On the road to climate neutrality, Jokey seeks to work with experts
The Jokey Group remains committed to becoming a climate-neutral company by 2030. In order to continue to reduce its carbon footprint along the way, the company is actively pursuing a consistent focus on maximum energy and resource efficiency throughout the company. Jokey also seeks advice from knowledgeable experts in its search for suitable measures. For example, ClimatePartner is currently helping the company to completely record the relevant CO2 emissions of Jokey’s plants across the group. The subsequent joint analysis of the annual balance sheet enables the precise implementation and control of suitable measures for CO2 reduction.
“We are pleased to have another experienced expert at our side on the road to climate neutrality,” says Tobias Krumm, energy management representative at Jokey. “With this collaboration, we are focusing on science-based reduction targets and are on the home stretch of our sustainability strategy as defined in the Jokey Eco Concept. This will also help us to speed up our efforts to achieve our vision of making the Jokey Group truly climate neutral by 2030.” Jokey also sees the targeted CO2 reduction measures as a contribution to the climate protection goal of the Paris Agreement, which, among other things, has set a binding target for the global community to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.
Jokey continuously invests in energy-efficient plant technologies
The expanded Jokey Eco Concept 2.0 provides the framework for ever-closer cooperation with various stakeholders and the common goal of conserving resources, protecting the climate and building a circular economy. Since 2007, Jokey has been relying on relevant research results on the topic of increasing energy efficiency in order to gradually implement specific measures. These include, among other things, investments in energy-efficient machines such as all-electric injection moulding machines, compressed air or refrigeration technology systems. In 2011, the first photovoltaic system was launched in Gummersbach. Two years later, an ISO 50001-certified energy management system was implemented in all German plants and at the company’s sites in France, Spain, the Czech Republic and Poland.
Increasing the use of PCR makes a further contribution to reducing the CO2 footprint
By 2025, Jokey also intends to further increase the proportion of post-consumer recyclates (PCR) used in the manufacture of its sustainable packaging for customers in the food sector. This will also help to reduce CO2 emissions during production.
Climate-neutral packaging as a goal – Jokey offers customers a transitional CO2 offset
Jokey is working towards climate-neutral packaging production. Until this is fully implemented, customers can voluntarily offset CO2 with certificates in sustainable climate projects. These are carried out in accordance with the CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) with the Gold Standard seal of quality – the strictest existing standard for climate protection projects. “This form of offsetting the emissions generated during production is intended as a transitional phase,” emphasises Tobias Krumm. “However, we believe that every single step towards reducing our ecological footprint counts on the road to our long-term goal of climate neutrality.” Jokey seeks the advice of renowned NGOs when selecting suitable climate protection projects.
