Climate

Pfleiderer is committed to the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. This goal guides our measures to reduce climate-relevant emissions in all three scopes. By 2050, we want to reduce gradually our net carbon footprint to zero.

Through investments and additional measures at our locations in 2020 and 2021, we have already been able to reduce emissions in Scope 1 and especially in Scope 2 very significantly and achieve values at the 2025 target level. For example, we generated 150,846 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in Scope 1 and 2 in 2022 compared to 171,969 tonnes in 2021 and 220,164 tonnes in 2020.

We have thus reduced greenhouse gas emissions in Scope 1 and 2 by 31% from 2020 to 2022.

From the beginning of 2023, we will consume the renewable electricity from our production plants within the Pfleiderer Group. We expect that in 2023 we will thus generate more than 90% of our energy from our own combined heat and power generation – for heat and electricity.

The chemical products we buy for our wood-based material production include adhesives, titanium dioxide, urea, paraffin, flame retardants, resins, paints and other melting products. Their production is energy- intensive. That is why we work with our chemical suppliers to reduce emissions from chemical production, especially through the use of renewable energy sources. 

The chemical products we buy in for our wood-based material production include adhesives, titanium dioxide, urea, paraffin, flame-retardants, resins, paints and other melting products. Their production is energy-intensive. That is why, on the one hand, we work with our chemical suppliers to reduce emissions from chemical production, especially through the use of renewable energy sources.

In addition, we are looking for alternatives to fossil-based chemicals. For example, we are increasingly replacing urea-formaldehyde resin glues (UF glues) – the most widely used binder in the global wood industry – with organic, biogenic glue in our particleboards. This allows us to improve the products' carbon footprint while maintaining quality and meeting all applicable quality and safety standards.

We consider climate-related emissions along the entire value chain. We want to progressively reduce our product-related climate change emissions for all up-stream products. We have therefore set ourselves the goal of working closely with our suppliers to create a framework for reducing Scope 3 emissions by 2023.

To achieve our target, we first implement measures to reduce our energy consumption and thus our use of fossil fules. To reduce our energy consumption, empty runs are kept to a minimum through a well thought out route planning.

In logistics, we use our own trucks from our company JURA-Spedition, which largely fulfilled the Euro emissions standards 6d and 6e in 2022 due to regular replacements. Our goal is to fully comply with these standards from mid-2023, and we are already preparing for higher standards such as Euro 7 as well as alternative drive types. E-mobility plays a decisive role for our employees; we therefore will start offering electric fleet cars and job bikes starting 2023.

To ensure that all these measures work together in the best possible way, we have set ourselves the goal for 2023 of bundling all climate-friendly mobility measures, taking them into account together, and collecting and reporting meaningful and measurable indicators.