"Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, and companies are playing an important pioneering role in this," says Jörg Pohl, Managing Director at baier & michels (b&m), adding: "Running a business sustainably is becoming a social obligation that our parent company, the Würth Group, is meeting with ambitious targets. We at b&m support this path and at the same time make our contribution, which includes ecological approaches towards electricity consumption."

To this end, baier & michels is increasingly focusing on the use of solar cells and the conversion of sunlight into electrical energy at its corporate headquarters in Ober-Ramstadt in southern Hessen. Since March 2019, a photovoltaic (PV) system has been in operation on the roof of one of the factory halls; the 757 modules cover an area of around 1,400 m²; under ideal solar conditions, they can generate 103,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of solar power per year. « With the solar intensity in Ober-Ramstadt, we currently produce more than 80,000 kWh, which corresponds to about twelve percent of our electricity consumption, » explains Steffen Redlingshöfer, Head of Quality and responsible for the topic of environment, health and safety at b&m.

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