Deployed since 2014, this project is based on the positive evolution of employee practices and improved efficiency of the Group’s industrial processes.

More specifically, the actions carried out include:

• Energy-saving employee practices:
  • E-learning recommended to all employees on the industrial premises and offered to all other employees, highlighting the challenges and the areas of progress for each employee at their level;
  • Specific training dedicated to all local project managers;
  • Wide publication of a good practice guide, revised every two years;
  • Sharing of all projects on a shared interactive platform.
• Improving the energy efficiency of industrial processes:
  • Creation of a global network of designated “energy leaders” pooling all actions and projects carried out in their unit via a platform;
    • 120 people – monthly meetings – global coordination and regional monitoring – dedicated energy performance reporting system
  • Provision of a good practice guide, directly applicable methodologies and framework agreements negotiated upstream that simplify the implementation of action plans on each industrial site;
    • Steam networks: systematic identification of defective steam traps entrusted to a subcontractor and replacement (at 30 plants – gain 30 GWh – emissions: -5,200 tonnes of CO₂/year)
  • Creation of benchmarks giving rise to global action plans with key improvement points, according to the “bulldozer approach”. With a long-term follow-up of actions and results and wide dissemination;
  • Allocation of an investment budget ($30M) dedicated to the actions carried out as part of this programme, which benefits about sixty projects per year.

This project was a determining factor in reducing the group’s annual energy consumption. This amounts to nearly 800 GWh/year – a decrease in annual GHG emissions related to energy consumed of 185 kt CO₂ over the 2014-2020 period.

At the end of 2020, most of the group’s industrial sites – representing more than 80% of its energy consumption – carried out actions in this context.