Current topics
and developments at Continental
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Corporate Social Responsibility is a company's responsibility in economic, ecological and social matters. On these pages, we would like to give you an overview of the latest topics regarding the sustainable development of the company. |
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3rd “Continental Student Survey” in Romania
Bucharest/Hanover, October 8, 2009. Financial crisis sets new trend: Romanian students go for job security and employer loyalty.
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Continental Plant in Northeim Celebrates Health Day
September 2009. On health day at the Continental plant in Northeim, a lot of interesting activities drew quite a few employees, who were invited to participate under the motto “As long as it’s healthy”.
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ContiTech Kühner invests in environmental protection
September 2009. New cleaning system completely dispenses with the need for the chemical perc and saves 7.5 tons annually.
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Being fit is fun: Special Day for Health-Conscious Employees
If you are healthy, you feel better and get more done: Numerous employees at Continental in Frankfurt am Main took this principle to heart and accepted the invitation of the health work group to a special health day on September 16, 2009.
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IdeenExpo 2009
Again this year Continental is participating in the IdeenExpo with interesting “hands-on” exhibits from September 5 to 13, 2009, in Hanover. The point of the exhibition is to get children, teenagers, parents and teachers interested in the exciting and fascinating world of technology and the natural sciences.
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Continental gives unemployed South Africans a special opportunity
Hanover, September 2009. Just under a year before the start of the 2010 FIFA World CupTM in South Africa, Continental has initiated a special on-location training program.
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6th “Continental Student Survey”
Hanover/Berlin, September 4, 2009. In the course of the ongoing financial and economic crises, the state has done “more than necessary” in the opinion of some 42% of German students this summer. At the beginning of the year, just under 24% were of this opinion.
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Printing Blankets for Climate Protection
Hanover, August 2009. ContiTech Elastomer Coatings is the world’s first manufacturer to have a carbon footprint drawn up for printing blankets. According to the study, the production of ContiTech’s printing blankets generates up to 70% less climatically detrimental CO2-emissions compared to world standard printing blankets.
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Continental sponsors Racing Teams at Formula Student Germany
Hanover/Hockenheim, August 10, 2009. Some 4000 spectators, 77 teams, four days, eight disciplines – those are the key figures for the Formula Student Germany 2009. At this year’s major VDI event at the Hockenheimring, many teams relied once again on technology and experience from Continental and successfully demonstrated what they are capable of.
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299,990 Ideas to Improve Economic Efficiency
Hanover, August 5, 2009. Last year, Continental’s employees came up with roughly 299,900 ideas – or more than 1,000 ideas each working day – to improve the efficiency and economy in their company.
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GEIP Prepares Prospective Engineers for Assignments Abroad
In July 2009 Continental held this year’s Global Engineering Internship Program (GEIP) workshop in Frankfurt am Main. 16 students from five countries got together in the banking metropolis with representatives from GEIP’s partner universities and the Continental Corporation.
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Continental Trainees Found Junior Company in Hanover
In June 2009, the Continental trainees at the Hanover location opened up the doors of their junior company “YoungConti” for the very first time.
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Continental Honored for Applicant Communication
Hanover, June 16, 2009. Continental AG has been honored with the Kienbaum Communications Award in gold for its applicant communication. In the category “Best rejection letters to applicants in general", Kienbaum Communications accorded first place to the international automotive supplier.
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Tomorrow’s Engineering Elite Counts on Material and Know-How from Continental
Hanover/Korbach, May 26, 2009. When the fast Formula Student cars take off on their first lap around Hockenheimring on August 8, 2009, young engineers will once more be placing their faith in technology and experience from Continental.
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Eco-friendly rubber bearings for wind power stations
Hanover, May 2009 – The wind power sector is booming all around the world. Eco-friendly energy production is very much the trend. For ContiTech Vibration Control, this represents a key future market. The company produces state-of-the-art bearing systems for wind power plants from corrosion-proof, flexible and durable rubber.
