More than ever, we are convinced that useful technology will play a crucial role in creating a resilient, eco-responsible future.
Editorial by Vincent Bedouin
Grow positive impact business
The first commitment of our strategy is entitled “Grow positive impact business”:
this fundamental pillar aims to focus on positive impact solutions and create sustainable business models.
LACROIX’s mission and strategic positioning is to contribute to build and manage sustainable ecosystems thanks to useful robust and secure connected technologies.
In this way, LACROIX aims to position itself on the most buoyant markets, aligned with major socio-economic issues.
LACROIX Impact Score
This tool enables us to classify our products according to their contribution to the ecological transition to guide our market choices.
Products are thus classified into 3 distinct categories:
- Excluded product
- Neutral product
- Impact product
In 2023, LACROIX manufactured more than 97 million products, including:
- 100% of products from the activity Environment have a positive impact
- 51% of products from the activity Electronics products have a positive impact
The aim is to reach 80% by 2030, compared with an average of 61% for the Group as a whole in 2023.
Quantifiying the environmental benefits of our products
In order to measure the net environmental benefits of our equipment and industrial IoT solutions (avoided greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy and water savings, etc.), we have developed our own in-depth quantification methodology, based on the ADEME’s Project Footprint Method.
The activity Electronics manufactures electronic equipment to contribute to the transition of the automotive, avionics, HBAS and industrial sectors.
The aim is to:
- Gradually exit markets that do not demonstrate sufficient impact (oil exploration, video games, …)
- Accelerate positive-impact businesses (predictive maintenance, LED headlights, heat pumps, air purifiers, …)
The activity Environment optimizes and secures water and energy infrastructures for Water & Waterwaste, Smart Grids, HVAC and street lighting.
For this activity, our guidelines are:
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- Sustainability and innovation
- Focus on solutions that have the greatest impact when developing new offerings
- Maximize the impact of our installed base
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With this tool, we have demonstrated the positive net impact of our products for different use cases such as:
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Detection and lowering of public lighting for the City of Douai |
Sectorization and detection on the Water Systems of the Rhine Basin |
The impact calculations we have done on the two concrete cases around of the lighting (in Douai, France) and of the water (in Rennes basin, France), demonstrated that the energy savings generated by our solutions were over 40%.
In the coming months, we will quantify environmental benefits other use cases related to our activity Environment solutions: Heating, ventilation and air conditioning installations, electrical networks, etc.
