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09.05.2019
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Bosch invests billions in climate action and air quality and will be carbon neutral world-wide by 2020
Sven Kahn
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Annual press conference 2019: Prof. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer
2018 sales by business sector
2018 sales by region
Global headcount up by 7,700 in 2018, to 410,000 associates
Key to sustainable future mobility is automated and electrified driving
Bosch: associates at work
Dr. Volkmar Denner
Diesel retains advantage with regard to fuel consumption and environmental impact
Using artificial intelligence to further refine internal- combustion engines
Sustainable mobility: Bosch and Daimler offer automated driving service
Flexible air pollutant monitoring system
Bosch to cooperate in large-scale production of fuel cells for trucks and cars
Company mobility management: Better air quality in conurbationsCompany mobility management: Better air quality in conurbations
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Annual press conference 2019: Board of Management of Robert Bosch GmbH
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Highlights of the 2018 business year
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Vision of near-zero pollution from traffic – looking beyond the car’s hood to achieve clean air
Telecommuting at Bosch
Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer
Leadership in electromobility mass market
Ridesharing app SPLT
Electromobility: 14 million vehicles by end of 2022
Bosch to cooperate in large-scale production of fuel cells for trucks and cars
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
The levers for achieving CO₂ neutrality at Bosch
Renningen research campus: green roofs, photovoltaic systems – and carbon neutrality
The energy-efficient, self-learning plant in Homburg
Actions to improve energy efficiency
“Energieerlebniswelt” in Bosch’s Feuerbach plant
CO₂ emissions by region
CO₂-neutral electricity through wind power
The research campus in Renningen
Annual press conference 2019: Prof. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer
Prof. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, deputy chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH, presents the financial statements for 2018 at Bosch’s R&D center in Renningen on May 09, 2019: “Despite the falloff in automotive production and substantial upfront investments for the future, we again managed to increase our result from operations.”
2018 sales by business sector
Bosch increased its sales revenue to a record 78.5 billion euros in 2018. The Mobility Solutions business sector increased its sales by 3.5 percent (5.8 percent after adjusting for exchange- rate effects) to 47.6 billion euros. Consumer Goods achieved sales of 17.8 billion euros. Adjusting for exchange-rate effects turns this 3.1 percent fall into a sales increase of 0.7 percent. Industrial Technology achieved sales of 7.4 billion euros, which equates to an increase of 8.8 percent, or 11.7 percent after adjusting for exchange-rate effects. In the Energy and Building Technology business sector, sales increased by 2.4 percent to 5.6 billion euros. After adjusting for exchange-rate effects, this was equivalent to 5.1 percent growth.
2018 sales by region
Bosch increased its sales revenue to a record 78.5 billion euros in 2018. In Europe, sales revenue increased by 3.3 percent (4.8 percent after adjusting for exchange-rate effects) to 41.4 billion euros. In North America, sales totaled 12.3 billion euros. After adjusting for exchange-rate effects, this 2.7 percent rise equates to an increase of 7.4 percent. Sales in South America grew by 11.6 percent to 1.4 billion euros after adjusting for exchange-rate effects. Nominally, they declined by 6.2 percent. Sales in Asia Pacific and Africa grew by 3.7 percent to 23.4 billion euros after adjusting for exchange-rate effects. Nominal growth was 0.7 percent.
Global headcount up by 7,700 in 2018, to 410,000 associates
As of December 31, 2018, the Bosch Group employed some 410,000 associates worldwide. That is around 7,700 more people than in the previous year. The largest increases in headcount took place in Europe and Asia Pacific. In Germany, the number of associates increased by around 1,700. Bosch now employs just under 70,000 associates in research and development, some 4,000 more than in the previous year. 27,000 associates are software and IT experts.
Key to sustainable future mobility is automated and electrified driving
Bosch is delivering progress in automated and electrified driving. The supplier of technology and services is thus making an important contribution to sustainable mobility. According to the research firm KE Consult, automated driving can reduce fuel consumption by over 30 percent. More than 5,000 Bosch engineers are now working on automated driving, almost twice as many as two years ago. Bosch also expects electric vehicles to play a major part in improving air quality in cities. Bosch powertrain components already feature in over a million electric cars around the world. By the end of 2022, this number is set to rise to 14 million.
