Linde Material Handling introduces life cycle engineering for all major product groups and obtains TÜV certification for methodology and life cycle assessment

Together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP), Linde Material Handling has developed a scientific methodology with which to comprehensively assess the environmental impact of its forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment over their entire product life cycle. Based on this, life cycle assessments (LCAs) have been undertaken for the company’s seven major product groups. Both the methodology and the resulting LCAs have been approved and certified by the technical inspection authority TÜV Rheinland. Dr. Jörg Schlösser, Managing Director of TÜV Rheinland LGA Products GmbH, today officially presented the TÜV certificates to Theodor Maurer, CEO of Linde Material Handling, on the occasion of the company’s World of Material Handling customer event in Mainz.

“With every new product line, we strive to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of our products,” Maurer pointed out upon receiving the certificates. “Now we have a tool at hand that helps us to pursue this goal even more efficiently and in a more targeted manner and what’s more, it has been examined by an independent institute. Furthermore, with these LCAs we can show our customers how the use of our vehicles affects their own environmental assessment.” As Dr. Schlösser emphasized: “In today’s world companies should always consider the environmental impact of their behaviour. Therefore, it is commendable that Linde Material Handling is not only aware of their responsibility for sustainability but also aims to make their numerous measures transparent by an impartial and independent certification.”

Linde Material Handling has developed a scientific methodology with which to comprehensively assess the environmental impact of its forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment over their entire product life cycle. Based on this, life cycle assessments (LCAs) have been undertaken for the company’s seven major product groups. Both the methodology and the resulting LCAs have been approved and certified by the technical inspection authority TÜV Rheinland.