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far, Germany has fallen far short of its targets: the goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent above 1990 levels, which was the goal initially set for 2020, was not achieved in 2021 either. It is the responsibility of businesses and industry to develop and implement climate protection measures. Each and every one of us has a responsibility to take action now.

As a leader in technology, the EJOT Group already makes important contributions in numerous areas to the circular economy and energy saving thanks to its product diversity, including the fields thermal insulation, electromobility, car body construction and solar technology.

In order to achieve the ambitious goal of climate neutrality by 2035, EJOT is focusing, among other things, on preventing emissions by installing photovoltaic systems to produce solar energy which can be harnessed to convert the company’s own vehicle fleet to electromobility and promoting employee leasing of e-bikes.

EJOT is also increasingly focusing on climate neutrality in its construction activities, as is the case with the construction of the new TecCenter in Bad Laasphe, Germany. The innovative TecCenter will have a “passive house character,” including facade greening, photovoltaic systems, geothermal energy with heat pumps, and charging stations for e-vehicles in front of the building – the TecCenter thus fulfils the KfW investing and development bank requirements necessary for German companies to receive funding designed to promote climate neutrality through sustainable construction projects.

From 2025 on, EJOT will exclusively purchase “green electricity” at all its sites – the pioneers of the group, EJOT Austria and EJOT Poland, have already been purchasing electricity from renewable energy sources for years. Furthermore, we plan to produce up to 10% of our own electricity for all EJOT buildings through renewable energy sources by 2030. The new building at the EJOT Türkiye site will directly fulfil this quota through a 2,000 kWp PV system.

At the EJOT Polska site in Ciasna, Poland, all devices and systems in the building and its surroundings have been monitored and managed since 2017 via the use of an integrated Building Management System (BMS) to ensure energy-efficient production. The system can react to changes in real time and automatically regulate optimal and efficient energy consumption. At the China site, heat is already generated from geothermal energy with a heat pump.

At the beginning of 2022, EJOT France, together with other companies and the French municipality of Villè, started an energy partnership project: Sustainably produced electricity will be sold regionally and all participating companies will be able to make a concrete contribution to the energy transition.

On its path to climate neutrality, EJOT knows it can also count on the support of its employees: At the end of 2022, EJOT will introduce a financial participation scheme for employees – as another important step on the path to climate neutrality. Employees worldwide can share creative ideas for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and, depending on the GHG savings achieved, will be awarded financial participation rights, thus also profiting in the financial success of the company, a form of capital participation without voting rights. The financial contributions made are invested exclusively in sustainable projects to reduce GHG emissions.

Employees are also involved in reforestation projects, for example at the sites in Germany and the UK, and thus they help firsthand to promote biodiversity and nature conservation.

An international steering committee has been established to implement the sustainability strategy in all areas of the company. Progress made by the company in reducing its GHG emission levels is systematically tracked by the committee using key figures and targets Since 2013, EJOT has been transparently publishing data on all its GHG emissions directly and indirectly caused by the company’s activities in a Corporate Carbon Footprint Report according to the standards of the international Greenhouse Gas Protocol. The EJOT Carbon Footprint is measured on the basis of three emission sources, the so-called scopes: Scope 1 emissions include the release of GHG’s within the company, for example from heating systems or the company’s own vehicle fleet. Scope 2 emissions take into account the energy that the company obtains externally – primarily, electricity and district heating. Scope 3 includes all other emissions caused by the company's activities, for example via suppliers or end consumers.

EJOT is committing itself to the path of climate neutrality. The challenge of achieving climate neutrality will shape our very future. It is a task which requires great responsibility, but it is one that EJOT cannot solve alone. 77 percent of EJOT’s worldwide emissions are attributable to Scope 3. This is a share that cannot be directly influenced by us. However, our strong partnerships with suppliers and service providers, some of which have been in place for many years, make us optimistic that we will also achieve this goal – the reduction of the share of Scope 3 GHG emissions – together with our partners.

EJOT supports the use of green granulate and green steel as well as a GHG-free logistics chain. Only through a joint effort from all parties involved in the supply chain can EJOT achieve climate neutrality by 2035. So let's do it. Let’s shape our future together. E

1998

After a six-month construction period, the new warehouse with an area of 1,000 m2 and the new office building are finished at the EJOT CZ Ricany-Jazlovice site near Prague. A modern location with good transport links.

