This is how GREEN the BMW iFACTORY is.

Sustainable production based on innovative thinking: the GREEN focus of the BMW iFACTORY includes using state-of-the-art technologies – resource-optimised and circular.

We're driving the transformation of the automotive industry and are acutely aware of our responsibility. That is why we've set ourselves ambitious goals: a new, holistic way of thinking is needed.?

The BMW iFACTORY is one significant step in that direction, already redefining automotive production with its three LEAN, GREEN and DIGITAL pillars.?

LEAN stands for efficiency, precision and maximum flexibility. GREEN means sustainable, circular, resource-optimised. DIGITAL involves making use of artificial intelligence to become faster, more precise and more transparent. The BMW iFACTORY represents a global, integrative approach that is implemented in every plant worldwide.?

GREEN: The new Debrecen plant sets standards

Our high standards are underlined by our future plant in Debrecen, Hungary, where the all-electric Neue Klasse will be built from 2025. It marks the next step towards a sustainable future and will dispense entirely with using fossil fuels in its production processes. A large proportion of the electricity required is to be produced on the factory site itself, while the rest is to be fully supplied by renewable energy sources, and mostly regional.?

“Environmental, economic and social responsibility are inseparable,” says BMW AG Board Member for Production Milan Nedeljkovi?. “We strive to achieve all three not only in the product itself but along the entire value chain.”

Individual solutions for further development.

Once again, we're setting ecological benchmarks and making a fundamental contribution to a sustainable future. Today, all of our locations worldwide already source exclusively green electricity and produce according to circular economy principles.?A 360-degree approach that not only focuses?on increasing?efficiency and digitalisation, but at the same time delivers highly individual solutions for our own plants.?“Our principle is “avoid, then reduce, then substitute” to conserve resources: Each of our plants is developing its own individual green footprint and making optimal use of local opportunities and potential,” explains Milan Nedeljkovi?.

Because acting sustainably also means acting regionally for us. Only in this way can a measure-driven overall optimum be achieved. We work together with partners to achieve this and draws on our many years of expertise. This means not only do we continue to develop, but so does the entire region around a site.

The optimum, in consideration of local conditions.

We're already putting this into practice today with the BMW iFACTORY.?Heat at?our plant?in Steyr, Austria, is supplied by district heating from biomass.?Energy consumption is measured in real-time to be able to react and optimise immediately. At our plant in Leipzig, production is supported by wind turbines – hydrogen is used to power around 130 floor conveyors. Our Leipzig plant is also the first automotive plant in the world to pilot a newly developed burner technology in its paint shop that can also use hydrogen. In Mexico, the San Luis Potosi site generates 100 per cent CO2-free electrical energy through solar panels. In Munich, on the other hand, electricity for production is generated by hydroelectric power from the rivers Lech and Isar.

So GREEN is not just an off-the-shelf solution for the BMW iFACTORY. We look for the sustainable optimum, taking into account the special features of the locations, drawing on skills and experience in our network and incorporating current technical developments – for a sustainable future.?