Environment Protection & Engineering

Emission control, water treatment, climate protection—in these and other areas, environmentally friendly products from Heraeus offer innovative solutions. Heraeus supplies the important platinum- or palladium-based components for catalytic converters in automobiles. Complete catalysts clean exhaust fumes from the small engines of lawnmowers, chainsaws and motorbikes. Water treatment with UV radiation is a very effective physical process for disinfecting water without chemicals and for breaking down harmful substances. In the fertilizer industry, catalytic systems selectively destroy nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas. And sputtering targets used in coating large architectural glass of homes and offices yield valuable energy savings in summer and winter alike.