This is what digitalization can look like: instead of spending a lot of time on paperwork and bureaucracy, BLANCO UK ltd., London’s suppliers can now process all their orders via a practical smartphone app. Drivers can scan goods or document a signature after successful delivery, for example. This saves a lot of time and work both during the delivery trip and afterwards. Customers benefit from this, as approximate delivery times can be better calculated and communicated in advance.

arche noVa e.V. is a Dresden-based non-profit organization that has set itself the goal of building water pumps in regions without access to clean drinking water and training the people living there in maintaining them. They have been doing this for 30 years. As a kitchen water hub specialist, the BLANCO-Group supported the charitable organization with a donation of 50,000 EUROS in 2021 and is planning to continue working together in the coming years. arche noVa e.V. has proven to be a highly professional and trustworthy partner. This is also the reason why the BLANCO-Group decided to donate a further 50,000 EUROS in March 2022 in view of the dramatic war situation in Ukraine.

Several buildings of the E.G.O.-Group (E.G.O.) in Oberderdingen have been heated completely with biomass from the neighboring, agricultural business Meerwarth GbR for over ten years. In 2020 alone, 776 metric tons of CO2 have been saved through the second power plant. Thanks to the second plant, E.G.O. even covers the entire share of its own electricity requirements at its German locations with renewable energies. That’s something to be proud of.

The heat generated during the high-energy processes in the foundry and annealing furnaces of ETA Tovarna d.o.o. Cerkno, Slovenia (ETA), has enormous potential. It would be a shame to simply blow this valuable energy into the wind. At ETA, this waste heat is used for a second time in a highly efficient manner—for heating technological processes and rooms as well as for heating domestic water. The rooms only need to be heated when outside temperatures fall below six degrees Celsius.

At ARPA SAS (ARPA), Niedermodern, France, this statement is taken quite literally: each individual product is checked for functionality and only then is it packed in a cardboard box made from 70 % recycled material. No plastic or polysterol repackaging or packaging materials are used at all. And that’s good because, in countries with insufficient waste disposal, these substances repeatedly end up in the sea, where they cause major damage in the long term. By the way, the products are never out of sight and out of mind. If something should ever be defective, they can be repaired. This is ensured by regular customer service training and special diagnostic tools. Tough times for empty bins!