Sustainable Manufacturing

• We recognize that our Planet is faced with severe Environmental and Ecological challenges – greatest of them being Resource depletion, Climate Change and Ecological disturbance. These are fast transforming the global economic, regulatory, and business environment.
• We are thoroughly aware of the persisting challenges of societal inequalities, exploitation, poverty and the health crisis that need to be addressed swiftly.
• As a responsible Organisation, we are committed to contribute in transforming to a Greener and more equitable future through Sustainable development practices.
• We continually strive to have a progressive influence on our people, stakeholders and the communities we work in by strictly adhering to fair practices and ethics across our operations, encompassing all our transactions.
• Sustainability is embedded as a core philosophy across the Organisation and we see Sustainable development as an essential business practice.
• We have made significant strides in Sustainability with our initiatives beginning since year 1994, when we setup our first Green energy plants.

• A comprehensive Materiality assessment has revealed the key Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues relevant to JKF, that are as follows:

• In our journey towards sustainable future, our ESG Vision is clearly articulated to the entire team by the top leadership.  We are committed to create a Sustainable future for all.
• Our Sustainability strategy constitutes the current Environmental priorities of Energy & Water conservation, Green House Gas (GHG) abatement, Waste minimisation, Greener materials & products and Pollutant reduction. Diversity, Human rights, Well-being and Innovation are our key focus areas under the Social and Governance facet.
• We have set ambitious ESG goals based on our business trajectory that are aligned to global & national SDGs and customer ESG goals, while being practical with a clear roadmap.
• We at J.K.Fenner focus on Environment, Social and Governance and they form the three pillars of our strategy. LEAN tool is used for resource consumption reduction to take care of environment, 3R tool is used for resource management and Abatement of CO2 for GHG net emission reduction to achieve our sustainability goal.

We have Carried Out Several Sustainability Initiatives In Our Green Journey by installing wind mills & solar plants. We understand that to move forward on Sustainability, we need to be backing down our Resource use. Its not a matter of short term measures, rather a marathon of consistent efforts.

In our pursuit to GHG abatement, we as an organisation have opted for greener power by installing wind mills for our plant operations (1994 onwards) and diversified into solar power from 2016.

India as a country continues to be deprived of safe drinking water. The country ranks among the top most water starved in the global ranking and we as a responsible corporate citizen have taken water conservation as a major initiative in all our plant operations. The 3R approach is taken along with innovation in manufacturing process as a continuous journey to become net water neutral in the years to come.

In our pursuit to become a net carbon neutral organisation, we always believe that LEAN principle applied in all our resource consumption will enable us to reach the goal. Hence the energy efficiency initiative is driven across plants on a continuous basis for more than a decade and lot of innovations have been implemented year on year. Periodical third part energy audits are conducted across plants and best practices are shared across plants. The industry bench mark is done on a continual basis and the road map are redefined to be the best in the industry.

Goal 2030: 20% Reduction in specific energy consumption (base year 2023)

Global warming is a big challenge the planet Earth is facing and CO2 emission plays a major role. Understanding the problem, we as a responsible corporate citizen have taken several initiatives in our energy consumption by adopting greener technologies like renewable energy and Bio Mass. The 3R principle is applied wherever possible.

Goal 2030: 50% Reduction in GHG intensity (In Manufacturing plants, base year 2023, Scope 1&2)

To contribute to the sustainability, we continuously enhance our product performance and the products are designed with greener materials to reduce the load on natural resources. LEAN principle is applied throughout our operations to produce more from less on a continuous basis.

We as an organisation believe that people are very important to take the sustainability Vision forward. Creating a great place to work is one of our endeavour to create a motivated team. The sustainability initiatives are taken out side the boundary of the organisation to the society and we try to give back what we have taken.

2030 Goals: Zero Fatality, 20% women in workforce, Compliance with Social Accountability Standard

To ensure that the organisation is aligned to the sustainability vision , robust management systems are in place. Periodic internal and external audit facilitates the effectiveness of implementation and the adherence. A well structured review forum is in place and all the compliances are reviewed by Leadership team in a defined frequency.

We are ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Certified.

We have published our First Sustainability Report (2023-24), which will be an annual feature going forward.To further strengthen our credibility and transparency, we are actively working towards:

• Carbon Footprint Validation
• Social Accountability certification
• Energy Management System certification
• SBTi commitment
• EcoVadis reporting
• Single Use Plastic (SUP) free