Environmental sustainability - PMI’s climate strategy

My name is Frederic Voegele.

My current position is Manager Engineering Department,

here in Neuchâtel at PMP SA factory.

Every day I'm pleased to discover new things that are happening here at PMP SA.

Last year we were proud to receive the carbon-neutral factory label.

In order to run a facility like our facility, you mainly need electricity,

you need heat, and you need steam.

For the electricity, we are using green power.

It's a sustainable source of electricity.

Then, for the cold, we make use

of our beautiful location beside the lake so we are pumping the lake water

at 60-meter depth at 6 degrees to cool our entire facility.

The cool water that we use to cool down our installation is being heated.

So prior to ejecting it in the lake, we re-use the calories in that water.

We are able to heat our entire facility without burning natural gasses anymore.

The last source of energy where we need to burn natural gas is to generate steam.

This project is there

to use our organic waste, paper, wood, cigarettes, tobacco, to convert them into combustible gas

that will be used to generate steam, instead of using natural gas.

With those two projects, more or less nine million investment,

we'll be in a position not only to be certified carbon-neutral,

but to really have zero emission.

As a big company we have to pioneer and show the way for others to follow.