Photobioreactor growing microalgae in SCHOTT glass tubes

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Illustration of SCHOTT Sustrainability Team starting an expedition towards more sustainability.

Expedition Sustainability

For SCHOTT, sustainability is more than just a trend – it's a significant and extraordinary journey. For continued success in the market, the company focuses on ecological, economic, and social responsibility in harmony – while making the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) an integral part of its global sustainability agenda.

David Klein, Sustainability Manager at SCHOTT

By David Klein

9 min read

Recreating the sun

Recreating the Sun

Laser fusion technology has brought the biggest phenomenon from space to a laboratory on Earth. In their efforts to recreate the sun’s power source, scientists recently achieved ignition – a breakthrough that’s being compared to the Wright brothers’ first flight. Now the race is on to commercialize fusion into a clean, infinite, carbon-free energy source. Read more to learn where optics from SCHOTT might help.

Young people involved in Fridays for Future interview SCHOTT CEO Dr. Heinricht

"Working together for more climate protection"

Climate protection is a topic that concerns everyone. But the young generation in particular is increasingly calling for business and politics to act faster to stop climate change. Romy Hahn (20) and Emma Derix (20) are getting involved and taking to the streets for more climate protection. They discuss climate protection, demands on politicians and the challenges of making energy-intensive glass production CO2-neutral with CEO Dr. Frank Heinricht.

SCHOTT in Mainz climate neutral

Taking on the challenge of a lifetime

Transforming the economy towards carbon neutrality is inevitable. Nevertheless, it will be a long, challenging road requiring entrepreneurial courage and stamina.

Matthias Kaffenberger in the H2 control station at the SCHOTT facility in Mainz"

Powering our way to the future

There’s a long tradition of pioneering work at SCHOTT, but the company also relies on courage, curiosity, and passion for its first large-scale implementation of hydrogen in glass production. We spoke to the hydrogen experts leading this groundbreaking project.

Looking through glass to a more sustainable world with specialty glass

A multifaceted sustainability champion

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Individuals and companies are trying to reduce their carbon footprint, live and act more sustainably. Specialty glass is helping: from smart windows to efficient induction cooking to next-generation batteries - glass is the driving force behind numerous developments for the future. An overview of climate-friendly applications for this versatile material.

Algalif's photobioreators made of SCHOTT glass tubing, illuminated by blue light.

Superfood from the tube aquarium

With sustainable farming and the renunciation of animal products becoming important aspects of personal health and wellbeing, there is a rising interest in vitamin-rich, ecologically friendly “superfoods” like microalgae. Cultivated in glass tubes made of specialty glass, experts believe this single-celled organism could be the future of human health and wellbeing.

Jocelyn Jiang and Dr. Folker Steden stand on the shore of a lake and look at the hippos in water

Mirroring Nature’s Most Powerful Protection

What does amber pharmaceutical glass tubing have in common with hippos from Asia? During their visit to the Shanghai Wild Animal Park, two specialty glass experts make an unusual discovery.

Michael Hahn arrives at SCHOTT in Mainz by bike, wearing a bright green jacket

Under power

At SCHOTT's headquarters in Mainz, Germany, a team of experts has spent the past two years working on a sustainable future for the glass industry. Their mission? The electrification of the melting process. The two development projects, PROSPECT and PLANET1, intend to lay the foundation using green electricity.

Charger connected to an electric car, charging it

Solving the e-mobility puzzle

Higher driving range, lower prices, improved safety, and ever-growing charging speeds: Solid-state batteries could provide the lift electric cars need to increase mass-market adoption. Go inside a vacuum-sealed lab for a look at groundbreaking material research for next-gen EV batteries in the making.

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