What our satisfied project participants say about ECOPROFIT®
Dr. Vesna Smaka-Kincl,
Director Environmental Protection Agency, Maribor, Slovenia
"The ECOPROFIT® project is a case of good practice exemplifying how local communities can establish links with industrial undertakings in their
area and provides them with information about state and local legislation and their vision of municipal infrastructure development that the
undertakings will gradually have to adapt to. Candidate countries are a special case, as most of them have not yet upgraded their municipal
infrastructure charged with wastewater, drinking water and solid waste management to the level required by new national legislation.
As a consequence, industrial undertakings face extreme double pressure, financial as well as professional. They have to adapt to new internal
conditions and at the same time to the requirements of a developing municipal infrastructure. Thematic workshops established close connections
among the local community, ECOPROFIT® experts, Chamber of Economy and participating undertakings. The workshops also offered high quality
solutions based on the exchange of good practice cases among individual undertakings.The greatest benefit of the project is the fact that
the resources and knowledge invested in the project will contribute to positive economic results of individual undertakings."
Dr. Reinhard Wieczorek,
Referee for Employment and Economic Affairs of the City of Munich, Germany
"Since we started ECOPROFIT® in Munich 70 companies have successfully participated in the project over four years.
They have established comprehensive environment programmes, which are consistenlty implemented and enhanced.
If you look at the measures that were developed from the 53 companies of the first three years up to 2001, you can see an
impressive balance: ECOPROFIT® has enabled us to save 3300 tons of CO² emissions, 16.1 million kilowatt hours of energy, 97 million
litres of water, 1000 tons of residual waste and 1.85 million Euros. As a result we will continue with all modules of ECOPROFIT® in Munich."
Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann,
Lord Mayor of the City of Hamm, Germany
Saving money with the environment in a company doesn't look too profitable at first glance.
But the results of the two ECOPROFIT® projects in the CIty of Hamm have proven that black is white and we
have discovered huge potentials in every single participating company. In the second run we reached annual savings
of € 233,000 with one-off investments of € 82,000. Because of the huge success and strong interest from other companies
we have decided to start a third basic program immediately."
Mag. Gerda Schmid,
Department of Economic Affairs of the Province of Vorarlberg, Austria
"ECOPROFIT® has been executed since 1996 in Vorarlberg and we already have 115 certified companies.
In the last few years we have developed a new basis for ECOPROFIT®. The City of Dornbirn, the industrialist association Vorarlberg,
the environment association, the chamber of commerce and the Province of Vorarlberg have decided to join forces and support
ECOPROFIT® ideational and substantial. The Department of Econonmic Affairs of the Province of Vorarlberg has been charged with
the coordination. All of the above are convinced that ECOPROFIT® highly contributes to make our economic and living space more attractive.
With the Cleaner Production Center Austria we have a proficient partner that supports us. What we hugely appreciate is the
flexibility of ECOPROFIT® - it is applicable for small, medium and large enterpriseses, for the manufacturing and service industry.
The participants always confirm, that they profoundly benefit from the exchange of experiences and new ideas in the workshops."
Oskar Rovensky,
Andritz AG, Graz, Austria
"As an experienced and over a couple of years ECOPROFIT® certified company the Andritz AG has been benefiting from the
systematic and sustainable development of the environmental ideas in the framework of the ECOPROFIT® Club membership.
With the consistent preoccupation with environmental issues like energy, waste and emissions and in close co-operation with our
consultants and through 'best-practice-models', we were able to achieve high sustainable savings. Nameable results are for example
a 50% reduction in commercial waste or water savings of more than 45%."
Ing. Peter Paul Kemeter,
Siemens SGP Verkehrstechnik GmbH, Graz, Austria
"The participation in ECOPROFIT® was a huge success for our business. Predominantly we were able to promote and reinforce
the environmental awareness in our company and hence in every single employee. The ECOPROFIT® program was an ideal supplement
for the preparation for the Siemens-Matrix-Certification (Promehs) according to ISO 14001. Only through the ECOPROFIT® measures
we have been able to establish a ‚Cleaner Production Enterprise'. Especially in the area of waste and energy we were able to achieve
high savings. Me and my environment team are very happy to have paritipated in the ECOPROFIT® program and we will certainly continue
contributing to environmental protection."
Dir. Hubert Aumeier,
Grand Hotel Wiesler, Graz, Austria
"In addition to the high quality standard of our décor and services we would like to incorporate ecological aspects and let
them flow into the atmosphere of our house. Through ECOPROFIT® we, as a five-star-hotel, have found means and measures to act
environment friendly towards our guests and employees without restrictions of the service. We were able to reduce our environmental
impact and simultaneously, which is very positive from the economic point of view, achieve cost savings. These savings are invested
in further environmental programs. As the only five-star-hotel in Graz we receive visitors from all over the world and have decided to
give top priority to act as an ambassador for ECOPROFIT®."
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