Green Statement

Our actions have a future. We protect what we love

As a leading international textile company, PONGS® is aware of its environmental responsibility. Our aim is not only to meet the highest global environmental standards, but to significantly exceed their prescribed limits. To achieve this, we utilize state-of-the-art energy and environmental technologies to conserve resources, minimize our environmental impact, and produce in a climate-neutral manner.

PONGS® makes absolutely no compromises when it comes to environmentally friendly production processes: Thanks to a fully biological wastewater treatment plant, ozone reactors, flotation, ultrafiltration, and electrocoagulation, our wastewater leaves the production cycle as clean as it enters. Exhaust air pollutants are filtered out by 99.9% using state-of-the-art air scrubbers, neutralization, and activated carbon filters. Our goal is to generate all of our own heat, compressed air, and electricity using the latest combined heat and power (CHP) plants, compressed air heat pumps, and solar power plants. Our power plants already cover 40% of our heating and hot water needs and reduce the company’s CO2 emissions by approximately 900 tons per year. Another solar power plant with a capacity of approximately 600,000 kW is already in the planning stages. To utilize the energy for other processes, almost all machines and the compressed air heat pump plant are connected to heat recovery systems (saving more than 300,000 liters of heating oil per year).

The Global Recycled Standard (GRS) certification adds a crucial piece to our sustainability concept. It confirms PONGS®’s comprehensive use of recycled materials through an internationally renowned organization. We therefore produce entirely without PVC, with a steadily increasing use of recycled polyester as the basis of our textile production, and under demonstrably fair working conditions. This, too, is verified by the GRS seal.

Find out more about PONGS® ‘s ecological philosophy : GREEN STATEMENT