Raymond wins ‘National Energy Conservation Award’

Raymond, the leading manufacturer, marketer and retailer of worsted suiting

fabrics over the last eight decades has bagged the second prize in the prestigious National Energy Conservation Awards 2013. Raymond was awarded for an energy conservation program undertaken by its state of the art Vapi manufacturing plant in Gujarat. The award was presented by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee to Raymond in the presence of Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of State for the Ministry of Power.

Harish Chatterjee, Vice President-Manufacturing, Textile Division at Raymond received this award on behalf of the company. Raymond won the award by reducing its ‘specific consumption’ of electrical energy and thermal energy as compared to last year by 6.74 percent and 7.74 percent respectively. The Raymond Vapi manufacturing plant achieved a commendable feat of saving of 30.23 lakh units of electrical energy and 5649.10 million Kcal of thermal energy in the last one year.

Thanking the Ministry of Power and Bureau of Energy Efficiency, who have recognized their efforts towards conserving energy, Chatterjee says this is the first award for Raymond Vapi manufacturing plant. He went on to add, Raymond has always been committed towards energy conservation and continues to make efforts in implementing innovative ideas to conserve energy.

Raymond has received this prestigious award six times in the past decade for their other manufacturing facilities located at Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh, Jalgaon in Maharashtra and Thane. Being the market leaders in the industry, Raymond strives to implement innovative ideas and industry best practices across all its manufacturing facilities in the country.