Häfele Australia Pty Ltd is committed to being an environmentally responsible company which recognises and accepts its responsibility to minimise, wherever possible, its impacts on the environment and to comply with all relevant statutory environmental requirements.
Häfele aims to:
- Minimise, and where practicable, eliminate any adverse impacts on the environment arising from our business activities;
- Minimise air emission evident in our production process;
- Minimise the use of energy, resources consumed and waste produced while undertaking our business activities;
- Promoting reduction at the source, reuse and recycling of materials;
- Ensure legal disposal of all waste arising from our business activities;
- Implement and review, on an ongoing basis, our environmental policies,
- Communicate our environmental policies and objectives to staff, contractors, suppliers and customers to enhance awareness of our commitment to environmental management;
- Educate and train staff to enable them to fulfil our company’s environmental objectives;
- Ensure that our facilities, products and operations meet all federal, state and local government environmental regulations;
- Establish and measure our environmental performance against pre-set objectives and/or targets.
They achieve this by;
- continually monitoring the use of resources within our operations and production process;
- reviewing production processes to ensure that excessive consumption and waste of production raw materials are identified and processes implemented to minimise excessive waste;
- where possible utilise by-products or waste from production in other areas or business activities (for example: damaged particle board from the drawer line used as packaging materials for painted doors)
- ensure that production raw material wastage (such as aluminium, acrylic, cardboard) are recycled and not disposed of in landfill;
- where practicable, and efficient, use the most environmentally friendly form of consumables for packing (for example: maximise the use of cardboard rather than plastic);
- utilise recycling agencies for the disposal of paper, printer/copier cartridges etc.
Häfele ensures that any waste that can not be reused or recycling is disposed of in a way which minimises any impact on the environment and conforms to all relevant regulatory requirements.
