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.
Impact as a strategic compass for our activity Electronics
We have created a tool called the Impact Score.
This tool is based on the European taxonomy, the latest IPCC report and ADEME’s Transitions 2050 scenarios, and 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 products
- Neutral products
- Impact products
Our goal is to reach 80% of impact products in revenue by 2030
In 2024, the share of impact products in our revenue was 61%.
For the activity Electronics, 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, …)
Quantifiying the environmental benefits of our activity Environment products
We know that our products are useful (water leak detection, reduced electricity consumption for lighting…) but we needed to prove it.
For the activity Environment, our guidelines are:
- Focus on solutions that have the greatest impact when developing new offerings
- Maximize the impact of our installed base
So we developed a second tool our own in-depth quantification methodology, based on ADEME’s Empreinte Projet Footprint Method, to measure the net environmental benefits (GHG emissions avoided, energy and water saved…) of our equipment and industrial IoT solutions.
With this tool, we have demonstrated the positive net impact of our products for different use cases such in Douai (France) and Eau du Bassin Rennais (France).
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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.
