The planning and setting up of the Roitham site was specifically oriented to sustainability. The site's clever interplay of architecture and building systems helps conserve resources: Around 1.5 million kWh are saved annually relative to standard solutions.

Miba was awarded the Upper Austrian environmental award Energie Star 2008 for a project which proves that business interests and sustainability can complement each other. The Laakirchen site installed a heating and cooling system which has optimized the use of resources considerably. The ingenious system leads to energy savings equivalent to the annual consumption of 600 households. The savings achieved in this way could supply 1,500 single-family homes with water for a year, and 85 homes with the energy needed for heating. The system functions as a model example, and the process or parts of it could be applied to many industrial and commercial operations.

At Miba, environmental protection and sustainability are innovation factors. This is illustrated by an initiative at our Vorchdorf site. As the first company in Austria, we have succeeded in implementing a chemical-free process for the microbiological treatment of the cooling system with ultrasonic technology. With this innovative process, the Vorchdorf plant now cleans its cooling water with ultrasound instead of using environmentally-damaging biocide. In this way, the deployment of 1.6 metric tons of the chemical can be avoided each year. At the same time, the process increases the efficiency of the cooling system by eight percent and cuts the energy consumption by an annual 350,000 kWh. That is equivalent to the annual consumption of 70 households. In recognition of this work, the Vorchdorf site received the Upper Austrian Regional Government Prize for the Environment and Nature.