Acuity Brands Lighting made the decision to introduce a new environmental impact program, Earthlight, designed to reduce their carbon footprint. This program aims to reduce overall environmental impact through material and freight to reduce CO2 emissions.
BCI worked closely with Acuity product engineers to redesign packaging to reduce waste and increase the number of finished products per pallet during shipment to reduce freight. Acuity engineers changed the final configuration of the light fixtures, allowing BCI to reduce the amount of packaging required to protect and ship the product.
Acuity realized a 133% improvement in pallet utilization. This allowed them
to save 99 full truck loads of finished products per year. This reduced Acuity’s
carbon footprint by 22,077 Tons of CO2 per year!