1999

First Electronic Construction Catalog in the form of a CD-ROM. With this new technology the customer can retrieve information about EJOT in general as well as about the products of EJOT Construction Fasteners. All approvals and test certificates are included in the CD and linked to the products. In addition, an order can be printed directly from the delivery program.

1999

20 years after the market launch of the PT® screw the Industrial Fasteners Division presents its new “flagship” fastener for plastics – the DELTA PT®. In addition to the screw, a computeraided calculation program is developed for the design of the joint, this allows the screw joint to be simulated over a long period of time and creates more security for the application.

1999

Mourning for Hermann Großberndt. The inventor of the PT ® screw dies at the age of 68. Mr. Großberndt had a decisive influence on the technical development, first at Eberhard Jaeger and later at EJOT. As early as the 1950s, he invented the first cold-formed self-drilling screw tip and thus revolutionized fastening technology worldwide.

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Projekt TREEATHLON® – EJOT’s contribution to the reforestation effort

On the occasion of the EJOT Group’s centenary in 2022, the company is supporting the reforestation effort in the Wittgenstein region. Together with the Wittgenstein Berleburg’schen Rentkammer, the forestry administration of the family zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, a 3.2 hectare area at Albrechtsplatz will be reforested with a climate-stable mixture of deciduous and coniferous trees.

>>Text: Andreas Wolf U nder professional guidance, around 2,000 seedlings will be planted per hectare in the EJOT company forest: Douglas fir, coastal fir, larch, sycamore maple and red oak. The plants are selected according to current scientific findings and many years of operational experience of the forestry experts of Wittgenstein Berleburg'schen Rentkammer.

In the anniversary year, EJOT Group employees in Wittgenstein will each plant one red oak seedling in the company forest, which spans a total of 1,200 m². The red oaks will be planted in the shape of the red EJOT company logo so that the EJOT logo will later be easily discernible from the sky.

In total, this reforestation project will remove an average of approx. 24 tons of the greenhouse gas CO2 from the atmosphere per year over the coming decades. To put that into context, that is enough CO2 to fill up a cube with a height of 192 m. In 2019, each German citizen produced an average of 11.6 tons of CO2.

The 24 tons of annual CO2 savings that EJOT is making with this initiative are therefore more of a symbolic contribution to climate protection. For EJOT, the reforestation project TREEATHLON® is also about raising awareness among its employees and their families of forests, nature and climate and to observe how the EJOT company forest develops in the next 25 years. For this purpose, regular campaign and information events will held in the EJOT company forest even beyond the anniversary year. EJOT is striving to create an educational space which helps impart knowledge on sustainable forestry and, to this end, has agreed a long-term project partnership with the Rentkammer.

After three extremely dry years in 2018, 2019, 2020, the bark beetle has attacked thousands of trees in the Wittgenstein region – with dramatic consequences. The affected trees must be felled and transported out of the forest as quickly as possible. Entire patches of forest have disappeared and forest owners have lost out on millions due to the damage caused. E

Drone image from the afforestation area of the EJOT TREEATHLON® in March 2022.

1999

Foundation of EJOT Austria GmbH in Voitsberg. The sales office for application technology and sales for industrial products exists since 1992. In order to accommodate the positive sales developments and the expansion of the product range to include building products, the new national company is founded: The building with storage space can already be moved into, and plans for a separate warehouse and office building are also underway.

2000

Foundation of EJOT Slovakia, s.r.o., Kosice, Slovakia. Kosice is located in the east of Slovakia about 80 km west of the Ukrainian border and 20 km north of the Hungarian border. The company is the result of close cooperation with a major construction group.

2000

Acquisition of the majority shareholding of the company Tezmak, Istanbul, Türkiye, and foundation of the joint venture EJOT Tezmak. EJOT has already been represented in Türkiye with a sales office for seven years. Tezmak is a Turkish screw manufacturer. The know-how from both companies is combined to compete in an emerging market. The site is located in the European part of Istanbul and aims to achieve QS9001 certification first.