Bosch: associates at work
Under the title “inspiring working conditions,” Bosch is developing a number of concepts for the workplace of the future. In field tests, Bosch is trying out new work models and workplace designs. It is one of the first companies to consider the new requirements being made of leadership and collaboration. Office design is also a key contributing factor to working climate. On the one hand, it should offer peace and quiet. On the other, it should foster exchange and collaboration. Telecommuting makes it easier for associates to decide where they can work best. There are many possibilities – at lecterns or in lounge zones in the office, or equally at a desk at home. Shown here: associates at work.
Dr. Volkmar Denner
Chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH
Diesel retains advantage with regard to fuel consumption and environmental impact
Bosch engineers have made a decisive breakthrough in diesel technology. A combination of advanced fuel-injection technology, a newly developed air management system, and intelligent temperature management has made record readings of 13 mg NOx per kilometer possible. Some 3,500 associates in the company’s exhaust-gas treatment and exhaust sensors units generated sales of 2.3 billion euros in 2018. This figure is set to reach 3 billion euros by 2025.
Using artificial intelligence to further refine internal- combustion engines
The company forecasts that roughly 75 percent of all new cars and light commercial vehicles will still be powered by an internal-combustion engine in 2030. In view of this, Bosch is continuing to invest considerable sums in optimizing gasoline and diesel engines. The company is also using artificial intelligence to further develop internal- combustion engines. As an example, Bosch is using AI to predictively control exhaust-gas treatment according to patterns drawn from individuals’ driving behavior.
Sustainable mobility: Bosch and Daimler offer automated driving service
Automated driving will also play a part in improving air quality. More than 5,000 Bosch engineers are now working on automated driving, almost twice as many as two years ago. By 2022, Bosch plans to have invested around 4 billion euros in automation and thus in sustainable mobility. Together with Daimler, Bosch plans to pilot automated ridesharing services in the U.S. city of San Jose, California.
Flexible air pollutant monitoring system
To better understand the relationship between different emissions sources and the environment, Bosch has developed a new air-pollution measurement system. The compact boxes can be flexibly deployed around urban areas, for example mounted on streetlights or bus shelters. They measure particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide as well as temperature, pressure, and humidity in real time.
Bosch to cooperate in large-scale production of fuel cells for trucks and cars
Bosch is entering the market for mobile fuel cells and preparing for the breakthrough of this technology for trucks and cars. One crucial component here is the stack. As the core of the fuel cell, is converts hydrogen into electrical energy.
Company mobility management: Better air quality in conurbationsCompany mobility management: Better air quality in conurbations
The goal of Bosch’s company mobility management scheme is to reduce the traffic, and thus the emissions, for which Bosch associates themselves are responsible, particularly in conurbations. The measures taken range from shuttle buses in large cities to telecommuting agreements and the leasing of bicycles and pedelecs. Many associates can already make use of the carpooling platform SPLT, an app-based service designed to make forming rideshares easier.
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Bosch is to be fully climate-neutral as early as next year. Its over 400 locations worldwide, and their engineering, manufacturing, and administrative facilities, will no longer leave a carbon footprint.
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Bosch is to be fully climate-neutral as early as next year. Its over 400 locations worldwide, and their engineering, manufacturing, and administrative facilities, will no longer leave a carbon footprint.
Annual press conference 2019: Board of Management of Robert Bosch GmbH
Today Bosch presented it’s corporate key figures for financial 2018 and the first months of 2019 at the Bosch R&D center in Renningen. The Board of Management, left to right: Dr. Markus Heyn, Dr. Dirk Hoheisel, Dr. Stefan Hartung, Christoph Kübel, Dr. Volkmar Denner (chairman), Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer (deputy chairman), Dr.-Ing. Michael Bolle, Rolf Najork, Uwe Raschke, Dr. Christian Fischer
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Bosch is to be fully climate-neutral as early as next year. Its over 400 locations worldwide, and their engineering, manufacturing, and administrative facilities, will no longer leave a carbon footprint. “We see climate action as our responsibility, and believe we have to act now,” says Dr. Volkmar Denner, chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH.
