Glamox AS plans to replace primary with recycled aluminium for its flagship LED lights

Norway-based manufacturer of lighting and heating products, Glamox AS, has vouched to use recycled aluminium instead of conventional primary aluminium to make its flagship LED lights. With a mission to reach Net Zero by 2030, the company has made this declaration extremely transparent.

Glamox AS has already swapped virgin aluminium with recycled aluminium in one of its selling products and plans to do the same with the entire portfolio. This action will curtail a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide emitted while manufacturing Glamox LED lights.

This walk towards sustainability is highly beneficial for the company as the public now demands low-carbon solutions with the advent of the Paris Act of 2015. These LED lights with recycled aluminium content will further encourage a greener environment.

Recycled aluminium is extracted after scrap material of the same format is recycled. Aluminium transformation is more effortless than producing it from scratch, and it releases less carbon dioxide. Moreover, bauxite mining and alumina refining, the first two steps of creating aluminium, are energy intensive, costly and leave harmful residues.

The technical director of professional business solutions at Glamox, Birger Holo, commented: "We've already implemented the plan to shift over to recycled aluminium in the manufacture of a popular luminaire which will result in a 63 per cent reduction in the emissions of CO2 equivalents over using new aluminium in these profiles."

"By adding two new product lines, we estimate that we will eliminate a total of 1,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalents each year, which equals the amount of carbon sequestered by nearly 1,200 acres of forest a year," Holo explains.

The Glamox C80 luminaire range can be characterised by its recycled aluminium content, whereas the next to follow the path will be Glamox C35 and C95 LED lights. The brand's three particular product lines can be found in Keila, Estonia. The sets, when considered together, amount to 400,000 company items sold per annum, which has over 300 tonnes of aluminium content.

The business development director, who heads up the company's sustainability programme, Viktor Söderberg, notified: "We still have a lot of work ahead of us, but we are committed to helping our customers to reduce their carbon footprint and for us to achieve Net Zero operations by 2030."

"It's not enough providing energy-efficient LED lighting; we must ensure that every facet of our operations and supply chain minimises our environmental impact," Söderberg concluded.

Glamox is consecutively trying to omit plastic use while packing its products, thus trying to make a complete turn toward sustainability. Plastic solutions have already been removed from Glamox C35 and C95 LED light boxes.

The company also has developed an Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) generator that relies on international standards to document the environmental footprint of each product, considering their lifecycles.