ThyssenKrupp Waupaca’s facilities
have implemented Environmental Management
Systems (EMS), which are designed
to guide our company through tightening
environmental regulations and environmental
improvements. Our EMS is based on
the internationally recognized ISO
14001 standard. The cornerstone of
our EMS is the statement of principles
found in our Environmental Policy
below. The cornerstone of our EMS is the statement of principles
found in our EHS Policy.
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 Our
philosophy is to use state of the
art pollution control equipment to
eliminate potential air pollution,
and to seek new ways to continually
reduce our air emissions. The air
pollution control systems we install
at our facilities are considered as
“best available” or BACT
by the EPA and state agencies. Pictured
to the right is a rendering of the
new bag house air pollution control
system that is being installed on
the iron melting cupola at Plant 1.
Similar systems are already in operation
at Plant 2, Plant 5 and Plant 6.
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|  Our EHS Policy also demands the wise use of resources including energy. This photo shows
heat recovery equipment recently installed
at Plant 2. Waste heat from the cupola
melting operation is captured and
used for space heating during the
winter. This project will save millions
of cubic feet of natural gas each
heating season, conserving our resources
and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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|  ThyssenKrupp
Waupaca’s goal is to reuse our
sands and slag in environmentally
appropriate manners to the fullest
extent possible. This will save landfill
space and conserve other mineral resources
that would need to be mined if foundry
sands and slag were not used. Over
the past five years we have been successful
in developing alternate reuse markets
for our sands and slag. The before
and after photos show a sand and gravel
pit in Waupaca County that was successfully
reclaimed using 80,000 tons of foundry
sand.
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