LANXESS India bags two Global Environment and Energy Foundation (GEEF) Global Awards

Mumbai, 22 August 2024: LANXESS India has won two prestigious Global Environment and Energy Foundation (GEEF) Global Awards – Safety award in the platinum category and the WaterTech award in the Sustainable Water Management category for the year 2024. These accolades are a testament to our commitment towards excellence in safety standards and sustainable water management practices.

Balaram Khot, Wholetime Director and Head of PTSE along with Bharat Meesala, Senior Manager, PTSE – Occupational Safety, Xact, Responsible Care and Trade Compliance received the awards on behalf of LANXESS India at a gala event held in New Delhi on 26th July 2024.

The GEEF Global Safety Award recognizes LANXESS India’s outstanding achievements in maintaining the highest safety standards within the chemical industry. The platinum category win displays the organization’s dedication to ensuring a safe working environment for all its employees and stakeholders. LANXESS has strict group-wide directives on health protection, occupational & process safety. These directives focus primarily on identifying risks in advance and implementing measures designed to prevent accidents and rapidly detect and respond to incidents. Key features of the safety systems include active involvement of the employees in building operating procedures, job safety analysis, more focus on the behaviour-based safety programs, robust work permit system, contractor management systems, programs to improve employee health, implementation of strong technical control measures, increased focus on reporting of unsafe conditions and unsafe acts, incident management system, trainings and effectiveness check.

The Global WaterTech Award in Sustainable Water Management category highlights LANXESS India’s innovative approach towards sustainable water management. Water plays a central role in LANXESS’s strategy. As a chemical company, the organization faces up to its responsibility to decouple its own water consumption from economic growth and pursues clear goals: reducing specific water consumption overall and local water consumption, especially at sites where water is scarce. To this end, a water risk analysis is regularly carried out at LANXESS’ sites to accurately measure what is known as “water stress,” i.e. the relationship between water withdrawal and renewable water supplies.

Measures followed with firmly defined targets include:

• reducing water withdrawals through increased water recycling and
• implementing local water stewardship projects

For example, at the Nagda site, discharge from Effluent Treatment Plant is treated in a PTRO unit and evaporator plant so that no liquid effluents are discharged from the site at all and water recovered is re-used for the production processes. Also, grey water from domestic effluent of the neighbouring colonies is treated in the sewage treatment plant and a part of this treated water is used in our processes.

Commenting on the win, Namitesh Roy Choudhury, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, LANXESS India said, “We are honoured to receive the GEEF Global Awards. We remain committed to advancing sustainable practices that benefit not only our organization but also the communities we serve and the environment at large. These recognitions motivate us to keep pushing the boundaries and lead by example in the industry.”

The Global Energy and Environment Foundation (GEEF) Global Awards honour organizations that excel in topics of safety, health, security management, water, wastewater and sustainable development among others. The jury comprised of eminent personalities from government, academia and industry.