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Bosch is to be fully climate-neutral as early as next year. Its over 400 locations worldwide, and their engineering, manufacturing, and administrative facilities, will no longer leave a carbon footprint. “We see climate action as our responsibility, and believe we have to act now,” says Dr. Volkmar Denner, chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH.
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Bosch is to be fully climate-neutral as early as next year. Its over 400 locations worldwide, and their engineering, manufacturing, and administrative facilities, will no longer leave a carbon footprint. Image left to right: Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer (deputy chairman), Dr. Volkmar Denner (chairman).
Highlights of the 2018 business year
Bosch increased its sales revenue to a record 78.5 billion euros in 2018. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) from operations reached 5.5 billion euros. Mobility Solutions generated 47.6 billion euros, making it the business sector with the highest sales. Bosch created almost 8,000 new jobs worldwide in 2018, more than half of them in research and development. Bosch employs some 68,700 R&D associates worldwide. As of December 31, 2018, the Bosch Group employed some 410,000 associates in total.
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Bosch is to be fully climate-neutral as early as next year. Its over 400 locations worldwide, and their engineering, manufacturing, and administrative facilities, will no longer leave a carbon footprint.
Vision of near-zero pollution from traffic – looking beyond the car’s hood to achieve clean air
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 90 percent of the world’s population breathe toxic air. In view of this, Bosch has set itself ambitious aim of reducing air pollution from traffic to virtually zero. Among its activities to achieve this is a dedicated project based on three pillars: developing low-pollutant powertrain technologies, working with municipal governments on projects to maintain steady traffic flows, and running a company mobility management system at its own locations.
Telecommuting at Bosch
Telecommuting makes it easier for Bosch associates to decide where they can work best. There are many possibilities – at lecterns or in lounge zones in the office, or at a desk at home. When they have an appointment at another location, they can also stay and continue working there afterwards. This helps to reduce rush-hour traffic. Shown here: associates at work.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer
Deputy Chairman, Board of Management Robert Bosch GmbH
Leadership in electromobility mass market
Bosch aims to lead the mass market for electromobility. By 2025, the aim is to increase sales in this area tenfold, to a total of 5 billion euros. In 2018, the technology and services company acquired 30 electromobility projects worth several billion euros.
Ridesharing app SPLT
SPLT operates a platform that allows companies, universities, and municipal authorities to offer their workforces ridesharing services. SPLT is part of Bosch’s company mobility management scheme. Its goal is to reduce the traffic, and thus the emissions, for which Bosch associates themselves are responsible, particularly in conurbations.
Electromobility: 14 million vehicles by end of 2022
Small vans are a common sight around the globe. In Germany alone, approximately three-fourths of all commercial vehicles registered belong to this class, and that number is on the rise. Bosch powertrain components already feature in over a million electric cars around the world. By the end of 2022, this number is set to rise to 14 million. To date, the company has carried out powertrain projects for 50 electric vehicle platforms. 2018 alone saw 30 newly acquired projects.
Bosch to cooperate in large-scale production of fuel cells for trucks and cars
Bosch has a lot of expertise in fuel-cell technology. The supplier of technology and services sees itself as a systems supplier, and already has a broad portfolio of components for fuel cells in trucks and cars.
Annual press conference 2019: Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
Bosch is to be fully climate-neutral as early as next year. Its over 400 locations worldwide, and their engineering, manufacturing, and administrative facilities, will no longer leave a carbon footprint.
The levers for achieving CO₂ neutrality at Bosch
In a bid to swiftly achieve carbon neutrality, Bosch will buy more green electricity in the near term and compensate for unavoidable CO₂ emissions with carbon offsets. In the years to 2030, the company will gradually increase the share of renewable energy in the power that it generates and buys, and will invest a billion euros to boost its locations’ energy efficiency.
Renningen research campus: green roofs, photovoltaic systems – and carbon neutrality
Renningen is an all-rounder: electricity demand is covered by green power, and the 460 photovoltaic modules installed on the roofs of buildings generate electricity for the campus’s own use. The completely green roofs means that Bosch requires 20 to 30 percent less energy to air-condition the buildings. The location has its own water treatment plant, which saves some 20,000 cubic meters of drinking water a year.
