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Green Shield helps the Environment
Victorinox began the Green Shield program in March of this year. This initiative is intended to help motivate employees even more to act in a sustainable way. The starting impulse was a viewing of Al Gore’s film An Uncomfortable Truth, which deals with the dangers of a changing climate. In a production hall on the Victorinox campus, which was converted to a move theater, company head Carl Elsener jr. emphasized the importance of environmental protection. The Green Shield program is designed to help promote the use of public transportation, riding bikes and saving energy at the workplace and in everyday practice through special promotions, such as May Bike Month, Muscles not Motors, and Saving with Power and Light.
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Environmental Policy: Production Processes


Thanks to several closed water cycles we are able to ensure that:
- all factory buildings and 120 appartments can be heated by recovering waste heat
- we are almost independent of crude oil
- 600 tons grinding sludge can be recylced.


Environmental Policy: Material Selection


Careful selection and manufacturing processes result in:
- environmentally friendly and 100% recyclable end products
- a comprehensive waste disposal concept for solid and liquid materials
- the total omission of heavy metals.




Environmental Policy: Packaging


The careful selection and application of materials enable:
- compliance with the requirements of "Green Point", member since 1993
- material utilization - blister packaging = PET
- the production of 90% of cardboard packaging using recycled materials,
- the production of instruction manuals and other paper documentaion packed with products 
  without using chlorine.

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