Getting Greener

For us, sustainability means conserving resources in materials and energy as well as developing products and solutions for our partners that contribute to their sustainability goals. This approach is two dimensional: our footprint and our handprint.

Our footprint is the quantity of resources used to generate our products and services – our impact on the environment. This should be as small as possible. Our handprint is the development of products and services that allow our customers be more efficient and sustainably or have their end products use fewer resources. This impact should be as big as possible. 

The sustainability of products and processes has been part of Freudenberg’s corporate responsibility for many years. In 2016, the Group developed a Group-wide sustainability strategy. In addition, sustainability was made an integral part of the strategy process. 
Freudenberg created the “Sustainability Drives Climate Action” project in respect to the challenges and opportunities of climate change. Through this project, the first steps of the Freudenberg Group are to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent by 2025. Secondly, the opportunities and costs of climate neutrality for Freudenberg are to be identified in 2021. In this context, Freudenberg has adopted a four-stage strategy:

Stage 1: Reduce energy consumption
Stage 2: Cover the remaining energy demand using electric power to the greatest extent possible. 
Stage 3: Improve the Freudenberg Group’s energy balance by purchasing green electric power. 
Stage 4: Freudenberg is committed to offsetting CO2 emissions through ongoing efforts.