Environment

Environmental Policy

As a health care company, Fresenius Kabi is committed to protect the environment and to use its resources responsibly and sustainably. It is our mission to constantly improve our environmental management system and to improve the company’s environmental performance.  

The environmental management system is based on the following guiding principles:

1. Prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution and the conservation of natural resources, including

Water/ Wastewater

• Sustainable use of water resources
• Avoiding pollution of sources from which water is withdrawn or into which wastewater is discharged
• Minimizing the risks of API releases into the environment and avoiding discharge of any antibiotic contaminated wastewater without treatment (in line with Antibiotic Manufacturing Standard by AMR Industry Alliance

Energy

• Increasing energy efficiency 
• Promote use of renewable energy

Waste

• Minimizing waste generation and disposal
• Optimizing recycling, reuse and recovery operations as well as efficiency in material use

Emissions

• Avoiding accidental emissions to air, soil or water
• Continuously reducing GHG emissions to meet the target to be climate neutral in our own operations by 2040. This applies both to direct and indirect CO2 emissions (Scope 1 and 2).

Biodiversity 

• Promoting protection, conservation, and sustainable use of biologically diverse ecosystems and habitats

2. Promoting awareness of responsibility for the environment to all employees and providing the policy and the scope of the EMS to external interested parties

3. Assess and monitor environmental aspects and their environmental impacts of existing and new or changed company activities and products as well as taking environmental aspects and impacts during our life cycle stages into account;

4. Strict adherence to compliance obligations regarding environmental protection; 

5. Continually improving the environmental management system to enhance environmental performance and setting up environmental objectives and corresponding KPI’s;

6. Establishment and application of procedures for the control of compliance with the environmental policy.

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More information:  
​In addition to this Environmental Policy, please find Fresenius Kabi's Corporate Environmental and Energy Management Certificates on our Certificates and Downloads page. We welcome any questions regarding these at EHSpolicies@fresenius-kabi.com.

With the energy management system ISO 50001 at Fresenius Kabi, we want to improve our energy performance and prevent excessive use of energy. Key opportunities are reducing energy and emissions in proportion to the volume of production activities.

We derive our energy mainly from external providers. This includes the purchase of renewable energy such as hydropower, solar, or wind power. We also generate electricity in our own facilities and use, e.g., combined heat and power systems or solar panels at our own sites. 

Fresenius Kabi is working to introduce the energy management system according to the international standard ISO 50001 at all manufacturing plants worldwide by 2026³. To achieve the goal of implementing the management system, Fresenius Kabi has drawn up an ambitious plan and is working systematically on its realization. By expanding the coverage of the management system, we aim to continuously improve our energy performance. A total of 27 of our organizations are currently certified according to ISO 50001, including seven additional manufacturing
plants which were certified 2022.

Energy Savings in Production

Fresenius Kabi has taken further steps to use energy from solar power. Thus, we, for example, have put into operation solar panels at our sites in Guangzhou in China, Haina in the Dominican Republic and San German in Puerto Rico in 2022. The recently installed solar panels have a capacity of about 4,883,000 KWh per year. The energy will be used in the production of our MedTech products. We are working on extending the number of solar panels at our own sites in the future.

³ The implementation will be concluded at all Fresenius Kabi manufacturing plants in 2026. The certification issuance from the individual certification companies may extend into the following year.

At Fresenius Kabi, water is used for the most part in production, for example, for cooling or in sanitary facilities, and is discharged as wastewater.

Some manufacturing plants are reusing water, namely by using condensate water from installed air handling units or in steam condensate recovery systems. Fresenius Kabi also uses water for its products, for instance, for infusion solutions such as sodium chloride infusions. The water used for this purpose must meet stringent quality requirements to ensure product quality and patient safety.

Our global environmental standard operating procedures and working instructions include the responsible handling of water, for example, the control of wastewater. Each of Fresenius Kabi’s manufacturing sites is required to evaluate its environmental impact, such as from water usage and wastewater. Water management measures consider a reduction in water and wastewater volumes and monitor the quality and authorized withdrawal of water and discharge of wastewater.

Information Platform for Energy and Water Management

Fresenius Kabi’s Global Competence Cluster (GCC) Energy and Water Management supports the manufacturing plants in managing water as a scarce resource. Management practices are being shared among sites and water saving projects are continuously being fostered. Thereby, Fresenius Kabi aims to increase efficiency of water usage.

At Fresenius Kabi, waste is mainly generated as a by-product of production processes or packaging material of the product containers in hospitals, private households, and nursing homes. This includes non-hazardous and hazardous waste – namely, solvents, cytostatics, and antibiotics. The internally generated waste is recycled to a large extent. Non-recyclable hazardous waste is mainly incinerated, and a large part of it is used in energy recovery.

Our manufacturing sites are required to separate their waste according to local regulations and store it with environmental protection measures, such as avoiding contamination, in mind.

Recycling Rate