Sustainability

Clean air, fertile soils, pure water: People require these to live. As a regionally established company, we are intent on conserving the environment as best as possible and to preserve it for coming generations. Furthermore, climate change presents us with formidable challenges. KH works constantly to reduce its carbon emissions and to use any form of energy sparingly.

Biological Waste Air Purification

Since 2016, KH has proved to be a true pioneer with the ‘BIOMAT’. The waste air from our painting plant is transformed into pure breathing air through 2050 cubic meters of wood chips. This occurs using a purely biological basis without the utilization of chemicals or natural gas. Up to 80.000 cubic meters of waste air is cleaned per hour.

Low-carbon Injection Molding

Wherever we can make a difference, we do. For all own-products, such as painting carriers, KH makes use of 100% regranulate. This we partly produce ourselves by grinding sprues and re-using that material.

Energy-optimized Buildings

Always on the ball: We permanently optimize the building envelopes of our plants through, for instance, the installation of energy-saving windows. The ventilation systems at KH are operated by heat recovery and controlled using an intelligent building control system.

Green Energy

Soon we will be generating green energy on our rooves, precisely there, where it is required. A total of 400 kWp will be put into operation, followed by a ground-mounted system on the premises of the KH Technical Centre.

Climate-neutral Heating

The Franconian Forest is at our front door. In the future, a local heat network utilizing regional wood chips, will connect plants 1 to 4. The short transport distances and the renewable raw materials make the whole thing climate neutral.

Emission-free Mobility

Who else, when not us? For the VW id3 electric car, we not only supply steering wheel components, but also use them ourselves in our own fleet of vehicles. Furthermore, hybrid vehicles are used at KH for travelling longer distances.

Recycling with Added Value

95% Separate collection quota: At KH, waste is collected by type so that it is suitable for recycling. Re-usable plastics are either used ourselves or sent to specialized companies. Of course, we do attempt to avoid waste of any sort as best as possible.

Compressed Air without Wastage

The most modern air compressors with heat recovery and intelligent control system: This is how we are able to generate the compressed air for our tools and machines using very low energy consumption. To ensure nothing is lost, all wiring and loads at KH are monitored with ultrasonic measuring instruments.

Paperless Office

We confess: We are not quite there yet. However, the digitalization of all business processes is proceeding and helps KH save more and more paper.

Certification According to DIN EN ISO 50001 DIN EN ISO 50001

The ISO 50001 norm confirms how sparingly and sensibly KH uses energy overall. Since 2015, we have continuously been certified according to this standard.