The corona pandemic has also changed the way Graphite Materials works: A lot of work is done in the home office – a trip to the office is often no longer necessary. Of course, this also has a positive impact on our carbon footprint: through mobile working, we have already saved twice as much CO2 this year as our company cars emit in the same period. We are very happy about this balance, because we always want to set new impulses in terms of climate protection.

Our Smart Engineering also has a sustainability aspect – with our corporate environmental management measures, we aim to conserve resources and save energy. With our voluntary strategies, we are therefore part of the Bavarian Environmental and Climate Pact.

This is an agreement between the Bavarian state government and the Bavarian business community, which is based on personal responsibility, voluntariness and cooperation. The aim is to use new methods and the experience of the participating companies to find new strategies that improve the social as well as the economic and ecological foundations of present and future generations in Bavaria.

Our intelligent environmental management already includes various approaches: For example, we use recyclable packaging and purchase eco-gas” to heat our production. Through the extended digitisation of documents, which also goes hand in hand with mobile working, we save large amounts of paper – about 20 percent compared to our previous consumption. In our measures, we want to constantly develop further and at the same time demonstrate that it is possible to save resources as a manufacturing industrial company.

With its platform, the Bavarian Environmental and Climate Pact wants to promote far more measures in the area of environmental protection than is currently possible through legislation. In this way, new solutions for dealing with sustainability and environmental protection are continuously being developed. Currently, 664 companies and businesses in Bavaria are involved. We are pleased that we are also part of this pact and can thus contribute to environmental and climate protection.