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Possibilities: A Lumax Goal
Sustainability has always been at the core of LATL’s business, and culture. LATL’s solutions address the Company’s customer needs while delivering innovative products that help the industry and the world become safer, greener, more connected, and more sustainable.
Energy EfficiencySustainability is integral to the Company’s functioning. The Company pursues efficiency in everything It does to reduce/optimally consume materials and energy. LATL has been delivering on the Company’s beliefs and commitments while also living them daily. The Company’s business endeavours are aligned with customers’ sustainability commitments. The Company actively partner with them in their journey to carbon neutrality. LATL’s products, the materials used, the design, and the way the products are manufactured directly impact meeting their goals.
Some of the Company’s key initiatives are focused on improving overall efficiency aligned with the conservation of energy, including the reduction in energy consumption of:
LATL is actively involved to help arrest leakage. Thereby reducing pressure generation in compressors. The Company’s other strategies revolve around replacing pneumatic doors of the moulding machine with electrical doors.
LATL decreased the chiller compressor running hours by providing a reservoir tank to the chiller network system to reduce the Company’s overall energy consumption. Following this, the Company’s next approach is focused on insulating chilled water pipelines and chilled water tanks in order to further reduce its energy consumption.
LATL aims to lower energy consumption in cooling towers by replacing CI fan with FRP fan and interlocking of CT fan speed with cooling tower outlet temperature. The Company is also replacing cooling tower fins so as to reduce the heat transfer area.
Technology is changing at a faster pace than ever before. By availing the same, LATL aims to reduce energy consumption with the replacement of mica band heaters of injection moulding machines with IR heater and induction motor of air washer with EC motor. Further, the Company has installed an injection moulding machine by replacing the hydraulic motor with servo motor, and conventional fans with BLDC fans.
LATL’s current efforts are concerted towards reducing CO2 emissions by a significant percentage across the Company’s operations. The next step is to continue lowering the carbon footprint of the Company’s business operations through electricity conservation projects, sourcing renewable electricity for its operations, and optimizing machine power consumption. The Company has installed solar roof tops of around 2.08 MW in pursuit of the same. LATL is also working towards green power from the solar group captive park for our manufacturing plants. Currently, the Company is in different stages of discussion with various power producers who are physically present and have set up, or are at the final stage of finishing, renewable energy plants in Karnataka. This will bring in significant savings in energy consumption and reduce the business carbon footprint
The Company has installed roof-top solar panels at the following plants:
| Plant | Capacity (kW) |
| LATL, Bengaluru | 746 |
| LATL, Pantnagar | 208 |
| LATL, Manesar | 225 |
| LATL, Pune | 560 |
| LMPL, Pune | 126 |
| LCAT, Pune | 222 |
| Total | 2087 |
Although LATL’s operations are not water-intensive, the Company includes water management into its environmental risk management approach and our Environmental, Health and Safety policy. LATL identifies areas of water scarcity within regions where the Company’s operations/facilities are established, and take action to reduce its water consumption accordingly. All the Company’s actions are within its compliance, followed by the best practices in lower-risk areas. The Company’s campaign ‘Save Water’ focuses on limiting water usage and multiplying efficiency of the available resources within the firm. LATL has also invested in facilities and replacements for auxiliary equipment to recycle and reuse water at the Company’s manufacturing plants.