Pictured above: Ruud Lighting's Business Development Manager
Andrew Wallace, Oakland International's Director of Human Resources
and Purchasing David Hoey, and Director of Rudd Lighting John
Wallace
As part of Oakland International's ongoing work to reduce energy
usage throughout their multi temperature supply chain functions,
the specialist warehousing and logistics firm has further extended
their LED lighting investment in a move set to deliver savings both
in terms of carbon reduction by some 21-tonnes and in energy
savings of about 42% annually.
Heading the project and responsible for Oakland's Environmental
Management Group, Director of Human Resources and Purchasing, David
Hoey, commented: "Oakland International has a strong tradition of
investigating and implementing eco-friendly initiatives throughout
its operations, continuing to work with alternative processes and
methods where possible to reduce our environmental footprint and
that of our customers.
"The new LED lighting has had an immediate benefit by greatly
reducing our energy consumption and carbon emissions, as well as
enhancing the working environment for our team, delivering much
improved uniformity in a lighting solution which is more akin to
daylight."
Working with suppliers Ruud Lighting, Oakland is the first
business in the UK to use this type of LED lighting in a chilled
environment, with the LED product currently used by petrol
forecourts and in street lighting.
Said David: "With Oakland's environmental impact continuing to
reduce, even though we have more than doubled in size and
operational scale, the additional benefits derived from installing
the LED's include annual savings of £2,400 in energy costs
and maintenance charges, and with the LED's having a life span of
over 75,000hr, our savings will equate to well over £19,000
over 10 years, which is considerable."