High end German home appliance maker Miele, based in the northwest German city of Gütersloh, has turned to low carbon green steel to decarbonize its supply chain, as it seeks to bolster the sustainability credentials of its products known for their durability. 123 year-old company launched a pilot project in November 2021 to source around 24 tonnes of low carbon steel a month from German steel maker Salzgitter for use in its cookers and ovens measuring 60cm in size in a pilot project. Miele started using green steel in top covers for stoves and ovens, all of which are produced in Miele’s Oelde plant. Further applications in other Miele appliances are currently being examinedMiele also aims to raise its annual use of recycled plastic to 7,500 tonnes by 2025 from 194 tonnes currently, mainly for use in making vacuum cleaners. Most of the firm’s kitchen, laundry appliance and vacuum cleaner production facilities are in Germany, while the remainders are in Austria, Eastern Europe and Dongguan in southern China.Miele has announced that, before the end of this year, it will already be operating in a CO2-neutral manner across all its locations in terms of greenhouse gas emissions from its own combustion processes Scope 1 and emissions from energy suppliers Scope 2. At the start of September, the company also announced a specific target for emissions from the utilization phase of Miele appliances that account for a major part of so-called Scope 3: These emissions are to have been lowered by 15 percent by 2030 in comparison with 2019 in terms of the overall consumption of all appliances in use.The low CO2 steel grades are produced in Peine’s mini mill and processed further in the rolling mills and galvanizing plants in Salzgitter. When steel scrap is melted, and through the deployment of climate compatible energy sources, the CO2 footprint of the galvanized material is 66% lower compared with the conventional production of steel via the blast furnace route. This has been verified by TÜV SÜD (German technical inspectorate) based on data from 2018 on the various process routes for producing strip steel.
High end German home appliance maker Miele, based in the northwest German city of Gütersloh, has turned to low carbon green steel to decarbonize its supply chain, as it seeks to bolster the sustainability credentials of its products known for their durability. 123 year-old company launched a pilot project in November 2021 to source around 24 tonnes of low carbon steel a month from German steel maker Salzgitter for use in its cookers and ovens measuring 60cm in size in a pilot project. Miele started using green steel in top covers for stoves and ovens, all of which are produced in Miele’s Oelde plant. Further applications in other Miele appliances are currently being examinedMiele also aims to raise its annual use of recycled plastic to 7,500 tonnes by 2025 from 194 tonnes currently, mainly for use in making vacuum cleaners. Most of the firm’s kitchen, laundry appliance and vacuum cleaner production facilities are in Germany, while the remainders are in Austria, Eastern Europe and Dongguan in southern China.Miele has announced that, before the end of this year, it will already be operating in a CO2-neutral manner across all its locations in terms of greenhouse gas emissions from its own combustion processes Scope 1 and emissions from energy suppliers Scope 2. At the start of September, the company also announced a specific target for emissions from the utilization phase of Miele appliances that account for a major part of so-called Scope 3: These emissions are to have been lowered by 15 percent by 2030 in comparison with 2019 in terms of the overall consumption of all appliances in use.The low CO2 steel grades are produced in Peine’s mini mill and processed further in the rolling mills and galvanizing plants in Salzgitter. When steel scrap is melted, and through the deployment of climate compatible energy sources, the CO2 footprint of the galvanized material is 66% lower compared with the conventional production of steel via the blast furnace route. This has been verified by TÜV SÜD (German technical inspectorate) based on data from 2018 on the various process routes for producing strip steel.
