ETP Transmissions’ ambitious goal: Climate-neutrality 2025

ETP Transmission AB, which specializes in hydraulic clamping and centering products, has set up an aggressive sustainability goal: The company aims to be climate neutral within in just over two years. By shifting their focus to a life-cycle mindset and several other well-thought-out measures Niclas Rosberg, the CEO of ETP Transmission AB, is convinced that the goal will be accomplished.

The life cycle mentality has become an essential part of everything ETP Transmission AB does – from how they manage people issues to their energy consumption and manufacturing of products. By monitoring their processes ETP ensures that they are working towards the overall company goals in a sustainable way. Two years ago the company mapped the energy consumption and since then they’ve made plenty of amplifications to lower the carbon footprint.

– We installed meters on the machines we use during production and got figures on how much energy they draw. Now we know exactly when to turn the machines off in order to save as much energy as possible. It's amazing what an impact it has made, we saved 150-kilowatt hours in a year, Niclas Rosberg says before continuing:

– We’ve also made an active decision to buy 100 percent green electricity. We have an electric hybrid policy and have installed charging stations next to the office. It’s making a huge difference already.

Evaluation of third-party cooperations

The latest step for ETP has been to analyze their third-party cooperations. For instance, the company's largest supplier uses between 80-85 percent of hydrogen heating which can be produced from a range of diverse domestic resources with the potential for near-zero greenhouse gas emissions. ETP has also chosen to partner up with DHL and UPS in order to offer climate-compensated shipping. As for the in-house production of the hydraulic clamping products ETP uses circular steel, meaning that it never gets discarded as waste and instead is used as another form of resource. Plenty of work has been done and there is even more to come – now ETP is looking forward to stepping up its sustainability game another notch for 2023.

– As a company that sells 95 percent of exports, it’s difficult to get away from carbon emissions completely. Still, we will be carbon offsetting all our emissions to become carbon neutral by 2025, Niclas Rosberg expresses and concludes:

– Our environmental work has really accelerated in recent years, which feels great and, above all, important. It's now in the backbone of our employees and it enables each individual to make active environmentally friendly choices. We look forward to continuing to work towards our goal and taking responsibility for the sake of the climate.