Environment
Committed to being responsible towards saving the environment
As a responsible corporate citizen, Lumax Industries work hard to make meaningful and enduring contributions to environment. The Company strives to play a significant role in contributing to environmental endeavours.
Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) Policy
The Company already has an Environment, Health, and Safety Policy in place, which is also displayed at the Company’s plants/facilities for the benefit of all of its workforce/employees.
Lumax Industries is committed to achieving and maintaining world-class health and safety standards and protecting environment through continual improvement for all our employees by:
- Proper design of all the processes
- Complying with statutory and regulatory requirements
- Consultation and participation of workers and their representatives
- Developing, improving and sustaining processes for systematic prevention & elimination of ill health, injuries, safety & environmental hazards & the risks involved
- Prevention of pollution and conservation of natural resources
- Prevention of waste generation by 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle)
Strategic Initiatives Undertaken for Energy Conservation
Lumax Industries formed a dedicated Energy Management Department in 2017. The Department has a well-planned action plan to reduce the energy consumption at the plant and its impact on the environment. Plant-specific internal audit plans helps in identifying the Company’s progress on conservation. Lumax Industries also has an Energy Policy in place, which establishes energy reduction goals.
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Key steps Taken and their Impact on Conservation of Energy
- Upgraded to a better energy-efficient chiller system
- Reduced running hours of the chiller compressor by adding a reservoir tank to the chiller network system
- Minimised chiller energy consumption through the insulation of chilled water pipeline and chilled water tank
- Reduced generation pressure of the compressor by leakage arresting
- Installed auto drain trap for receivers instead of timer-based drain traps
- Installed equipment that uses less compressed air for the vacuum generation at assembly lines
- Upgraded inefficient pumps with energy-efficient pump
- Installed variable frequency drives on pumps to reduce pumping volume while operating higher capacity pumps, thereby, decreasing the pumping cost
- Modified process pump pipe network to reduce the friction loss, which, in turn, will reduce the pumping cost of the system
Installed equipment with higher surface temperatures such as:
- Injection molding machine hopper insulation
- Insulation paint on oven with high surface temperature
- Insulation paint on the molds with higher surface temperature
- Upgraded Interlocking CT fan speed with cooling tower outlet temperature to reduce cooling tower energy consumption
- Upgraded conventional motors with energy-efficient motors
- Upgraded greater capacity motors with lesser capacity motors for an effective motor load analysis
- Installed variable frequency drive (VFD) on a motor with underload capacity utilisation to reduce energy consumption while optimising motor speed
- Upgraded from energy consumption mica band heaters of injection molding machine to IR heater for reducing cost
- Upgraded to induction motor of air washer with EC motor for reducing energy consumption
- Upgraded hydraulic motor to servo motor and, thereby, contributed in reducing energy consumption of injection molding machine
- Upgraded conventional fan to Brushless Direct Current Technology (BLDC) fan
Steps taken to Increase our Future Contribution Towards Renewable Energy in Manufacturing
Lumax Industries has put up equity to buy solar power from Group Captive Solar Park for one of the Company’s plants. The Company has installed 3.34 MW roof top solar panel and agreed upon overall capacity of 3 MW DC. Furthermore, the Company is discussing with various power producers who are physically present in group captive mode and have set up/are nearing completion of their captive plant for renewable energy in Haryana, Karnataka, and Gujarat region. This will result in significant savings in energy costs and reduction in carbon footprint.
Energy Management System (EnMS) ISO 50001
Lumax Industries has acquired ISO 50001 certification for the Company’s Energy Management System (EnMS) for one of its factories in Bawal. Going ahead, the Company plans to certify other units. This certification will assist plants in keeping a check on their energy consumption and, as a result, will aid in continuous improvement in energy consumption reduction.
Lumax Industries has installed energy monitoring systems for one of its plants at Bawal and planning to get certified for all other plants, as part of the Company’s goal to continuously improve each process and monitor real-time data bases to avoid resource loss. Furthermore, the Company plans to completely connect all plants with this cloud-based centralized energy monitoring system.
Using Renewable Sources of Energy
Lumax Industries wants to transform around 60% of the Company’s total capacity into renewable sources, which will fall under a group captive solar/wind park regulation. The Company is aiming for 60% because there are a few challenges to 100% conversion, mentioned as follows:
- Plants with contract demand less than 1000 kVA are not eligible for power offtake through group captive
- Settlement in the peak hours is not allowed by the respective state’s DISCOM which is around 15-20% of total plant consumption
- Due to the dynamic nature of plant production, the Company takes 20% margin in signing the Power Purchase Agreements
Vision of ‘Carbon Footprint Reduction’
By 2030, India will have met 50% of its energy needs with renewable energy. So starting now, India will lower its overall estimated carbon emissions by one Billion tonnes. And so by 2030, India’s economy will have reduced its carbon intensity by less than 45%.
We Contributed
Lumax Industries has installed a solar rooftop with approximately 3.34 MWp for renewable energy generation. The Company has also signed a Power Purchase Agreement with a capacity of about 8.0 MW DC for the Group’s captive offtake of electricity from renewable energy sources. At present, 3 megawatts direct current (MW DC) of the total contractual capacity is already operational, and the Company is drawing electricity up to the maximum allowed by the contract.