What is Production Integrated Environmental Protection?

Production integrated environmental protection (PIUS or Cleaner Production) increases the competitiveness of companies, leads to cost reductions, efficient usage of raw materials and energy and contributes to the optimisation of operative processes. The follow up environmental protection has also led to improvements in environmental protection standards, however, considerable additional costs have also been incurred. PIUS is pursuing a different strategy which is already being partly applied in some businesses.

PIUS is focused: With lower consumption of resources, lower consumption of energy and water, reduced waste and waste water and containing fewer emissions, fit for the future and to be able to produce more cost effectively and to use the available saving potential optimally. This is why PIUS stands for economic and ecological management.
Examples of this are:

	Substitutions of environmentally unfriendly auxiliary and industrial materials,
	Application of efficient and innovative processes,
	Usage of energy saving potential i.e. heating,
	Internal circulation management of materials used,
	Valuable utilisation of unavoidable residues,
	Awareness of pre and post stages of production processes,
	Ecological product creation (Longevity, ease of repair, lower energy consumption, ease of recycling etc.),
	Usage of, as opposed to, sales of products (ecology leasing).