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Continental Employees Offer Young Brazilians Positive Future Perspectives
The education of young people is something that matters very much to the employees of Continental’s Várzea Paulista plant in Brazil. In April 2009 they were even on television to talk about their concerns.
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Continental Engineers from Ashington Build Record Speedster Out of the Toy Box
Continental engineers from the ContiTech division in Ashington, UK, showed a great deal of effort and commitment at the University of Newcastle’s Festival of Social Science by using parts from a toy box to construct a racing car together with four school children from the Mortimer Primary School in neighboring South Shields.
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Huntsville: New housing for deprived families
Together with volunteers from "The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America" (UAW), Continental employees from the Huntsville plant (Alabama, USA) helped build new housing for deprived families in April 2009.
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Health Day in Babenhausen With Checkups and Health Advice
At the Health Day in March 2009 many of the employees working at Continental's site in Babenhausen keenly benefited from the broad range of advisory topics encouraging healthier living.
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Young Conti Professionals from Bebra Delighted at Winning 1st Prize
March 2009. Five young Conti professionals from Bebra were delighted to be awarded 1st prize in the “My Future” young talent contest initiated by HessenMetall, the Hessian employers’ association for the metal and electrical industries.
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Carpooling at Continental’s Plant in Iasi, Romania, Protect the Environment
It's nothing new for anybody who drives to work: cars all traveling in the same direction, but with only a driver and no passengers. At the Continental Automotive location in Iasi, Romania, that hasn’t been the case since March 2009.
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Continental Intensifies Cooperation with the Leibniz Universität Hannover
Continental AG, Hanover, and the Leibniz Universität Hannover are systematically expanding their cooperation: The president of the university, Dr. Erich Barke, appointed on March 25, 2009 Continental manager Dr. Jorge Lacayo-Pineda as honorary professor of the university.
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Continental Wins Georgia Tech Prize
Hanover/Atlanta, March 23rd, 2009. Continental has once again been cited for its international university project “Global Engineering Excellence” (GEE). The Georgia Institute of Technology has honored the ambitious project with its Work Abroad Employer of the Year Award in Atlanta (USA).
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7,400 Kilometers for a Good Cause
They want to help out, but not just with a monetary donation. That’s why Continental employee Tim Schütrumpf and his former workmate Elmar Schmidt are participating in the Dresden-Dakar-Banjul amateur rallye from the end of February to the end of March 2009.
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Northeim Plant Enters into Cooperation with Secondary School
Based on the IGELab – an experimental chemistry lab for school kids in Hanover – a cooperative venture evolved in February 2009 between the ContiTech plant in Northeim and the local secondary school Corvinianum.
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Continental plant in Regensburg is committed to school children
In 2009, the employees of the Continental plant in Regensburg demonstrated their commitment to school children again. They participated in the "Newspapers in the School" project in close collaboration with the Institute for the Objectivization of Learning and Testing Procedures (IZOP) and the "Mittelbayerische Zeitung" newspaper.
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Continental’s Plant in Frenstat, Czechia, Helping to Protect the Environment
Continental’s Powertrain and Interior divisions at the plant in Frenstat, Czechia, are doing their best to protect the environment. In January 2009, a waste air treatment system was put into operation with the aim of reducing pollutant emissions.
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Continental's Executive Board Member for HR Advises Dannenberg Pupils on Career Opportunities
January 2009. The “Win a Boss” campaign started by the magazine “Junge Karriere” [“Young Careers”] gave upper secondary school classes a chance to win a top manager for a day. At a school in Dittmarschen, Continental Executive Board member for HR, Heinz-Gerhard Wente, was awarded a 13th grade class.
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Thinking and acting "green" has many advantages
In January 2009, the Continental employees at the Mexican location Guadalajara received the Continental BASICS Award for their environmental awareness and social commitment.
