Evonik Industries AG, a leading manufacturer of specialty chemicals, has reduced its CO2 emissions by 71 tonnes a year thanks to a new logistics concept. This has been achieved by multimodal container transports, which the Munich forwarding company Robert Kukla has developed and has been implementing since 2018. Together with the emissions, also costs were significantly reduced, as the new solution saves more than 28,000 liters of fuel per year.
“Evonik Industries is another example of how companies with intelligent intermodal concepts can save the environment and reduce their logistics costs at the same time,” says Kukla’s Managing Director Knut Sander. His company was able to win Evonik Industries as a customer in 2015. At that time, the South German forwarding company convinced with a concept for multimodal transports between Krefeld and Alicante, which saved 933 tonnes of CO2.
Evonik is a world leader in specialty chemicals. Strategic growth segments of the group are Specialty Additives, Animal Nutrition, Smart Materials and Health & Care. In 2018, Evonik, with around 36,000 employees, achieved sales of EUR 15 billion and an operating result (adjusted EBITDA) of EUR 2.6 billion.
Robert Kukla GmbH Internationale Spedition specialises in multimodal and intermodal transport, tank transport and truck transport worldwide and has extensive experience in warehousing logistics. The Munich-based logistics provider has branches in Hamburg, Berlin, Milan, Breda, Stockholm, Tunis, Bilbao and London. Kukla exists since 1941, works worldwide with a dense network of high-performance cooperation partners and employs around 150 people at all locations.
