Measures
Project for waste-air scrubbing
- investigation into extraction plant and filtering systems
  (effects, costs / benefits)
- installation of suitable plant
Responsibility: Manager, Environmental Group
Period: Till the next environmental audit (2002)

Measures
a) The open sample and hardening buckets are replaced with
   sealable vessels
Reponsibility: Quality and Environment
Period: 1999
b) New filling / storage hall and new collecting vessel for
   waste oil
Responsibility: Quality and Environment,
                Maintenance
Period: 1999
c) Extensions to oil tanks
        - increased height of double walls
        - leakage indicators
        - splash guards
Responsibility: Furnace Hardening Plant Management
Period: 1999
d) Installation of a waste-water shutoff valve
Responsibility: Head of Maintenance
Period: 1999
                

Measures
a) Connecting the roof drainage system to the
          "Dorneburger Mühlenbach"
b) Utilizing rainwater as cooling water in the newly built
   automatic batch furnace hardening plant
Responsibility: Head of the new production hall, 
                Quality and Environment
Period: Till the next environmental audit (2002)

Measures
Environmental hazard analysis (substitution analysis)
Responsible: Quality and Environment
Period: 1999 (present substances), 
        continuous (new orders)

Measures
a) Provision of new, clearly designated waste-sorting containers
   (paper, other waste, oil-contaminated operating material) 
b) Instruction and motivation of staff for better
   sorting of waste
c) Investigate the possibility of Green Dot containers, and
   provide these if necessary
Responsibility: Quality and Environment, all department heads,
                all staff
Period: 1999

Measures
a) Installation of a PC program for acquisitions
b) Creation of a "data form" for annual statistics
Responsibility: Acquisitions, Accounts, Quality and 
                Environment
Period: 1999