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Employees Worldwide Evaluate Continental Positively as Employer
Hanover, December 29, 2008. Continental employees have once again given their company above average good marks. In several subject areas, the evaluations were by far better than the industry benchmarks.
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Diversity Charter
It is not only internally that Continental fulfils its obligation in terms of diversity. The company also shows its commitment to this topic to the outside world. We demonstrated this in December 2008, when we signed the Diversity Charter, an initiative aimed at promoting diversity within companies.
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ContiRunningDay 2008 - Corporate donation to “Doctors Without Borders”
Continental donates 100.000 Euro for the Organisation of “Doctors Without Borders”. On the 19th of November the Chairman of the Executive Board Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann handed over the cheque to Dr. Tibor Sasse, Member of the Executive Board of “Doctors Without Borders”.
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Endless Energy: Electric Power from the Ocean
Hanover, November 2008 - There is an endless amount of energy available within the world’s oceans. So waves could be the energy resource of the future. What’s more, marine energy is produced without any CO2 emissions, so it is environmentally friendly as well. As a specialist in rubber and plastics technology, ContiTech has now developed “AquaBuOY”, a wave energy converter, together with its Canadian partner Finavera Renewables.
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Continental Plant in Mexico Gets Daycare Center in Shape
As part of the global “Let’s clean the world” campaign, the employees of Continental’s Mexican plant in Juarez refurbished the “Elisa Griensen” public daycare center in October 2008.
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Around 10,000 Employees Run Worldwide for a Good Cause
On your mark! – Get set! – Go! On ContiRunning Day 2008 on October 11, around 10,000 Continental employees at sixty locations went to the start to run or walk for a good cause.
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5,000 ducks raise funds for environmental protection projects in Timişoara, Romania
On October 4, five thousand ducks raced on the Bega River in Timişoara, Romania, during the “Bega Boulevard” event. The funds raised at the event will be used for local environmental protection projects.
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Continental Employees Lose Weight for Charity
September 2008. Over a six-month period, around 250 employees at the Continental plant in Gifhorn slimmed down a total of 450 kg to win a donation "Small Kids – Always Well-Fed" relief fund. Continental donated one euro to charity for every kilo lost.
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Health week in Slovakia
From September 22 to 28, 2008, everything revolved around the health of the employees at the Continental plant in Slovakia.
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School classes Can "Win" Continental's Human Resources Director, Heinz-Gerhard Wente
Hanover, September 17, 2008. “Junge Karriere” [Young career magazine] campaign: Senior high school classes can win a day with a top manager at their school.
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Citation for Environmental Commitment
ContiTech’s Phoenix Yule plant in Kalyani, India, took top honors at India’s Environmental Excellence Award ceremony on September 6, 2008. In further acknowledgement of Phoenix Yule's strong commitment to environmental protection, the company was singled out for the “Greentech Excellence Silver Award”.
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Hybrid and Electric Vehicles Offer Tremendous Potential in UK
Hanover, August 2008. Electric cars and vehicles with hybrid drive enjoy remarkable interest among motorists worldwide – but the British are a little more restrained.
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Summer contest for increased road safety
"Become a road safety reporter": under this slogan, the European Commission is calling for participation in the summer competition of the European Road Safety Charter from 21st July to 24th October 2008.
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Continental a Much Sought-After Training Company
Hanover, August 26, 2008. More than 2,000 school graduates have filed an application with the international automotive supplier for a traineeship slot as of September 1, 2008.
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Employment also shores up quality of life
Since August 2008, the Continental location in Cuautla, Mexico, has been participating in a program funded by the Mexican government (INAPAM, National Institute for Attention to Adult People) that arranges jobs for people over 65.
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Continental Employees in Romania Get Involved on Behalf of Flood Victims and Children in Distress
In August 2008 Continental employees from Timisoara, Sibiu and Iasi raised a total of 3,000 euros as well as collecting food for flood victims in the Moldova region. Already in June 2008 employees at the Continental plant in Sibiu contributed to a good cause.
