GOOD PRACTICE EXAMPLE
| Country: | Finland |  |
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| Product group: | vehicles | |
| Name of the Institution: |
Fortum Oyj |
Overview
Public company that produces, distributes and sells electricity and district heat in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Poland and Russia.
The company has a programme for procuring/leasing cars and vans. This is taken care of by the Corporate Support Services.
Specifications of the Institution
| Address: | Keilaniemi, P.O.Bax 1, FI-00048 Fortum |
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| Number of inhabitants: | |
| Contact person: | Mr. Antero Lehtonen |
| Position: | Service Manager |
| Telephone: | +358-10 452 8304 |
| Telefax: | +358-10 452 8209 |
| E-Mail: | |
| Website: | www.fortum.fi |
| Number of employees (management): |
Organisation of the procurement
The company has a policy of sustainable development. This policy is applied also in the procurement activities, where environmental and life-cycle criteria are included. There are no legal obligations in this respect.
The company has the ISO 14001 environmental management standard in use. (The company has more than 10 ISO 14001 certificates, which cover over 90% of the business activities)
The procurement process concerning cars and vans is taken care of by the Corporate Support Services Department of the company, the Service Manager being in charge of the activity.
The procurement criteria are published in a manual, which is not publicly available but distributed to the car dealers only.
Fortum leases some 600 cars for the personnel of the company in Finland, 1400 in Sweden and 130 in Norway.
Measures
The company sets emission criteria for the cars to be leased and demands the emission data from the car dealers. Based on this information, together with the mileage data from each car, the company maintains a register of annual emissions of the whole fleet. This information is then included in the annual environmental report of the company.
In the car procurement policy of Fortum safety goes hand in hand with the environmental requirements. The manual gives a detailed list of technology, tools and supplies to be provided to make the use of the car as safe as possible.
In addition, Fortum runs a training programme of economic and safe driving for those who are driving cars leased by the company for them.
Success
The total greenhouse gas emissions from the fleet were 9400 tons of CO2 equivalent in 2004. Taking the mileage and the size distribution of the cars into consideration a comparison could be made with a reference group of cars in the same categories. This comparison has not yet been made to have an estimate of the emission and cost saving impact of the procurement policy.
The EcoDriving programme pertaining to good fuel economy and safety in traffic has given good results, with the specific consumptions down by 5-10 %, in the best cases by close to 20 %.
Further publicly available info about the concrete project
Fortum works together with Motiva in a project called “Patience and Wisdom to the Roads” where information material is produced and distributed to contribute to the development of safer and more economical driving habits.
