Our Committment to Sustainability
Sustainability and the protection of the environment are an integral part of our forward-looking company's corporate objectives. At Meinberg, all operational, design, and production processes prioritize these objectives so as to strike a healthy balance between maintaining the high quality standards of our product line and a conservative approach to the use of increasingly scarce natural resources.
It's time to care!
When it Comes to the Environment, There's no Time Like the Present
Offsetting carbon emissions often calls for out-of-the-box thinking. For our upcoming events we've actively sought out opportunities for giveaways that would benefit the environment, and our decision fell upon sponsoring a tree planting for each registered Meinberg booth visitor. Each visitor has a tree planted on their behalf, and will receive a Meinberg Tree Certificate that also lists the coordinates where the tree can be visited. In PLANT-MY-TREE®, we found a dependable partner for this undertaking to support reforestation in Germany.
About PLANT-MY-TREE®
Sören Brüntgens has been planting trees since 2000 to offset carbon emissions and slow the process of climate change. His friends were supportive of his campaign, contributing funds to support it, and thus the PLANT-MY-TREE® organization and foundation was born. PLANT-MY-TREE® aims to provide everyone with the opportunity to invest in protecting the environment, whether as private individuals or as a company. Trees can be planted in one of a variety of plots located throughout Germany.
If you would like to contribute to these reforestation efforts, we recommend visiting our partner's Tree Donation Shop.
Supporting Natural Pollination
We have set aside a large bee pasture on the grounds of our Bad Pyrmont headquarters to preserve and support biodiversity in our rural region. This bee pasture has been nurtured and left to grow wild, allowing 34 different varieties of wildflowers to flourish. Our headquarters are also home to a bustling insect hotel in our east-facing garden, not to mention a variety of well-tended flower beds and lawns.
Solar Energy
We are constantly striving to minimize our electricity consumption. One of the ways in which we have worked towards achieving this goal is with the 1000m² of solar panels installed on our production building. Solar power offers a substantially reduced carbon footprint, faciliates clean air, and helps minimize the pollution generated by the use of increasingly scarce, non-renewable resources such as oil, coal, and gas. With these solar panels, in addition to the eyecatching Smartflower installation in our east-facing garden, Meinberg strives to meet its production electricity demands with solar generation—a genuine boost for the environmental compatibility of our production activities.
Watch our YouTube video to see how the Smartflower unfolds and automatically follows the sun throughout the day.
e-mobility
Electric mobility is gaining importance in today's society. We actively support e-mobility, for example with the installation of four electric vehicle charging stations in the car park of our Bad Pyrmont headquarters, to enable our workforce to charge their vehicles for free while they work.
Green Exhibiting
Our sustainability efforts also extend to our presence at trade exhibitions. Trade shows and exhibitions suffer from a certain notoriety for being rather wasteful affairs, and the conventional approach of disposing of vast quantities of materials after each event is completely at odds with our desire to have every aspect of our business anchored in a sustainable mindset. So, as part of our Green Exhibiting strategy, we have developed modular exhibition booth walls that are designed to be reused and reassembled. These exhibition booth components provide extra flexibility, are easier to transport, and are an eco-friendly, low-carbon option.
And we strive to take the reusability of our exhibition stands to the limit—with our booth concept recently being updated to not only feature modular, reusable walls, but also modular flooring.