Over 20 specialist trade partners and NORDWEST join forces to donate to climate protection
Dortmund, 9 February 2026 – As part of the publication of the new Tool Technology Catalogue 2026/2027, NORDWEST has launched an extensive recycling project in collaboration with more than 20 specialist trade partners. The aim was to make sustainable use of the remaining stocks of the old catalogue edition held by specialist trade partners and in NORDWEST’s own warehouse, while at the same time supporting an effective climate protection project. The proceeds from the catalogue recycling campaign will go in full to the nationwide peatland restoration project “Mittelstand & Moor”, run by the Mittelstandsverbund – the German Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.
As the publication date of the new Tool Technology Catalogue has been brought forward to the beginning of the year, meaning that it is now published six months earlier, some specialist trade partners still had remaining copies of the previous edition. More than 20 specialist trade partners took part in the recycling and donation campaign, as did NORDWEST itself with its own remaining stocks, helping to create space, return the paper to the value chain and support climate protection.
To prevent old catalogue stocks from going to waste, NORDWEST initiated a centrally coordinated return and recycling campaign throughout Germany. In collaboration with recycling specialist Pannhorst, the old editions were collected, professionally processed and returned to the paper industry as raw material – a closed loop fully in keeping with sustainable resource use. This joint initiative has not only reduced the carbon footprint – it also strengthens the regional circular economy and Germany as a business location, eases pressure on logistics chains and demonstrates how forward-looking action works in small and medium-sized enterprises.
By bundling the volumes, a particularly attractive remuneration rate was achieved. The collections took place at participating specialist trade partners at the same time as the delivery of the new Tool Technology Catalogue – a logistical and cost-saving advantage for both the dealers and the association.
Joint donation enables restoration of several hectares of peatland
Instead of many individual, small-scale credits, the trade partners involved decided to donate their proceeds to a joint climate protection project. This resulted in a combined contribution sufficient to restore four hectares, or 40,000 m2 of peatland. Peatlands are among the world’s most effective natural CO₂ stores. Although they cover only around 3 per cent of the Earth’s land surface, they store 25 to 30 per cent of global terrestrial carbon in the form of peat – more than all the world’s forests combined. Intact, wet peatlands reduce CO₂ emissions in the long term and at the same time make an important contribution to biodiversity.
The entire donation will go towards the “Mittelstand & Moor” project initiated by MITTELSTANDSVERBUND, in which Sinnstifter Mittelstand für Mensch und Natur gGmbH and the Brandenburg Nature Landscapes Foundation are working together to restore 200 hectares of peatland in Brandenburg through rewetting. In this way, the companies involved are making a direct contribution to wilderness and peatland development and thus also to climate and biodiversity protection. A strong signal for sustainable action industrial B2B!
