Waste Bins For Kitchens

• ArciTech waste systems
• InnoTech Atira waste system
• ArciTech and InnoTech Atira
• ArciTech and InnoTech Atira waste systems
• Waste Collecting System 300
• ArciTech and InnoTech Atira

Hettich and the environment: committed to responsible practice, active protection, innovative thinking.

Hettich takes a responsibility for the world we live in. This awareness defines the strict policy of environmental management that we practise. Our environmental officer has taken personal responsibility for these aspects throughout the group of companies over a period of many years. In addition, a separate environment committee has been established for each production site. We regard statutory provisions as minimum requirements. At significant sites we also implement the stringent EMAS Regulation. And we drive forward developments that in future will help to save even more raw materials and support the necessary endeavours towards sustainability. 

Hettich environmental management

In 1996 Hettich started introducing effective environmental management systems under the stringent EMAS Regulation (currently: EC Regulation No. 761/2001, including EN ISO 14.001/2004). This not only enables us to improve our environmental performance on a broad front but also to achieve a high level of safety which, not least, also benefits our customers. This is why we also require our suppliers to meet the necessary minimum standards of environmental protection, industrial safety, health care and social welfare. 

The results achieved in the drawer runner and drawer system product segment at theKirchlengern operation in Germany illustrate the impressive effects these measures have and verifiably demonstrate our tireless endeavours to translate words into action: 

Relief to the environment between 1997 and 2008: 

• Specific water consumption: 56%
• Specific power consumption: 21%
• Specific heat consumption: 84%
• Specific CO2 emissions: 29%

Hettich standard for product materials

Hettich underpins its commitment by applying an internal standard for product materials. This ensures that every product – from production to disposal – satisfies all environmental requirements. Hettich products are durable. Appropriately foresighted, our rigorous standards are formulated to ensure that international legislation is also met. This provides a reliable basis for marketing furniture worldwide.

Zero energy building - Hettich Forum

The Hettich Forum building with its neutral energy balance is a shining example of future-proof building design. Photovoltaic panels and solar collection system providing hot water as well as extensive roof greening and use of rainwater underscore this building's overall sustainability concept in just the same way as the broad use of cellulose insulation material from recycled newspapers, highly efficient heat recovery and the bulb-free lighting concept do. 

With the Hettich group of companies having acquired European Commission GreenBuilding Partner status on 5 March 2009, the comprehensive approach demonstrated by the Hettich Forum has also convinced the adjudicating panel of the national "Green Building Award 2009". Hettich received the first prize to be presented in the "New Building" category.