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CO2-Compensation
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PROLED
Our customers save energy with PROLED products. The LED technology always makes sure that our
resources are used particularly carefully when it comes to light.
We would like to make our contribution to safeguarding the environment
– for us and for future generations. We have understood that we cannot
afford to continue with the way things are and the first step is the most
important – let us act for change together. Join in too!
The MBN-PROLED team naturally also uses
energy-efficient lighting wherever possible.
Yet we do much more to reduce our eco-
logical footprint and above all to keep the
emission of CO2 as low as possible.
You may already have noticed some of
these: Our office building is equipped with
a photovoltaic system. We also have a
groundwater heat pump in operation. And
since 2022, both our employees and our
customers can charge their e-cars at the
charging stations installed on site.
We also began determining our CO2 emis-
sions at an early stage in order to balance
them by supporting different projects. In this
way, on the one hand we can identify where
we can lower our demand for primary
energy and therefore also reduce our CO2
emissions directly.
And this is how we do it: In a professional
procedure, we calculate the CO2 emissions
of all kinds of different partial aspects of
our daily work. This involves, for example,
business trips, employee travel to and from
work, electricity, gas and water consumpti-
on, as well as the transport of our products
from the warehouse in Friedberg to the
customer. The result of this calculation is an
image of our ecological footprint.
With the help of our energy supplier Ilzhöfer
and in cooperation with First Climate AG,
we then support sustainable projects as
compensation. One example is a hydropow-
er plant in India or the particularly energy-
efficient cooking stoves for households in
Uganda. The cooking stoves are produced
and distributed in the country. They are sig-
nificantly more effective than open fireplaces
and the women and children have to spend
less time searching for wood. All projects
have one thing in common, they support the
UN sustainable development goals on a
voluntary basis.
We have already completed the CO2
compensation for 2020. We are currently
working on balancing 2021 and 2022.
And MBN-PROLED does even more: In re-
cent years we have largely reduced plastic
as a packaging material or have changed
over to recycled material. And thanks to
a new ERP system, we have significantly
reduced our consumption of paper, not only
in-house but also in correspondence with
our customers.
