Translations:BSH Chronologie 1984-2002: Nachhaltigkeit und Internationalisierung/28/en

The topic of environmental protection became increasingly important in a social context at the end of the 1980s. The existence of holes in the ozone layer was well known, for example, from 1985. The Montreal agreement on protecting the ozone layer was concluded three years later. The factory in Giengen was already producing refrigerators with half the CFC consumption from 1988.  Management established the Corporate Environmental Protection department in 1991 and the first environmental report was published one year later. This was only the starting point however for the company's commitment to the environment. European production switched to CFC-free refrigerators in 1993 and HFCs have also been banned from BSH's European refrigerators since 1994.