Clevertronics is committed to being the most reliable and trusted emergency lighting company, guided by sustainable practices and processes.
Investing in Sustainability
Clevertronics Managing Director Tony Todaro explains, We're dedicated to maintaining our position as the world’s most reliable and trusted emergency lighting company with an ongoing commitment to improve sustainability. We aim to be a business our people are proud to work for and our customers are confident to partner with, further helping them achieve sustainability outcomes.
We’ve built our sustainability foundation with initiatives such as renewable energy, removing toxic battery technology, and tripling the product lifetime of exit and emergency luminaires. Now, guided by a comprehensive three-year Environmental, Social Governance [ESG] strategy, we’re prioritising our efforts to accelerate our positive impact.
By continually improving the sustainability performance of our products, addressing our environmental and social impact, and maintaining transparent communications with our stakeholders, we cover all aspects of our business. Our strategy brings together sustainability targets to drive innovation and set a new standard in emergency lighting solutions, ensuring a better future for all.
Decreasing Landfill
In addition to solar, waste management has been addressed in production areas to decrease landfill, furthermore, the optimisation of existing manufacturing workflows has been addressed to better segregate parts and manage obsolescence including the redesign of shipping processes to reduce timber usage and better manage the recycling of packaging.
In the warehouse, a comprehensive waste management strategy has also been implemented to better sort and segregate components. By optimising the production flow and better managing office and engineering processes, landfill has been reduced from 55% to 10%. Components are now segregated at the source with four sorting bins assigned per user as opposed to 1 bin, to manage hard plastics, steel, e-waste and general waste.
Improving Recycling
Additionally, disassembly flow has also been upgraded with a new dedicated ‘Recycling Zone’ now located in the warehouse to assess and manage items planned for obsolescence. Plus, a new initiative has been implemented so partnerships can be developed with specialised 3rd parties to introduce the use of compostable biopolymers - reducing the use of synthetic polymers.
Reducing the wastage of timber in transit has also been addressed, with the logistics department reducing shipping costs by redesigning the use of skids (half pallets) to consolidate shipments into full pallets without affecting delivery lead times.
World-class Manufacturing
“Part of the process of improving sustainability is to build partnerships with people who can help us in our journey and to educate our team about recycling whilst developing best practice insights throughout the product lifecycle from production through to logistic practises and supply chain,” says Asela Angammana Clevertronics National Warehouse Manager.
Clevertronics world-class manufacturing facilities in Melbourne Australia are ISO 9001 and ISO 4001 accredited with internationally recognised Quality, Environment, Health and Safety management standards.
Investing in a 200kW solar rooftop array results in an estimated annual CO₂ reduction of 200 tonnes. With a forecasted energy production of 254MWh per year, Clevertronics reliance on external power is estimated to drop by over 50%, with the energy exported to the grid on the weekends now enough to power twelve average homes for a full year.
