Striving towards more sustainable industry

Cavotec’s Thomas Widegren, Group Market Unit Manager, Aviation, describes how the Cavotec Group seeks to help industry operate more sustainably.

“Our engineers seek to challenge and improve existing practice, wherever appropriate.”
-Thomas Widegren

How can companies meet demands to operate more sustainably without altering their existing business model?

TW. We tend to see steps to improve sustainability as being beneficial to companies' business models because such initiatives, often by their very nature, generate operational efficiencies. Efforts to improve sustainability offer benefits not only for local communities and society as a whole, but can also be considered as an effective, and indeed, necessary way of improving companies' long-term prospects. Reducing the consumption of resources and increasing productivity are of obvious benefit to all stakeholders. Operating a more sustainable business can help to cut costs - often substantially - and should be seen as an opportunity to change inefficient and often costly practices.

Cavotec develops innovative solutions that help industry operate more efficiently and more sustainably. We design and manufacture systems for airports and ports and the maritime, mining and tunneling, and general industry sectors. Our engineers seek to challenge and improve existing practice, wherever appropriate. For example, our automated vacuum mooring system, MoorMaster, removes the need for traditional mooring lines and makes ports safer and more efficient.

To what extent can companies become more sustainable?

TW. At Cavotec, we strive to be agile, flexible, and above all, work closely with our customers to deliver solutions that meet their specific requirements. Cavotec supports operators in an extraordinarily wide variety of sectors, integrating systems and pioneering solutions that bring tangible benefits to industries and communities throughout the world.

Our Alternative Maritime Power (AMP) technology, for example, allows ships in ports in Canada, Sweden, Germany and the US to turn off their engines while in port and connect to shore-side electricity, thus reducing fuel consumption and improving air quality. Cavotec systems have also been adopted at airports worldwide.

How is Cavotec helping industry to become more sustainable?

TW. Whether at the world's ports and airports, in mines and tunnels deep below the Earth's surface, far out at sea serving the offshore energy industry, or in countless precision automation applications, Cavotec systems strive to help operators improve sustainability and reduce environmental impact.

In addition to the AMP system mentioned above, Cavotec's pre-conditioned air system, PCAir, cools parked aircraft, allowing pilots to switch off their engines earlier, thus reducing emissions at airports, and in turn, helping to improve air quality at airports and surrounding communities. In mines and tunnels and in a vast number of general industry applications, our systems help industry to operate more smoothly and more efficiently. We continue to apply our expertise gathered from the past five decades to help industry function more sustainably.

Biography

Thomas Widegren is responsible for the marketing of Cavotec's Airports Market Unit worldwide. He has previously served as Chairman of Cavotec Middle East.

For further details on this material, contact Michael Scheepers, Group Manager, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, at michael.scheepers@cavotec.com.

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