SKF was the first international bearing manufacturer to receive global certification according to the ISO 14001 international standard for environmental management in 1998. The purpose of having global certification is that all SKF's manufacturing sites, technical and engineering centres and logistics locations, are required to maintain and uphold high performance standards regardless of geographical locations or social and economic conditions in the country.
The SKF Group-wide certificate consisted of 90 sites in 28 countries at the end of 2008.
All SKF manufacturing units, logistics centres and technical centres are encompassed in the auditing scope except for recently acquired companies. These companies are working towards the inclusion to meet SKF Group's requirements and standard.
Newly acquired companies scheduled for 2009 inclusion:
- Austria: Economos - Judenburg
- China: SKF ATC - Shanghai
- France: Economos - Vernouillet
- France: S2M - Vernon
- USA: Baker Instruments Co. - Ft Collins
- USA: SKF Machine Tools - Mentor
- Taiwan: ABBA - Taipei
In compliance to the requirement of ISO 14001 environment management system, SKF continually demonstrates improvements on its environmental performance.
Targets are established and reviewed annually in tackling environmental challenges resulted from for instance greenhouse gases emissions, natural resources consumption, and wastes. |
