WEPs | 03.09.2020
On International Women Rights Day, Legrand reasserts its commitment to gender equality by supporting the Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs) defined by UN Women and Global Compact.
| 02.27.2020 08:00
Building on its growth momentum through the acquisition of front-runners, Legrand today announced the purchase of Focal Point, strengthening solid positions in specification-grade architectural lighting solutions for commercial buildings in the United States.
Group | 02.13.2020
As an inclusive company, Legrand attended the second edition of the autre cercle – Ifop held on February 12, 2020 in Paris.
Group | 01.28.2020
Since June 2019, Legrand, and six other partners representing the whole construction value chain, has joined Sekoya: Eiffage Group and Impulse Partners’ initiative to bring their expertise in carbon emission reduction and promote the use of carbon-free solutions.
CES 2020 | 01.06.2020
Legrand takes part in CES (Consumer Electronic Show). All the teams are very proud to show new connected experiences.
CES 2020 | 01.06.2020
Legrand is taking part in Unveiled at CES2020 in Las Vegas to announce Drivia with Netatmo: its first smart electrical panel for the residential sector.
Group | 11.19.2019
Each year since 2011, EcoAct* has established a ranking of climate reporting performance among component stock companies of stock market indices including France’s CAC 40, the FTSE 100 in the UK, the Spanish IBEX 35 and the DOW 30 in the US.
Group | 10.30.2019
This policy is mainly structured around 5 objectives: gender diversity, inclusivity towards people with disabilities, intergenerational collaboration, Social and cultural diversity, inclusion of LGBT+ people.
group | 10.14.2019
The award was handed over on October 2nd, 2019 in Paris to Emmanuelle Levine, Group General Counsel.
This award is attributed annually by Labrador, the specialist of regulated communication, since 2008 on the basis of an assessment grid designed by an independent scientific committee, comprising 205 criteria.
Group | 08.29.2019
Benoît Coquart, CEO, signed the French Climate Pledge on August 29th 2019, in the framework of the Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France (LaREF), strengthening Legrand’s historically strong commitment to limiting the impact of its activities on the environment.
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.
