Worldwide sustainable production

Pilz man­u­fac­tures within a world­wide net­work of pro­duc­tion sites. In addi­tion to its head­quar­ters, Pilz man­u­fac­tures in Betschdorf, at its sub­sidiary Elesta in Bad Ragaz in Switzer­land, and in Jintan, China.

The same pro­duc­tion stan­dards and processes and the same machinery are used across all pro­duc­tion sites. This guar­an­tees the con­sis­tently high quality of the prod­ucts and smooths the way for inter­na­tional coop­er­a­tion, both with cus­tomers and inter­nally. Sus­tain­ability and effi­ciency in pro­duc­tion and logis­tics are also a main focus. The pro­duc­tion net­work makes a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion towards achieving the com­pa­ny’s tar­gets for the con­sump­tion of elec­tricity, water and nitrogen, as well as waste bal­ance. Sus­tain­ability tar­gets are derived from the cor­po­rate objec­tives for each plant and are strictly imple­mented. At each site, mea­sures are being taken to mon­itor and reduce power con­sump­tion, for example. Var­ious projects con­tribute towards improving the waste bal­ance at each site. Pilz exam­ines at local level how to opti­mise deliv­eries and pack­aging from sup­pliers. 

In 2025, the Jintan pro­duc­tion site will cel­e­brate its 10th anniver­sary. The goal for this devel­op­ment was to supply cus­tomers in Asia more quickly with the prod­ucts they wanted, and that hasn’t changed. The new building in China under­lined the company’s claim to be a sus­tain­able busi­ness. That’s because, wher­ever pos­sible, Pilz fol­lows the “Local for Local” strategy and man­u­fac­tures where the prod­ucts are used, thus reducing envi­ron­men­tally dam­aging trans­port for example.

Conserve resources and save costs at the same time

The site in China also stands for respon­sible use of resources. The latest example is a plant to treat the waste­water from the cut­ting machine for alu­minium pro­files, which went into oper­a­tion in 2024.

The new system treats the water used for the cut­ting process so that it can be reused – and does not have to be fed into the external waste­water system. The water treat­ment plant means a con­sid­er­able saving of resources: around 38 m³ of waste­water are avoided each year, but that’s not all. Pilz Jintan can also reduce its oper­ating costs sig­nif­i­cantly.