group | 09.21.2020
The international jury at the XXVI Compasso d’Oro ADI Award, granted Living Now, the revolutionary range of electric controls of Bticino, Italian branch of Legrand Group, an Honourable Mention.
Group | 07.02.2020
Legrand aims to eliminate its net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 across all of its activities, for a global warming level limited to 1.5°C.
Legrand's responsibility is also to fight against pollution, in particular with regard to water management and emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC).
Legrand precisely measures its Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from the industrial processes implemented at Legrand’s sites. The injection and moulding of plastic components, stamping of metal parts, assembly of plastic, metallic, and electronic components, and painting or surface treatment of components can release VOCs and although the quantities involved are quite low, Legrand is committed to reducing them even further.
10% reduction in VOC emissions
Environmental reporting covers water use on industrial sites. However, to measure the impact of Legrand activities, we need not only to measure the volume of water used by industrial sites (from environmental reports), but also its value: natural abundance of water and competition to access this resource.
All industrial installations are strictly controlled in terms of potential pollution due to discharge into the water.
Legrand does not directly exploit soils nor biodiversity as part of its activities. The Group's manufacturing sites are, for the most part, located in business parks or industrial estates that are subject to specific regulations. Furthermore, the Group considers that the attention paid to reducing water consumption, particularly in areas with water restrictions, contributes to limiting human pressure on ecosystems. Lastly, the manufacturing nature of the Group's activities can enable sites to be configured over several floors, limiting the footprint of these sites.
On the other hand, Legrand takes the concept of grey biodiversity into account. Similar to grey energy, grey biodiversity is the cumulative impact on the ecosystems and biodiversity for the entire life cycle of a material or product (equipment, energy): the extraction, raw materials, manufacturing, transport, commissioning, use and end of life. Each of these steps generates impacts that are more or less significant on the living (destruction of species or habitats, consumption or natural resources, different types of pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, etc.).
Evaluating grey biodiversity may make use of PEPs (Product Environmental Profiles) the various indicators of which (intermediate indicators), such as air toxicity, water toxicity or eutrophication, enable us to estimate the potential damage to the diversity of ecosystems (damage indicators). The Group thus has a relatively broad base for an indirect evaluation of its biodiversity footprint.
