AGC Glass Europe

The AGC Group has an Environmental Management System (EMS) designed to deal with environmental issues on a European or even a global scale. Policies and strategies are based on information from performance indicators, research, learning and related external activities.
This management system provides support for achieving the goals of our environmental policy and managing the interaction between plants and corporate services. It enables us to identify our strengths and weaknesses, control and reduce our environmental impacts, play a pro-active role in developing towards new legislation, minimise environmental risks and costs and retain and improve social trust and customer satisfaction.
In 2008 we standardised AGC’s internal environmental auditing system, making it easier to exchange best practices within the Group. We also developed the AGC Climate Plan by means of a special “Going Green” forum, and we improved the internal and external communication concerning our environmental indicators.

Our EMS lays down the environmental policy and objectives that provide the framework for the day-to-day activities and for environmental initiatives and action programmes within the Group. It describes the environmental roles, responsibilities and organisation at plant and group level.
It further provides a framework for communication, reporting and sharing of environment-related information and technology, for monitoring, auditing and evaluation of environmental performances, for taking corrective and preventive action and for “Green Purchasing.”
Finally it includes procedures to guarantee high standards of environmental protection, compliance with existing and new (upcoming) regulation and continuous improvement of environmental performance.