The energy-efficient, self-learning plant in Homburg
At the Bosch location in Homburg, Germany, associates can track, control, and optimize each individual machine’s power consumption. An energy management platform developed by Bosch uses data that has been collected from machinery at some 10,000 measuring points. As a result of this, the location has saved more than 23,000 metric tons of CO₂ since 2007.
Actions to improve energy efficiency
By 2030, the company plans to save additional energy amounting to some 1.7 terawatt hours per year. This is more than one-fifth of its current annual consumption, and comparable to the amount of electricity consumed by private households in Cologne. Bosch has been vigorously pursuing environmental management practices for years. Connected manufacturing has also become a key efficiency driver: Bosch uses its proprietary energy platform, a cloud-based software solution that can track and control every single machine’s power consumption.
“Energieerlebniswelt” in Bosch’s Feuerbach plant
The plant in Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany, is contributing to company-wide energy efficiency. With training sessions in its “Energieerlebniswelt” (energy experience world), a local team focuses on energy monitoring and increasing awareness among the workforce.
CO₂ emissions by region
Industrial enterprises such as Bosch can make a significant contribution to the drive for global climate neutrality. According to the International Energy Agency, manufacturing accounts for around 32 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. As it stands, Bosch emits around 3.3 million metric tons of carbon per year.
CO₂-neutral electricity through wind power
In Mexico, Bosch is opting for the wind. Power sourced exclusively from the Dominica wind farm in the state of San Luis Potosí covers more than 80 percent of the energy requirements of all Bosch locations in the country. In Mexico, Bosch was able to save 56,000 metric tons of CO₂ in 2018 by switching to predominantly renewable energies.
The research campus in Renningen
A completely new work environment for creative minds: with its Renningen research campus, Bosch wants to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, and in this way further enhance its innovative strength. One further aim is to create a university campus atmosphere. At the new center for research and advance engineering on the outskirts of Stuttgart, some 1,700 creative minds are doing applied industrial research. The research campus, whose motto is “Connected for millions of ideas,” is the hub of Bosch’s global research and development network.
Featuring the central theme #SmartMoves, Volkmar Denner shows how Bosch is strategically orienting itself for the Future and helping improve people’s lives. Let’s move!
This year, Bosch releases two publications regarding its sustainability activities: for the first time, the new factbook presents a comprehensive sustainability reporting according to the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative and gives a holistic overview of Bosch’s sustainability performance. It is accompanied by our well established magazine, from now on named spotlights, which puts an emphasis on outstanding ideas and examples from business units and regions.
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 429,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2023). The company generated sales of 91.6 billion euros in 2023. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. With its business activities, the company aims to use technology to help shape universal trends such as automation, electrification, digitalization, connectivity, and an orientation to sustainability. In this context, Bosch’s broad diversification across regions and industries strengthens its innovativeness and robustness. Bosch uses its proven expertise in sensor technology, software, and services to offer customers cross-domain solutions from a single source. It also applies its expertise in connectivity and artificial intelligence in order to develop and manufacture user-friendly, sustainable products. With technology that is “Invented for life,” Bosch wants to help improve quality of life and conserve natural resources. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 470 subsidiary and regional companies in over 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. Bosch’s innovative strength is key to the company’s further development. At 136 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 90,000 associates in research and development, of which nearly 48,000 are software engineers.
The company was set up in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861–1942) as “Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering.” The special ownership structure of Robert Bosch GmbH guarantees the entrepreneurial freedom of the Bosch Group, making it possible for the company to plan over the long term and to undertake significant upfront investments in the safeguarding of its future. Ninety-four percent of the share capital of Robert Bosch GmbH is held by Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, a charitable foundation. The remaining shares are held by Robert Bosch GmbH and by a corporation owned by the Bosch family. The majority of voting rights are held by Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG. It is entrusted with the task of safeguarding the company’s long-term existence and in particular its financial independence – in line with the mission handed down in the will of the company’s founder, Robert Bosch.
Additional information is available online at www.bosch.com, www.iot.bosch.com, www.bosch-press.com.
