Sustainability

The VDL Translift products offer great opportunities for a better living environment. With a view to contributing to a more sustainable world in the future we also participate in projects and applications of alternative fuels, such as solar energy, natural gas and electric-hybrid drive. 

VDL Translift conducts an active, ISO-certified environmental policy. For instance, the possible reuse or recycling of the materials used is taken into account both during the development of our products and during production and maintenance work. In this way the waste flows are reduced and the use of energy and raw materials is optimized. Our priority is to develop innovative collection and transport equipment to greatly optimize both working conditions and environmental impact.

VDL Translift strives to continuously anticipate the legal and social obligations with regard to the environment and saftey, and this without losing sight of the business objectives. We also actively promote this. To support this, an environmental management system has been set up, based on ISO 14001, which is consistent with the Occupational Health and Safety policy.

We can describe our environmental objectives as follows:

• Comply with all applicable laws and regulations 
• To take the reuse or recycling of the used materials into account as much as possible 
• Purchasing off less environmentally harmful materials
• Reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions
• Careful separation of hazardous and industrial waste
• Integrate our environmental policy into the design procedure, in which the environment is treated in a sustainable way 
• Striving for continuous improvement
• Adopt measeres for our environmental policy in our environmental handbook.

The objectives formulated in this environmental policy have been given concrete form in the processes and methods used within VDL Translift and at least meet the requirements of the then applicable NEN-EN-ISO.

The CO2 emissions of VDL Translift in Dronten have been included as a KPI in our main objectives with the target being adjusted slightly more sharply each year. This has resulted in CO2 emissions falling significantly every year since 2019.

VDL Translift guarantees that developments in environmental legislation and regulations, points for attention and environmental issues that are important for the organization, will be followed, evaluated and properly introduced into the environmental management system. All our employees are therefore expected to cooperate in the implementation of this environmental policy and to ensure proper communication in this area to achieve this goal. To prevent environmental pollution and to achieve a system of constant improvement, an annual Environmental Plan will be drawn up.

M.J.W. van der Mast, director VDL Translift bv