Protection of the environment and employees’ health

By reducing our carbon footprint in a targeted way over the long term, we are helping to protect the climate and reduce the burden of greenhouse emissions on the planet.

Even though the permitted limits for individual pollutants are regularly reduced, we have not exceeded emission limits for a long time. On the contrary, we are not a significant air polluter.

Throughout the entire production process, we place long-term emphasis on purposeful activities and projects aimed at continuously reducing the amount of waste and limiting its hazardous properties. These activities focus primarily on the more efficient use of raw materials and adaptation to the changing structure of the product portfolio. Compliance with our Ten Rules of Environmental Protection is also an integral part of this.

As for packaging materials, we work with the company EKO-KOM, which ensures that they are collected and used.

However, across all industries the future scarcity of raw materials and energy resources, along with their wastefulness, is becoming more and more evident. Common sense, combined with the expertise of our employees and the principles of the circular economy, leads us to seek out opportunities for our further development in the recycling of used materials and their transformation into high value-added products for our customers.

We also use various waste materials as resources for further production, thus saving natural resources. An example is waste from zinc smelters and pickling plants (zinc ash, acid pickling solutions), which we process into the required form for subsequent use in the production of zinc chloride.

Water management is an important part of sustainability. Through innovations in production technologies we have ensured production against the leakage of harmful substances and the appropriate storage of materials. Water management is an important part of sustainable development. Through innovation in production technologies, we have ensured production that prevents the leakage of harmful substances and the appropriate storage of materials. To reduce the pH of alkaline water in our wastewater treatment plant, we use carbon dioxide (CO₂) which behaves like a weak carbonic acid when dissolved in water. Neutralizing water with this acid produces carbonates and bicarbonates, which are natural components of water.

The origin of the CO₂  used is also a significant benefit – The supplier guarantees that it will be either a waste product from chemical production, a waste product from a biological process (most often ethanol production), or it will be of volcanic, i.e., natural origin.

We value our employees, who are the main reason for the Company’s success, and we create a working environment for them that they feel good in. We are constantly improving process safety in production, for which we have detailed safety documentation. We also regularly undergo regular inspections by state authorities. However, we place the greatest emphasis on prevention.

Every five years, we cooperate with the Moravian-Silesian Region, its Fire and Rescue Service and the town of Bohumín to publish an information leaflet about the risks of a potential accident at our chemical plant. In it the residents of Bohumín can find information on how to react in case of danger, how to act in a crisis situation and contacts to all important institutions where they can find further details.