Environment & Energy
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
(Quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from the book “The Little Prince”)
Energy efficiency and environmental protection are a major part of our corporate culture at Amphenol-Air LB Gmbh. With careful evaluation of our products and the steps involved in their production, we seek to prevent and reduce any negative environmental impact. We are thus committed to acting in accordance with the following principles:
- We pledge to comply with all applicable legal requirements and other requirements Amphenol has agreed to regarding energy use, energy consumption, and energy efficiency.
- We pledge to use natural resources responsibly and to preserve the environment to the best of our ability.
- With the creation of an environmental and energy management system, we have established the necessary conditions to meet these requirements.
- Our employees are given regular compliance training concerning environmental protection and energy efficiency measures.
- Our employees are given regular compliance training concerning environmental protection and energy efficiency measures.
- Our products are designed to be recyclable and to comply with the latest environmental regulations.
- We attach great importance to saving energy and electricity, and we continuously strive to reduce consumption as well as improve energy-related performance. Supporting the acquisition of energy-efficient products and services is particularly effective in this pursuit. To do this, we focus our efforts on the technical options available to us, making use of these for maintenance, renovation, and modernization of our infrastructure wherever economic considerations allow.
- We want to keep the amount of waste we generate as low as possible, and are therefore increasing our use of recycled products.
- We are working together with our suppliers to increase their environmental and energy awareness as well.
- We maintain an effective system which reviews these guidelines at regular intervals.
- We are committed to the continuous improvement of our environmental and energy management system. Our management ensures that the information and resources necessary to achieve our environmental and energy goals are available.
The management appoints the company’s quality management representative as environmental management representative (EMR) and energy management representative (EMB), who is responsible for setting up, documenting and managing the environmental management system according to DIN EN ISO 14001 and the energy management system according to ISO 50001.
Furthermore, Amphenol-Air LB has a certified quality management system according to DIN EN ISO 9001 and DIN EN 9100.
Both the environmental management and energy management systems are regularly (at least once a year) reviewed and documented by the environmental management or energy management officer in the form of internal audits.
Audit results are presented to the management to ensure that environmental and energy management is reviewed regularly and if necessary, revised and adjusted.
Both our environmental management and energy management systems are documented in the current management guidelines and relevant procedure instructions.
The management evaluates the environmental and energy management systems at least once a year by carrying out reviews.
Company environmental and energy policies are regularly disclosed to all Amphenol-Air LB employees and published on the respective departmental information boards. In addition, the documentation is made available to all employees on the intranet for transparency purposes, and to all other interested parties in paper form upon request.