An environment, energy, health and safety program with 30 individual targets was established for the fiscal year 2022/23.
In the program, 30 individual targets have been defined for the following areas
Of the 30 environment, energy, health, and safety targets for the FY 2022/23, 25 were achieved on time, which corresponds to an implementation rate of 83%.
Up to now, the waste heat generated during the production of seamless steel pipes has only been partially utilized, e.g. for space heating or hot water preparation. Until now, there has been no technically meaningful and economically justifiable system of recovering heat from the exhaust air of the rotary furnace. The construction of a municipal district heating network makes it possible to use the waste heat from the exhaust chimney of the rotary furnace. The heat is recovered from a newly constructed chimney by means of an exhaust gas/hot water heat exchanger. The heat is fed into the district heating plant via a newly constructed pipe system.
In two construction phases, a PV system is being installed on several factory building roofs at the site by the contracting party Verbund.
The total output of the system is approx. 8 MWp and the specific yield is 980 kWh/kWp*a. The installed area is 37,624 m2, with almost 20,000 modules. The PV system is designed as a surplus feeder into the kV grid.
In 2022, voestalpine Tubulars underwent a sustainability assessment by EcoVadis and achieved platinum status with a score of 75 out of a maximum of 100 points. This score represents the 98th percentile. With this rating, voestalpine Tubulars belongs to the top 1% of the 100,000 companies rated by EcoVadis.
The EcoVadis sustainability rating considers the following areas:
» Environment
» Ethics
» Employment and Human Rights
» Sustainable Procurement
Especially in the area of the environment, an above-average rating of 90 out of 100 points was achieved. In the areas of employment and human rights and ethics, 70 out of 100 points were achieved, with employment and human rights receiving a higher weighting in the overall score.
