The mark of distinction garners even more honour
when the recognition is also proclaimed by the highest agency
- the Baden-Wurttemberg Ministry for Environment and Traffic
- and the
Burkert Werke GmbH & Co. is the only firm
in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Heilbronn-Franconia
district.
"Environmental protection starts in the head", emphasises
Managing Director Gerhard Hettinger. And so it is not astonishing
that Burkert stresses a comprehensive environmental concept.
Managing Director Gerhard Hettinger and Prof. Dr. Klaus-Werner
Frink, who is responsible for training and law, modestly state:
"It's a uniform process: we're not doing anything spectacular".
Yet what has long since become a matter of course at Burkert
is also worthy of recognition. "The company was the first
business operation in Germany with an integrated management
system that encompasses environmental and quality management
as well as the occupational safety sector", emphasised Under
Secretary Dr. Birn during the awards ceremony at the Stuttgart
Killesberg exhibition grounds. Environmental protection is
stipulated as an agreement on operational targets for the
employees. The company actually implements these objectives
in the local Agenda 21 and the Hohenlohe model so that environmental
protection does not become an empty clich?
The medium-sized family enterprise with headquarters in Ingelfingen
produces measuring, control and regulatory instruments as
well as valves.
The methods entailed in production innovation proceed in
the direction of increasing the recycling ability of products:
Scaling down valves, flushing with less energy consumption
and even a biodegradable flushing sheath. Burkert is also one
step ahead in matters of energy. Energy demand is subject
to strong fluctuations. Depending on the outside temperature,
the building must be strongly and differently heated in winter
and cooled in summer. A block thermal power station specially
customised for Burkert reacts to such fluctuations. Whereas
the waste heat from the motor cooling water and the waste
gas is fed into the heating system via heat exchanger in the
water, this method also provides cooling in summer. The waste
heat is then converted into cool temperatures by means of
an absorption refrigeration machine, and thus replaces the
cooling aggregate in the building's air-conditioning system.
Not just Eberhard Zott, Environmental Health Officer at Burkert,
but also Claudia Ziertz from the Kunzelsau district administration's
special service for environmental protection and construction
are convinced of the fact that the company is on the right
course in terms of environmental policy. They also proudly
followed the awards ceremony in Stuttgart with great interest,
together with Ingelfingen's mayor Wolfgang J. Schneider.
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