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Vallourec, a responsible industrial player, presents its climate policy, which is a key aspect of its Corporate Social Responsibility approach - Seite 2

Vallourec, leader in supplying tubular solutions for power plants, has developed solutions for supercritical and ultra-supercritical (USC) power plants which generate the lowest CO2 emissions compared to the average emissions of thermal power plants around the world. The tubes, offered in a very wide range of sizes and grades of premium steel, are designed to resist the toughest conditions (600°C - 280 bar). They allow an increase in power plant yield (by up to 43% for USC) and reduce their consumption of primary energies, thereby helping to reduce their CO2 emissions by 20%.

PREON® marine, an R&D pilot in offshore wind turbines Vallourec is investing in renewable energies by developing PREON® marine, a tubular solution to fix offshore wind turbines in shallow waters (< 60 meters) for a new way of producing green electricity.

GreenHouse program: exceeding the 2020 energy efficiency objective
Vallourec is committed to reducing its energy consumption and CO₂ emissions via its GreenHouse project. The objective of this program, launched in 2009, is to reduce the Group's consumption of gas and electricity by 20% by 2020 compared to the level in 2008. It is based on different initiatives: sharing good practices in all energy activities, setting up thermal checks and energy audits, and an investment program. In 2014, the Group's energy performance had improved by 15% compared to 2008, so Vallourec should indeed exceed its target of 20% by 2020.

A reduced carbon footprint: Vallourec Florestal captures carbon in Brazil
To find out more about its carbon flows in the long-term, Vallourec has led an in-depth study on the operating conditions in its forest in Brazil: 240,000 hectares of eucalyptus provide coal for the steel mills. At the end of this scientific study conducted under the aegis of the French national forestry office, covering a period of 30 years, and the first of its kind to be conducted by the profession, it can clearly be seen that, thanks to the role of the roots and the earth, the forest-steelworks system captures carbon instead of emitting it, thereby almost halving the Group's total emissions.