German company MTU Aero Engines has published a report it described as giving “information on its goals, progress and achievements in the six fields of action covered by its sustainability strategy”.
“In addition to products, production and maintenance, the six categories include corporate governance, employees, procurement and society,” the company announced during its May 11 annual general meeting, adding that “diversity is another focus topic in the report”.
“Transforming aviation is more than just a slogan. It is part of our DNA and is derived from MTU’s corporate mission statement,” said chief executive Lars Wagner.
The company said it regards “climate protection” as “a key concern for operations” at its facilities, reminding that in 2021 it put in place an “ecoRoadmap climate protection strategy” .
The roadmap strategy aims “to make production and maintenance more sustainable in this regard”, MTU said, adding that the strategy roadmap was in 2022 rehatted as “MTU Green Europe”.
The company said all of its European production sites were in 2022 “actively contributing to the common goal of 60 % lower CO2 emissions by 2030”, though the strategy had yet to be extended to its Serbia operation.
In 2023, the roadmap strategy will be extended to Serbia, and to the company’s Canadian facilities, MTU said, meaning the initiative “becomes ‘MTU Green Global’”.
“Sustainable energy-saving measures, the increased use of green energy and the expansion of the company’s own emission-free power generation make up the core of these endeavours”, MTU said, reminding that it began exploratory drilling in 2022 as part of a plan to use geothermal energy instead of gas at its Munich site.
“The long-term goal is to achieve climate neutrality across all sites (Scope 1 & 2) by 2045,” MTU said.
