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Audi Hungaria’s sustainability projects

Solar park

Also contributing to carbon-neutral operation, Europe’s largest rooftop solar farm was commissioned on the company’s premises in 2020. In a joint project with the E.ON Hungária Group, a total of 160,000 m2 (the equivalent of 22.4 soccer pitches) of the roofs of two Audi Hungaria logistics centres were covered with this “green” energy source. The plant, which consists of more than 36,000 solar panels, generates just over 9.5 GWh of energy annually, enough to supply 3,800 households with power each year. Green electricity from renewable sources reduces carbon dioxide emissions by around 4,900 tonnes.

Solar park

Closed-loop aluminium

The closed-loop recycling of aluminium is a major contribution to achieving sustainability objectives, saving the company significant resources and further reducing its ecological footprint. Under the Aluminium Closed Loop project, launched on 1 July 2021, aluminium scrap from the production process is returned to the supplier, after selective collection by alloy, to be recycled into aluminium coils of the same quality as the original materials and returned to Audi. The process reduces the use of primary raw materials, as the aluminium scrap from the extrusion plant is recycled as a secondary raw material of the same quality as the original. A further advantage of this system is that energy consumption is reduced by 95 per cent during production using a secondary raw material compared to production using a primary raw material.

Closed-loop aluminium

Geothermal energy

The earth’s heat is our energy: Audi Hungaria covers most of its thermal energy needs with geothermal energy. Since 2012, we have been using a geothermal powerplant, which covers more than 70 per cent of our site’s thermal energy needs. This makes our company the largest industrial user of geothermal energy in Hungary. The system provides Audi Hungaria with at least 82,000 megawatt hours of thermal energy per year. By using geothermal energy for heating, we prevent the emission of more than 18,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. We compensate for the rest of our thermal energy needs with biogas certificates.

Geothermal energy

Smart hives

To preserve biodiversity, in May 2021, we joined the “we4bee” initiative, supported by the Audi Environmental Foundation, and added a smart hive with hightech sensors to our own on-site apiary. The sensors enable the hive to record data such as temperature, humidity, air pressure, weight, sound vibrations and fine dust load values. The aim of the programme is to study the behaviour of honeybees and the effect of the environment on honeybee colonies, based on data from hundreds of networked smart hives, mostly in Germany. The aim is to support the work of beekeepers in the near future and, in the longer term, to forecast upcoming environmental events (such as storms and earthquakes).

Smart hives

Earth Week programme

In September 2021 and 2022, our colleagues were invited to a “green lifestyle” event with a series of sustainability-related activities and presentations. The events of the week, which started with a group cycling excursion were structured around four themes: ‘green transport’, where our staff could learn about the environmentally friendly alternatives available to them for commuting to work. The presentations on ‘green thinking’ and ‘green consumption’ focused on environmentally conscious solutions for everyday life and nutrition. The fourth theme presented the activities that Audi Hungaria is carrying out to contribute to a sustainable future by supporting its carbon-neutral operations.

Earth Week programme

Steps towards a greener future

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