For a better quality of life

Vaisala takes environmental matters to heart and attends to them with care. Vaisala wants to be involved in establishing a sound foundation for better quality living, environmental protection, safety and productivity.

Positive environmental aspects for customers

Vaisala's environmental measurement products and systems provide the company's customers with a means of favorably influencing their environment.

Due to global climate change, different weather phenomena are today observed and measured more extensively and accurately than ever before. Vaisala's environmental measurement equipment and weather observation systems are in use the world over. Vaisala brings to this task the best available technology (BAT) in the field.

Empowered by Vaisala's environmental measurement products, customers can reduce the environmental load from energy consumption in buildings and a wide range of industrial processes.

The Vaisala measurement instruments used in industry improve product quality and production process efficiency, optimize energy consumption, and enhance the safety and well-being of people. In many manufacturing processes, it is of utmost importance to accurately measure and control humidity, so that product quality can be kept high and energy consumption low.

Carbon dioxide content is a good indicator of indoor air quality and ventilation efficiency. Indoor air can be kept fresh without wasting energy if ventilation is controlled with carbon dioxide measurement instruments. Correspondingly, indoor air temperature is controlled with temperature meters and humidity with humidity meters.

The consumption of chemicals and the environmental load caused by them can also be reduced by optimizing the volume and use of chemicals allocated for different purposes.

Vaisala a signatory in voluntary energy efficiency agreement

Vaisala has signed up to the voluntary energy efficiency agreement of the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries. The agreement aims to encourage better energy efficiency and cost savings, and to counter climate change. It offers Vaisala information and a framework to support the company's actions.

The technology industry action program incorporated in the energy efficiency agreement is challenging, but useful, for any increase in the efficiency of energy use creates outright savings. At the initial stage, companies analyze energy consumption and start thinking about where savings can be achieved.

Environmental collaboration in 2007

Vaisala studied the environmental effects of its measurement devices by means of lifecycle analyses in a collaboration project entitled ELE-DFE together with the ABB and Helvar companies and the Tampere University of Technology. TAMLINK and TEKES, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, also participated in the project. The results of lifecycle analyses are harnessed in the design of new products. The development work aims at minimizing the environmental effects of products throughout their lifecycles.

Vaisala participated in the activities of the environmental committee of the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries. The committee monitors legislation and promotes collaboration between the authorities, business entities and environmental experts.

Vaisala complies with generally accepted international standards and requirements. The Group employs a certified environmental system based on the SFS-EN ISO 14001 standard. The system covers all of the Vaisala sites and products. Waste management and materials recycling is carried out efficiently at production plants and other sites. Inspecta Oy has acted as Vaisala's partner in the certification.