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Our Sustainability Strategy
Successful in metal cutting - successful in sustainability. Walter is ready to take on this challenge and be an active and leading player for sustainability in the metalworking industry!
Our ’Create the Change’ campaign will feature several success stories from around the Walter world. Wherever you find our contribution to sustainability, you will see our newly developed ‘Create the Change’ stamp! Learn more about Create the Change |
Good news for machining companies: As they have a high content of recycled tungsten carbide, the CO₂ emissions of Walter's indexable inserts are 36 percent lower than those of indexable inserts made from virgin materials. In this way, Walter's indexable inserts play an important part in reducing the CO₂ emissions of the company itself and of its users. The inserts are 58 percent tungsten carbide, which is recovered from recyclable materials...
Walter has been honored with the EcoVadis Gold Medal for Sustainability Excellence for the third consecutive year. This puts Walter in the top 5% of all companies evaluated by EcoVadis worldwide. It shows how good we are at managing sustainability and that we're committed to being open and honest throughout the supply chain.
Walter is at the forefront of ethical business practices, and we are committed to sustainability, human rights and transparency throughout our value chain. That's why we've made Responsible Business one of the four focus areas of our sustainability strategy, with the goal to "always do the right thing", and one of our four Sustainability Committee teams. Let's take a closer look at what we mean.
As part of our "Create the Change" sustainability strategy, our goal is to achieve a 90% circular economy for products, raw materials, and waste by 2030. Recycling and reconditioning play a critical role in achieving this. That's why we're excited to tell you about our recycling program and our new online customer portal - an easy-to-use tool to get an instant quote and order recycling containers.
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As a global manufacturer of metalworking cutting tools, employing 3,800 people, Walter requires a large amount of energy to produce, manage and distribute products to its customers. Therefore, it is vitally important for us to optimize where we source energy from and how much we use every day of the year.
Did you know that a hole just one millimeter in size in a compressed-air line with a 6-bar operating pressure causes additional costs of around €1,100 per year? With two millimeters it is around €10,500 and with three millimeters it is almost €30,000. The reason for this is the amount of energy required to either produce or supply the compressed air.* What does this have to do with our topic? A lot...
