Corporate Social Responsibility

Landis+Gyr is highly committed to sustainable development and therefore takes into consideration all issues that are material to its stakeholders. With its green products and service offering, Landis+Gyr contributes to a healthy society and responsible use of natural resources. Each of the over 5,900 employees plays a key role in the Company’s constant pursuit of innovations, projects and efforts that enable today’s society to better manage energy.

• Landis+Gyr avoids the use of harmful materials, thereby minimizing corresponding pollution
• Landis+Gyr integrates of life cycle and recycling aspects as an integral factor of the product design process
• Landis+Gyr reducts waste to a minimum
• Landis+Gyr complies with relevant health, safety and environmental regulations and standards, among them ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001

Creating the means for responsible resource management

Efficient resource management is seen as a pivotal means of addressing energy scarcity and climate change. The so-called Fifth Fuel substantially contributes to meeting this challenge. Being dedicated to this very goal, the products of Landis+Gyr create greater transparency by unfolding the origins of the power consumption. Smart Metering as an essential element of a Smart Grid allows for an intelligent and responsible use of natural resources as well as the integration and management of alternative energy sources even though this involves numerous distributed microsystems.

Landis+Gyr views its products as a technology enabling sustainable development. Moreover, the Company is constantly striving to optimize processes throughout the whole supply chain and is committed to providing its customers with the highest-quality products and services. In addition to its internal policies, Landis+Gyr acts in accordance with all relevant health, safety and environmental regulations, codes and standards.

Carbon footprint

Manage energy better is the Company’s mission. Since 2007 Landis+Gyr records its carbon footprint by engaging an independent company to quantify the firm’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Progress is monitored by collecting detailed emission data and by constantly analyzing this data and defining further improvement potential. Besides these efforts, we managed to constantly enhance the quality of data collection in 2011. The GHG Protocol provides the three “scopes” (scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3) in order to help delineate direct and indirect emission sources, improve transparency and provide utility for different types of organizations and different types of climate policies and business goals. The carbon footprint is expressed in CO2 equivalents (CO2e). The unit of measurement is metric tons, and all GHG emissions are converted to metric tons of CO2e, using appropriate GWP (Global Warming Potential) factors as published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This allows for the aggregation of all GHG emissions in one single indicator, expressed as the carbon footprint.

 

Landis+Gyr strives to behave as a responsible corporate citizen focusing on three essential pillars: greening by technology, greening of processes and greening of products. We provide enabling technology to energy utilities all over the globe helping them and their customers to manage energy better. The ultimate goal of Landis+Gyr is to make a substantial contribution to the conservation of nature and the climate and thereby helping society to build and realize the concept of future Smart Communities.

Landis+Gyr is highly committed to sustainable development and therefore takes into consideration all issues that are material to its stakeholders. With its green products and service offering, Landis+Gyr contributes to a healthy society and responsible use of natural resources. Each of the over 5,900 employees plays a key role in the Company’s constant pursuit of innovations, projects and efforts that enable today’s society to better manage energy.

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