The majo­ri­ty of our spec­ta­cle lens ran­ge is manu­fac­tu­red to the hig­hest envi­ron­men­tal stan­dards in Ger­ma­ny and Switz­er­land. Among other things, sta­te-of-the-art indus­tri­al was­te­wa­ter heat exch­an­gers ensu­re opti­mum heat reco­very from the pro­duc­tion was­te­wa­ter and the grin­ding chips resul­ting from pro­duc­tion are sepa­ra­ted and recy­cled.

In addi­ti­on to fas­ter avai­la­bi­li­ty, Made in Ger­ma­ny and Swiss Made also mean a signi­fi­cant mini­mi­sa­ti­on of CO2 emis­si­ons thanks to short trans­port rou­tes.

Hydro­power is one of the methods of gene­ra­ting elec­tri­ci­ty with the least impact. Sin­ce 2019, Visa­ll has alre­a­dy saved more than 32 ton­nes of CO₂ by using green elec­tri­ci­ty from hydro­power. We are also working on redu­cing our over­all ener­gy use. We have also alre­a­dy been able to redu­ce this signi­fi­cant­ly.

We natu­ral­ly use ener­gy-effi­ci­ent tech­no­lo­gy, such as new moni­tors, to achie­ve this. Some com­pa­ny vehic­les are equip­ped with hybrid tech­no­lo­gy. Sin­ce mid-2021, they and visi­tors have been rech­ar­ging at the com­pany’s own char­ging sta­ti­on with “green elec­tri­ci­ty” from the power plants on the High Rhi­ne and the River Wie­se. Tog­e­ther with the use of job bikes, this has enab­led us to fur­ther redu­ce the share of employee mobi­li­ty and busi­ness trips in our car­bon foot­print.

At Visa­ll, we reu­se unda­ma­ged used card­board boxes and ship­ping pack­a­ging to con­ser­ve resour­ces. If card­board pack­a­ging can no lon­ger be used, it does not neces­s­a­ri­ly end up as was­te­pa­per. Thanks to a card­board per­fo­ra­tor, card­board that can no lon­ger be used is shred­ded into envi­ron­men­tal­ly fri­end­ly fil­ling mate­ri­al that replaces pla­s­tic pack­a­ging mate­ri­als such as bubble wrap or pack­a­ging chips.

A few years ago, we star­ted sen­ding cre­dit notes by email only ins­tead of put­ting them in an enve­lo­pe. We also swit­ched to sen­ding invoices by email. The increased con­ver­si­on of bro­chu­res and fly­ers to digi­tal out­put for­mats and the Visa­ll online orde­ring ser­vice save lar­ge quan­ti­ties of paper, inclu­ding the raw mate­ri­als wood and water requi­red and the CO₂ emis­si­ons gene­ra­ted by their dis­patch.

As we can­not com­ple­te­ly do wit­hout print publi­ca­ti­ons, we are also endea­vou­ring to act as sus­tain­ab­ly as pos­si­ble in this area. The Visa­ll cata­lo­gue has been prin­ted on recy­cled paper for many years, as have all bro­chu­res and fly­ers, most of which are FSC-cer­ti­fied.

Back in mid-2016, we reor­ga­nis­ed our logi­stics in order to send our par­cels, espe­ci­al­ly tho­se for the grin­ding ser­vice, in a CO₂-neu­tral way. Our ship­ping deli­veries have also been cli­ma­te-neu­tral for seve­ral years. In both cases, the resul­ting trans­port emis­si­ons are off­set by the respec­ti­ve ser­vice pro­vi­der by inves­t­ing in cli­ma­te pro­tec­tion pro­jects.