The National Energy Efficiency Industry Awards are Australia's highest profile awards for energy efficiency, and recognise excellence in performance, leadership and innovation in the sector.
They are delivered by the Energy Efficiency Council (ECC) and at its annual conference last week, Orora was named Australia’s Leading Energy User 2014, by the ECC and the Energy Users Association of Australia (EUAA).
This award applauds Orora’s leadership and investment in energy saving initiatives across its Australasian business, as well as the actual energy savings and other benefits achieved by reason of those initiatives.
Luke Menzel, acting chief executive officer of the Energy Efficiency Council, said, “Orora demonstrated a strong, organisational wide program of interventions which has seen them make very substantive improvements in their energy efficiency over the last several years. Five year targets were met in three years, and judges were impressed that the organisation has already moved to a new set of more stringent targets. I extend warm congratulations to the Orora team for such a successful project.”
Highlights of Orora’s entry include:
• achievement of five year EnviroAction targets two years ahead of schedule and setting new challenging targets
• a 36.5% reduction in carbon emissions from lighting through the introduction of “smart lights” across the business
• a 17.87% reduction in emissions from compressed air through the introduction of compressed air management stations.
Orora was also recognised for the way in which it championed and promoted these initiatives across the business.
“A sustainable operating platform is of critical importance to us at Orora,” commented Nigel Garrard, Orora’s managing director and chief executive officer.
“A key element of this is our commitment to continuous improvement in managing the impacts we have on the communities and environment within which we operate, while creating value for our customers and shareholders.
Whilst the benefits of these initiatives are, on one level, reward enough, it is very satisfying for all at Orora for our efforts to be singled out, from amongst our peers, and recognised in this way by the peak industry body.”
