Newsletter Quantec

we would like to express our thanks to all our customers and business partners for a successful year in 2009.

Our gift to you, our world and our environment is that

we have become the sponsor of
three children in need and

we have taken steps in our
company which have dramatically
reduces our CO2 emissions

We wish you a joyful and peaceful holiday period and a happy New Year

Your QUANTEC Team

QUANTEC sponsors three
children from Third World countries

The worldwide financial crisis has hit the countries of the Third World particularly hard. These countries are also not recovering as well as the

industrialised countries where the crisis originated.

Since this affects children in these countries in particular, and instead of the usual Christmas gifts to the members of our QUANTEC user forum, we have decided this year to sponsor one child each from three different continents.

From now on, we will report every year on how things are going with our three protégés.

QUANTEC & environmental protection

Solar power with photovoltaics

Our objective was, within one year, to produce more electricity with the aid of the sun than we use within our own company. This objective was achieved in the year 2009.

We have installed a system which can produce up to 10 Kilowatts of electricity. This would be enough to power 167 60-Watt bulbs simultaneously.

Since we have now also converted the PCs of all our staff to passively cooled PCs, we also save the electricity for the fans. This is not only very good for the environment, but also for ourselves here in the company:

Without the fans in the many computers, it is now also very quiet in the office.

All this creates a very pleasant atmosphere . . .

Oil heating out Pellet heating in

The second major environmental contaminator at QUANTEC was the oil heating. This has now been replaced by pellet heating, which has a much better ecological balance, since wood binds CO2 when growing, which is only released again on combustion.

The fact that the company is located directly next to woodland, and our supplier produces, dries and stores the pellets in a facility only 300 m away from us improves the ecological balance even further due to the short distances.

QUANTEC declines subsidies

We find that it is more beneficial to do things under ones own efforts. We have therefore deliberately declined the state subsidies available for conversion from oil to pellet heating.

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