Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has become the first aircraft maintenance and overhaul firm to win certification under the European Union's (EU) ecology-audit regulations.
Certification is voluntary, but LHT says that it differentiates the firm from its competitors, and provides "a systematic view of the environmental impact of our activities".
For the audit, the company had to satisfy the prerequisites of having an environmental-impact management system meeting European standards, and having adopted short- and long-term environmental protection goals.
According to LHT chairman Wolfgang Mayrhuber, the company has now made a "significant contribution" to environmental protection, having stopped using chlorinated hydrocarbons, and also having eliminated chloro-fluorocarbons from its aircraft maintenance and overhaul operations at the end of 1996.
Source: Flight International
