Environmental management

Jungheinrich views environmental protection as an important part of its business activity. As a company with global operations, Jungheinrich strives to fully tap the potential to protect the environment throughout the Group with a lasting effect and to help conserve natural resources. In 2008, Jungheinrich achieved further reductions in energy consumption, CO₂ emissions and solvent discharge by taking a number of resolute measures in the field of environmental management.

Gas consumption was markedly reduced through the use of special heat insulation in existing buildings on factory premises. A new compressor room was designed at the plant in Moosburg (Bavaria) to enable the compressor‘s waste heat to be used to heat the factory halls. The progressive switch to hydro paints gives rise to the expectation of sustainable reductions in solvent discharge in this area.

The rollout of the service engineer dispatch system in Germany and other European countries was continued in 2008. This has enabled optimized route planning, leading to both time and fuel savings when deploying service engineers, the latter lowering CO₂ emissions considerably. Results achieved by this measure, which will be introduced to additional country operations in 2009, demonstrate how effectively the ecology and economy can be reconciled over the long term.