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Our leading-edge healthcare devices are also helping conserve resources and combat climate
change. Beginning in the early stages of design and development, we ensure that new products use
less energy than their predecessors. Consuming 30 percent less power for standard examinations
than previous models, our high-tech SOMATOM Denition CT scanners testify to the success of this
approach. And resource efciency can also be enhanced by refurbishing existing systems, since
longer product lifecycles cut material and resource consumption and substantially reduce energy
requirements and harmful CO2 emissions.
Siemens’ refurbished systems are making another important contribution to sustainable
develop-
ment by providing affordable alternatives in regions where improvements in healthcare are urgently
needed but money for new equipment is scarce. In addition to minimizing environmental impact
and promoting public welfare, this approach is good for business: our low-priced, high-quality
products are door openers to markets in Venezuela, India, Vietnam and Pakistan, for instance.
A strategy for success
We’re fostering sustainable development around the world while tapping new markets with our
products and systems. This strategy is not only powering our business success. It’s also positioning
us to fulll our responsibilities as a global player – today and for the benet of the generations
to come.
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of Kampala, Uganda. The stations’ photovoltaic panels generate up to ten kilo-
watt hours of electricity – enough to charge some 400 batteries a day. Under
a deposit system, lamps and battery packs that have run out of power can be
exchanged for recharged devices. Until recently, shermen on Lake Victoria used
kerosene lamps to lure sh into their nets at night. Consequently, more than half
their income was spent on fuel. Now, the use of battery-powered lamps is cut-
ting the shermen’s costs substantially. OSRAM’s off-grid lighting system is mak-
ing a major contribution to corporate responsibility at Siemens while providing
a sustainable lighting solution that’s improving people’s lives, protecting the
climate and opening up protable business opportunities.