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Annual Reforestation Program in Guadalajara, Mexico
In July 2008 the annual reforestation project took place at the Continental location in Guadalajara, Mexico. In the largest forested area in the vicinity of Guadalajara, the “Bosque de la Primavera”, staff and their families planted 10,000 trees.
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Bike Racing Benefit for Those in Need of Care
“On your saddle, get set – GO!” rang out for six employees at the Continental plant in Wigan in July 2008. Together with 6,000 other bikers, they collected money for different social institutions in the “Manchester to Blackpool Charity Bike Ride”, a bike racing benefit in the northwestern region of the UK.
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Continental Supports China University Basketball Association Tournament in Anhui
In July 2008, the China University Basketball Association tournament was supported by Continental’s Wuhu (China) site, as the partner of Anhui Technology and Science University, one of the leading universities in that province.
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Continental Plant in Korbach Donates Teaching Materials
In June 2008 the students at three of Korbach's schools were delighted with technical equipment and utensils for physics and chemistry instruction.
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Hybrid and Electric Vehicles Gaining Recognition Worldwide
Hanover/Vienna, June 27, 2008. Electric cars and vehicles with hybrid drive enjoy remarkable interest among motorists worldwide. A total of 36.0 percent of those surveyed were willing to buy a car with hybrid drive; more remarkably, 45.8 percent were interested in purchasing an electric car.
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Continental Tire North America Partners with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Continental Tire North America (CTNA) officially joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay® Transport Partnership initiative in June 2008.
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ContiTech Celebrates World Environment Day in Carei, Romania
On June 5, 2008, the ContiTech location in Carei celebrated World Environment Day. It was already the third time the ContiTech plant in Romania has organized activities on this day. All employees and their families as well as the general public were invited to take part.
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Continental donates EUR 225,000 - to support the earthquake-hit Sichuan area of China
Hannover, June 5, 2008. The employees of the corporation in China and Asia show solidarity to earthquake victims in China and initiate a donation program with the support of the company.
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5th Continental Student Survey
Hanover/Berlin, June 3, 2008. Positive economic conditions lift university graduates’ career optimism to the highest level for the past 5 years, but lessens willingness towards flexibility and mobility.
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Nation-wide Kick-off for www.SchulwegPlaner.de
Hanover, May 2008 - Children are the most vulnerable traffic participants, they are unable to properly assess the dangers and often go unseen in blind areas. According to the German Statutory Accident Insurance, last year some 120,000 accidents involving children on the way to school were reported, 59 of which were fatal. All the more reason for parents to plan and practice the school route together with their children.
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Future Day at Continental: World of Technology Attracts Youngsters
On Future Day in April 2008, various Continental plants allowed a number of children to take a look at the future work world. Since the introduction of this day in 2001 (originally as Girls’ Day), many Continental locations have taken part with a widely varied program.
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Charity Kicks Off with Football Heroes – Continental Organizes Tournament
In March 2008, the team of hobby footballers from Continental in Brazil took on the Brazilian All-Star Masters, a selection of famous football stars, ex-professionals and players from the national league.
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Hybrid drive for BMW and lithium-ion battery for Mercedes
Hanover, March 2008. In view of their high fuel-saving potential, hybrid drive systems are felt to have a future, in particular for city use. The additional torque also makes driving twice as much fun.
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The Continental tire plant in South Africa distinguishes itself through its energy-saving program
Due to the current energy crisis in South Africa, Continental Tyre South Africa (CTSA) has presented its comprehensive energy-saving project. Since the project began in 2005, the Continental plant has reduced its energy consumption by about 10%.
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ContiTech Donates Truck for Educational Purposes
Hanover, January 11, 2008. ContiTech is giving the Burgdorf-Lehrte vocational school a used commercial vehicle for educational purposes.
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