CSL Ltd Annual Report 2019

15 Precision matters. Processes happen in parallel. Time is tight. So why not make the process quicker and more efficient with virtual reality? That’s the idea behind the augmented reality app “PlasmiX” being developed at CSL Behring’s leading-edge manufacturing site in Bern. For a user wearing mixed reality glasses, PlasmiX makes the invisible visible. Real-time data is projected on real objects, such as manufacturing equipment, and gives employees instant readings. Workers can act rapidly without needing to visit the control room. The “smart factory” technology recently won gold recognition at the Best of Swiss App Awards 2018. CSL Behring welcomes this immersive technology and is examining the need for further development. Virtual reality driving efficiency Imagine you’re in charge of a delicate operation – fractionating human plasma into components needed to make critical treatments for people who have rare and serious diseases. In manufacturing lifesaving biotherapies for people with rare and serious diseases, the facility produced wastewater equivalent to 100,000 city inhabitants, according to Bern’s Ministry of the Environment. Previously, that water had to be processed through Ara Region Bern Ag’s (arabern’s) wastewater system. Work was recently finished on an innovative, environmentally friendly approach that first collects the wastewater onsite and then sends it through a dedicated pipeline to an arabern bioreactor on the River Aare. There, it is now being converted into an alternative fuel called biogas. That fuel, similar to natural gas, is providing 20% of CSL Behring’s gas needs at the site in Bern. More on CSL.com (Corporate Responsibility > Environment) CSL Behring Bern arabern Heating and fuel Our production plants produce as much waste water load as 100,000 people combined. This energy can be used to heat buildings and serve as fuel for local buses and private cars. Aare (river) Did you know? Approximately 20% of CSLBehring’s gas needs can be met by the biogas into which the waste water is converted. That is equivalent to the energy of 7,000,000 car kilometres or travelling around the world 175 times ! The new catch basin for waste water on Sempachstrasse cuts out 140 waste disposal trips by lorry which in turn saves a considerable amount of noise and CO 2 . Catchbasin arabern is building a new catch basin underSempachPark.Twounderground pipelineswill carrywastewater from CSLBehring out of the catch basin to arabern. The waste water is converted into biogas in the converter at arabern and then ultimately into energy. Turning wastewater into clean energy CSL Behring’s leading-edge manufacturing site in Bern, Switzerland, has teamed up with the local wastewater company to both reduce its burden on local utilities and to turn discarded water into alternative fuel. CSL Limited Annual Report 2019 20 Powered by Innovation