Velux has set the goal of reducing the Group’s 2007 global CO2 loads by 20% by 2012 and 50% by 2020. To achieve this goal, the company is making investments of 53,6 million Euros over the next few years in a series of energy-improving initiatives.

With this goal, Velux is now intensifying its efforts in climate protection by making considerable investments and setting ambitious goals. Its strategy is two-fold: reduction the company’s own environmental impact and environmentally beneficial improvements in the use of the company’s products.

Velux is planning several initiatives for operational optimisation including heating by boiler units fuelled on wood chips from production, optimisation of wood-chips suction with compressed air, and optimisation of compressor technology.

Velux production accounts for about 95% of the Group’s total CO₂ emissions, and initiatives to cutting that figure are aimed primarily at reducing the energy consumed by production facilities.

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