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Responsibility towards the environment

Saving potentials from remanufacturing

Reduce your CO2 footprint:

Possible with remanufacturing

Calculations carried out by an external expert reveale the following key results:

Resource saving and environmental protection are closely linked.

Raw materials such as metals and crude oil are finite, plus energy is expended in their extraction and processing.

Climate-relevant emissions result when extracting oil and gas, when smelting ores, when melting and forming metals as well as when generating electricity from fossil fuels and when transporting goods by road or sea.

Savings potential through recycling of components in the Reman programme

  • Remanufacturing gives a 60% reduced CO2 footprint for the components from a diesel engine with the same quality as for new parts.
  • Factoring in the replacement of cores no longer used by new parts, the CO2 saving is still more or less half.
  • The CO2 saving essentially results from retaining massive components made from materials such as steel and cast iron. An ability to reuse about three quarters of the cores (old parts) after corresponding cleaning and reconditioning means that these are no longer destined for scrap.
  • This does away with the need to melt down old metal again – an energy-intensive process – while eliminating a certain element of the primary production for metals and costly manufacturing of new components.
  • Depending on the supply chain, the transport expense for returning the cores (old parts) by road transport can be slightly higher than for new parts.
  • As regards the CO2 footprint, this extra expense is of minor significance and is surpassed by the considerable savings in regard to materials and processing expenditure.

This puts less pressure on the environment

The CO2 footprint is thus widespread as a leading indicator for resource and climate intensity:

It includes all these energy expenditures and the resultant emissions associated with a product.

If it is possible to retain and recondition components from materials such as steel and iron and reuse these, a burden will be taken off both raw material resources and the environment.

Liebherr therefore uses the CO2 footprint as an indicator for saving potentials from remanufacturing.

Reman Programme

The Liebherr product portfolio is as wide-ranging as the requirements of our customers. To meet these requirements, we have developed a special Reman Programme for our earthmoving and material handling customers.

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