Seat has announced plans to cut its environmental footprint in half by 2025 compared with its 2010 figure as it aims to do its bit to reduce pollution.
The Spanish brand appears to be well on track with its plans having already reduced its output by 33.6% compared with 2010. In 2011 – when it launched the strategy – the company aimed to reduce its environmental footprint by a quarter by 2018.
Seat said it has lowered CO2 emissions at its factories by 66.2% thanks to measures including recovering heat when building vehicles, better control of air conditioning units and the purchase of cleaner energy.
In addition, the firm said it generated 41.4% less waste thanks to better packaging, while energy and water consumption have fallen by 21.7% and 22.5% respectively as a result of lowering the temperature in some manufacturing processes.
Thanks to these changes, Seat claims it consumes half the energy required to produce a vehicle compared with the sector average in Europe.
“In 2016 we invested close to ?23 million to improve our environmental performance,” said Seat vice-president for production Andreas Tostmann. “It is a great satisfaction to be able to claim today that we have already reached the goal we set for ourselves for 2018 and that we have an ambitious target for 2025.”
