.