Outokumpu sets environmental targets both group-wide and at site level. Group-wide targets are common targets that affects to most of the sites. At production sites targets are more specific.
The Group’s key environmental targets are to prevent soil contamination, to reduce emissions into water and air, to improve energy efficiency and to optimize the use of water. The enhanced use of recycled steel as raw material and the reduction of process waste are also important targets.
Here are individual targets for production sites in 2008.
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Air Protection
• Tornio
Increase usage of dust reduction units to
more than 98% per month.
• Newcastle
Add a new scrubber to one of the
production lines.
• Avesta
To decrease the carbon dioxide emissions by 2 percent to 375 kg/ton.
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Use of Materials
• Kemi mine
Reuse 200 000 tons of lumpy rock from the
concentrating plant to backfill stopes in the
underground mine.
• Sheffield, melting shop
Reduce consumption of hydraulic oil by
10% (with 2007 as the reference year)
through a program of leakage reduction
measures.
Maintain the on-site recycling for primary
dusts to match dust output from the
melting shop.
• Tornio
Produce more than 120 000 tons of steel
slag products.
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Energy Efficiency
• Avesta
Reduce electricity consumption by 3%
from 980 to 950 kWh per ton.
Reduce consumption of liquid petroleum
gas (LPG) by 3% from 66 to 64 kg per ton.
• Sheffield, melting shop
Reduce specific energy consumption by 2%.
• Nyby, tube mill
Reduce total energy consumption by 2%.
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Waste Management
• Tornio
Reduce quantity of landfill waste by
10% per final product ton.
• Sheffield melting shop
Increase the quantity of waste being
recycled so that the amount of waste sent
to landfill is reduced by 10%.
• Sheffield rod mill
Reduce the quantity of general waste being
sent to landfill by 10% by identifying
additional opportunities to reduce, reuse or
recycle material that is currently being
disposed of in this way.
• Örnsköldsvik tube mill
Reduce deposited material by 10%.
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Water Protection
• Avesta
Reduce nitrate discharges to water by 10%
and achieve 1kg/ton as a monthly average.
• Sheffield melting shop
Reduce specific water consumption by 5%
with 2007 as the reference year.
• Degerfors
Increase water filter capacity in the hot
rolling mill to minimize the risk of
accidental discharges.
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Soil protection
• Sheffield melting shop
Improve ground protection by installing
storage tanks and bunds for grinder cellar
water.
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Management systems
• Group
The process of integrating management
systems that comply with the EN-14001,
EN-9001 and BS-18001 standards and
relevant energy management systems into a
single environment, health and safety
quality system has been initiated. The target
is for at least one business unit to be ready
for implementation by the end of 2008.
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Group wide environmental targets for corporate responsibility theme year 2008
• To reduce waste: landfill from plant
operations by 10 percent per ton
processed, and non-classified (e.g.
plastic cups and other non-recyclable
material) from offices by 5 percent
• To reduce energy consumption: at plants
by 2 percent per ton processed, and in
offices by 5 percent (e.g. using energy
saving lamps, turning off lights and
computers when not in use, not leaving
in stand-by position)
• To contribute to reducing global carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions
- New company cars to be low emission
cars (below 200g CO2 /km);
company car policy to be revised
- Outokumpu promotes tele/videoconferences
vs. flying; travel policy to
be revised
- Outokumpu invests 5 million euros in
an environmental target to be identified through a group wide competition
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