Recycling and Environmental Info

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Manufacturing and use
Manufacturing
ABB Drives has on Environmental Management System (EMS) which covers
manufacturing and other functions. The EMS is certified to ISO 14001:2004.
Use
The use of a drive has several positive environmental impacts, such as:
• Substantial energy savings can be reached using a drive. These savings can be even
50% in pump and fan drives. This means reduced CO
2
and NOx emissions in power
plants, due to reduced energy demand.
• Process control is improved when a drive is used for the control of the motor meaning
reduced waste.
• When a process operates in an optimal way, wear on the equipment (such as
conveyors and pumps) is reduced and life time increased. This decreases
environmental load.
• Noise is reduced (in most cases).
The drive itself does not cause any emissions while in use.