IN KEEPING WITH ITS PRINCIPLE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ITS PRODUCT, MANUFACTURING, AND SERVICE PROCESSES, TOFAŞ EMPLOYS AND DEVELOPS LEAN AND PROACTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS.

Regarding environmental protection as an important element of its social responsibility, Tofaş focuses on effectively managing and, as much as possible, on minimizing both the direct and the indirect adverse environmental impact of all aspects of its value-creation chain.

ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY POLICY

In keeping with its principle of sustainable development in its product, manufacturing, and service processes, Tofaş employs and develops lean and proactive environmental and energy management systems.

In line with this, Tofaş:

• Regards having to dispose waste of any kind as a resource loss and therefore develops methods that prevents waste from occurring in the first place;
• Constantly improves its energy performance both through energy-efficiency process design and in the conduct of its product and service procurements;
• Ensures that it has access to all the information, expertise, and economic resources that it needs to regularly review and achieve its environmental and energy-related goals and objectives;
• Assessing risks and opportunities, plans and takes sustainability-focused strategic action;
• Develops innovative product and process solutions aimed at combatting climate change;
• Believes that it is fundamentally essential to comply with the requirements of all laws and regulations to which it is subject as well as with internationally-accepted standards in its processes;
• Seeks to minimize energy and water consumption, waste generation, and water and air effluents both by educating its employees, contractors, dealers, and suppliers and by constantly improving the vehicles that it makes;
• Develops solutions for the manufacturing of vehicles and spare parts in order to make use of materials whose environmental impact is lower and whose recyclability/recoverability is greater.

Tofaş’s environmental vision is to possess a World-Class Environment Management System that makes use of proactive and efficient management tools. In order to achieve its “Zero Waste/Zero Loss” goal, the company’s maxim is “If you don’t cause pollution in the first place, then there’s nothing that you have to clean up.”

One consequence of Tofaş’s Environment & Energy Policy is that it seeks both to reduce waste at source and to recover and recycle as much as possible of any waste that may be generated. Thus for example 100% of the industrial waste resulting from its manufacturing processes is either recovered or else used as raw material and energy inputs in the cement industry, thereby helping the company to achieve its “Zero Waste Disposal” goal.

Supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy through its energy-efficiency efforts, Tofaş is also a corporate member of the Climate Platform. The hundreds of energy efficiency projects which the company has undertaken are steadily reducing the energy density of its operations.

When new investments are to be undertaken or changes are to be made in machinery and equipment, environmental-impact and energy-efficiency procedures are standardized both by initiating a Kanban (lean/just-in-time manufacturing) process and by adhering to best-available-technology (BAT) practices.

Environmental audits conducted both by authorities and by stakeholders in 2018 ascertained that Tofaş was in full compliance with all requirements.

SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING ATTITUDES

Having adopted sustainable-manufacturing principles in the conduct of its operations, Tofaş achieves natural resource use efficiency by implementing the “5R” (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover) hierarchy in all of its production processes.

In 2018 Tofaş undertook 60 new energy efficiency projects implementing WCM (World Class Manufacturing) energy management methodologies and techniques. With the inclusion of other projects that were launched in the last quarter of 2017, the total number of such projects having an impact on the company’s operations was 79 last year. Thanks to these projects, 79,935 GJ of energy were conserved and CO2 emissions were reduced by 5,383 tons.

As a result of a comprehensive 2018 survey of companies quoted on Borsa İstanbul by EIRIS, a leading global provider of environmental, social and governance research, Tofaş was rated and identified as one of 50 Turkish companies deemed to be worthy of inclusion in the BIST Sustainability Index.

In 2018 Tofaş once again submitted its responses to the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) questions. As a result of the ensuing CDP review, the company was assigned a CDO “B (Management”) performance rating. Tofaş also received a “B- (Management)” rating in the CDP Water Program.

Because of its adherence to environmental policies and strategies capable of serving as models for other agencies and organizations, Tofaş took first place in the “Environment & Sustainability” category of the İstanbul Chamber of Industry’s “Environment Awards” program. In order to keep all of its stakeholders informed about its targets on environment and sustainability issues, Tofaş transparently publishes the results of its efforts in these areas in sustainability reports and on its corporate website.

“Proactive Carbon and Energy Management in 7 Steps”, which is a component of WCM methodology, has been in active use at Tofaş since 2011. With the introduction of this management process, Tofaş began focusing its attentions on identifying aspects of energy efficiency and carbon emissions mitigation to which priority needed to be given as well as to energy-loss classification and prioritization principles. A standardized and effective method for making improvements was achieved by integrating this systematic approach into all processes ranging from new investments to modifications of existing plant resources.

GREEN PRODUCTS

Environment-focused projects such as vehicle electrification, alternative fuels, eco-friendly materials, vehicle weight reduction, and recycling take the front stage among Tofaş’s technology research activities. Some of these projects were concerned with issues whose results are expected to be incorporated into existing products or new models in the years ahead while others are longer-term in their outlook.