Reducing our CO emissions 2 Reducing our CO emissions 2 Corporate strategy and targets Hilti has developed a CO emission reduction strategy aiming to considerably reduce 2 the carbon footprint on the corporate level. Hilti will decouple planned economic growth in the next years from CO emissions by implementing a number of reduction 2 and substitution initiatives. The initiatives concern Hilti’s internal energy consumption in office buildings, factories, and car fleets in the market organisations around the globe. The CO emission reduction initiatives focus on absolute reductions targets for the in- 2 frastructure (office buildings & factories) and for the car fleets. Energy efficiency in Global Manufacturing A project on energy efficiency was started in our plant in Liechtenstein in 2009 to bat- tle the under-utilization of tools. The goal of the project is a prompt implementation of measures leading to a 5% reduction of energy consumption. The evaluation of this project proved the following four measures lead to the largest and fastest energy savings: 1. Optimization of information flow plant - utilities management 2. Clear responsibilities set for control of lighting 3. Systematic switch-off of machines after the working day 4. Air-pressure optimization Optimization of information flow plant- utilities management Working at weekends must be registered by Thursdays 12:00 a.m. If there is no prior notification, the heating, cooling and compressed air utilities will be shut down on Saturdays and Sundays. The improved communication between our plant and the utilities management will result in noticeable improvements of energy efficiency, es- pecially at times of under-utilization. Clear responsibilities set for control of lighting Hilti plans to put a system in place for lighting control, management coaches at each plant unit will be responsible for implementing a method ensuring all lights in the plant will be turned off. This will result in considerable energy savings as well as reductions in maintenance costs. Systematic switch-off of machines after the working day It was detected that 82% of the machinery in plants can be switched off! These ma- chines were labelled to make the switch-off functionality visible for everyone. Air-pressure optimization Labelled machines were checked for leakage. However, there were machines that leaked air when in off-mode as they had not been switched off correctly. The employ- ees in production in the plants were again reminded of the right way for switching off the machines. New machines will incorporate air pressure optimised solutions. Renewable energy We have noted that the purchase of electricity holds significant potential for reducing CO. We therefore purchase electricity at our locations in Austria largely from renew- 2 able sources (greater than 80%). Hilti keeps records of all the electricity that we pur- chase, and whenever possible we buy renewable energy from certified sources. Environmental management at Hilti 7