Ecolifting means decreasing the carbon footprint of our customers by reducing emissions in their operations with the help of our products and services. This is a long-term, maybe never-ending, mission. At Konecranes, we work hard to reduce the emissions caused by our own operations. We do this by improving the energy efficiency of our factories/services and moving to renewable energy sources.
Konecranes works for a decarbonized and circular world for customers and society. We are helping to build the means to get there for our customers, step by step. At Konecranes, we call this Ecolifting™, a systematic movement towards lower CO2 per container move. Our first major step in this direction was the introduction of our all-electric Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) over ten years ago. All Konecranes factories use renewable electricity, and we already cut half the emissions from our operations in 2022 since 2019. We are also committed to halving our value chain emissions by 2030.
We invite you to join us on this journey. Your carbon footprint is as significant as our own, and it can be smaller. We work hard to help our customers reduce their carbon footprints, wherever they are. There is a difference between seeing the path ahead and walking on that path. Let’s do it together.
Before stepping on the path to Ecolifting™, wouldn’t it be nice to start from a clean slate, with container cranes delivered to you in a carbon neutral condition?
As a world first in the container handling industry, Konecranes delivers hybrid and electric RTGs to customers as carbon neutral as an option. Carbon emissions have been minimized wherever possible, and where not possible they have been compensated as an option for with re-forestation, up to the point of hand-over to the customer.
Konecranes is in a unique position to help our customers grow into to a low carbon future by providing solutions which strengthen decarbonization and advance electrification, while we decrease the emissions of our own operations and our value chain. We design our products with their complete lifecycle in mind. Most of the environmental impact of a product is defined during the product design stage. Therefore, we carefully analyze our product lifecycle phases in terms of the total carbon footprint. The lifecycle of our RTGs has three distinct phases: manufacturing and material, transport and commissioning; use phase; end-of-life.
Delivering RTGs to our customers in a carbon neutral manner concerns phase 1, which represents around 1/10 of the total CO2 load. Konecranes has worked determinedly and systematically to reduce the CO2 footprint of manufacturing, materials, transportation and commissioning. For the parts where we cannot eliminate all carbon emissions, we have compensated for it by means of a re-forestation scheme.
The usage of the equipment represents the main part of the carbon footprint of the RTG lifecycle – around 9/10. For this part Konecranes already provides many ways to reduce the carbon footprint with Ecolifting™ power options. In the end-of-life phase, the RTG steel structure can be fully recycled – this phase represents less than 1/10 of the total carbon footprint.
The Ecolifting art gallery is a rare aesthetic experience. Step on in, and see how Ecolifting can reduce the carbon footprint of your operations and increase your profitability.
We support our customers in reaching their low-carbon targets with our solutions:
We work to decarbonize our own operations:
Read more about this on our Sustainability web pages here.
