Air pollution control

By their very nature, the production processes employed at DaimlerChrysler plants lead to the creation of several air pollutants, most notably in the form of solvents (VOC) that are released from the paint shops. Other pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and dust, are produced primarily through combustion processes in furnaces and at engine test beds. It remains the company’s goal to maintain the low level of emissions that has been achieved in recent years, and to reduce emissions even further wherever this is technically and economically possible.

At DaimlerChrysler’s passenger car production plants in the 1990s, solvent emissions were already reduced by some 70 percent through the introduction of water-based paints.