Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) will make its Chennai plant operations fully carbon dioxide-neutral by 2025, as part of its sustainability goals.
The company aims to make its entire value chain CO2-neutral by 2047.
To meet the target, DICV is more than doubling the amount of captive solar power generated, along with buying wind-based power and bagasse-based green co-generation and is also changing all internal shuttles at the plant to electric vehicles.
The company will also reduce energy consumption of production shop by at least eight per cent by 2025 through upgradation of all lighting to LEDs, installing more efficient motors and using IoT devices to optimise the usage of equipment like chillers and compressors.
As part of the initiative, the company is targeting to reduce water consumption by 30 percent and aiming for 100 percent water self-reliance at the plant by 2025.
To continuously reduce waste generated from operations, DICV is increasing the usage of biodegradable plastic in the packaging process up to 50 percent by 2025 and will use only biodegradable packaging material for all internal distributions such as employee handouts.
Besides, DICV will also contribute to the betterment of nearby villages and societies by improving drinking water facilities and installing solar lighting in communities around Oragadam.