Ecology at CDS

One of the basic objectives of our company is to provide high-quality products with regard to the environment.

We perform all our activities environment-friendly and in view of the elimination their eventual negative impact on the environment as much as possible by seeking optimal processes and materials.

Our company is situated in the beautiful region below Mount Ještěd, whose inhabitants are closely connected with nature. This is why we also try to pollute the environment as little as possible and to preserve our beautiful region for future generations.

Teaching all our employees to be responsible to the environment is one of most important elements of our green production programm..

Our achievements in the protection of the environment during 1995 - 2012:

• 1990´s: Replaced solid fuel boilers with natural gas ones
• 2008 – 2009: Reticulated natural gas to most of our appliances and eliminated the heat exchanger as an ineffective interlink in the heat transmission
• 2009 Replaced the most frequently used doors to the production halls with heat-insulated doors with a remote control
• 2010: Installed separate gas heating on the first floor of the administration building
• 2009 - 2012: Substituted a high quantity of old machines with a small number of CNC machines with a lower consumption of electric power and cutting oils
• 2008-2009: Complete insulation of buildings in the "Loukovičky" area and replaced all the old wooden windows by plastic ones

Thanks to all of these steps we have reached the reduction of consumption of natural gas by almost 40% and the consumption of electric power by 30% during the last five years.

Our objectives to reduce energy consumption in 2012 – 2013:

• 2013: To finish the gas mains and install gas heaters also to the rest parts of production plant
• 2011: To reconstruct the drying box for painted parts - OBJECTIVE COMPLETED
• 2010: To replace the heating system in the main building of company management - OBJECTIVE COMPLETED
• 2010: To reduce and insulate the ceiling in the Loukovičky plant - OBJECTIVE COMPLETED
• 2013: To focus on a lower consumption of packaging and to try packaging from biodegradable materials;
• Permanent: To separate waste diligently;
• Permanent: To reduce the circulation of paper documents and the number of copies and to hand over as many documents and information as possible electronically;
• Permanent: To reduce the quantity of cooling and tooling fluids

The objectives of these measures is to further reduce the consumption of natural gas by 10 – 15 % and electric power by 10 %.