FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS is a Climate Neutral Company

Com­mit­ted to a sus­tain­able and a greener future, we, at FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS, are proud to be cer­ti­fied as a carbon neutral orga­ni­za­tion.

At FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS, we have been driven by our passion as sci­en­tists and engi­neers for decades. We have forged and taught the concept of sim­u­la­tion-driven design and put our passion to work when devel­op­ing CAESES. With our software system CAESES we enable engi­neers from all fields of appli­ca­tions to find truly optimal designs that lead to extended product lifetime, superior per­for­mance, and maximum effi­ciency, helping our cus­tomers to reduce energy con­sump­tion and emis­sions. Each ton of CO₂ that is not emitted helps to reduce mankind’s envi­ron­men­tal foot­print. And we are more than happy to be part of the effort of making our world greener. 

In 2020, 10 % of all larger com­mer­cial vessels in oper­a­tion have already been opti­mized with CAESES.
The annual reduc­tions in CO₂ emis­sions sum up to more than 1 million tons, con­sid­er­ing the maritime industry only.

For two decades, we at FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS, have taken active part in inter­na­tional research and devel­op­ment projects to improve and promote our sim­u­la­tion-driven design approach for opti­mized and sus­tain­able designs among the global sci­en­tific society. Via academic teaching, pub­li­ca­tions and pre­sen­ta­tions we promote CAESES as the tool and sim­u­la­tion-driven design as the concept we have found as a truly scalable and replic­a­ble means to enable change and guide us towards a more sus­tain­able and resilient future.

Becoming a Climate Neutral Company

While focusing on reducing green­house gas emis­sions by sup­port­ing our cus­tomers and taking part in R&D projects, we are also nat­u­rally ded­i­cated to keeping our own envi­ron­men­tal foot­print to a minimum and avoiding CO₂ emission with our company business activities.

We purchase 100 % renew­able energy for our office facil­i­ties, which avoids annual emis­sions of more than 11 tons of carbon dioxide. The office location was chosen to be within walking distance of a con­ve­nient railway station, in order to encour­age our employ­ees to commute via public trans­port from the nearby capital. Business trips are kept to a minimum and not just since Covid-19 times, employ­ees as well as cus­tomers, are encour­aged to make use of virtual meetings and respon­si­ble, effec­tive means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion replac­ing face to face meetings where possible. 

Within Germany and its neigh­bor­ing coun­tries trains are used as primary means of trans­porta­tion. Paper usage and waste pro­duc­tion are kept to a minimum and a strict recy­cling policy is promoted among all staff members. Unused com­put­ers, lights and other devices are turned off whenever possible and all team members are encour­aged to work from home regularly. 

As part of our com­mit­ment to envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­ity, we offset 50 tons of unavoid­able CO₂ emis­sions result­ing from our business activ­i­ties through an invest­ment in the Kinnaur hydropower project in India. Located on the Satluj River between the com­mu­ni­ties of Karcham and Wangtoo in Kinnaur District, the project con­sti­tutes a run-of-river hydropower plant. It will use the natural flow of Satluj to generate elec­tric­ity with a total installed capacity of 1.000 MW, con­tribut­ing to a cleaner energy supply in a region which is dom­i­nated by coal-fired plants.

Among our staff, a major moti­va­tion to work at FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS is to con­tribute to some­thing mean­ing­ful with a true and notable impact: towards achiev­ing lower emis­sions and higher energy effi­ciency. Climate change aware­ness is not only dis­cussed reg­u­larly in team meetings, but also the main reason for our cus­tomers to intro­duce and utilize CAESES, as it can be directly trans­lated into improved quality of their products with regard to energy effi­ciency and sustainability.