Swedish Volvo plant was environmentally neutral

25 January 2018

The company switched to heating with biomass and recycled biofuels

Today, more and more car companies begin to worry about sustainability of not only their cars, but also factories. For example, a couple of years ago, Toyota one of its Japanese factories sapitula from solar panels. Volvo went even further. Its Swedish Assembly line she completely moved to renewable energy in 2008, and now its plant in the town of skövde still be heated without damage to the environment.

Such production is called "environmentally-neutral". This means that it has no impact on the environment. To warm the plant will be due to the combustion of waste, biomass and recycled biomass. The Swedes claim that "carbon footprint" (meaning emissions of carbon dioxide, CO2, that is, carbon dioxide) of the company is now zero.

In the future, Volvo is going to translate to such a scheme all their factories. The company plans to completely stop emissions by 2025.

The fun fact of this story is that the plant in skövde produce internal combustion engines that will be all my life only deals with the fact that to produce carbon dioxide and other environmentally harmful substances. But Volvo buyers can now be assured that during Assembly was not thrown away a single gram of CO2.