Auto majors partner with Grundfos in their Greener cause

The Automotive industry in India is witnessing a sea-change in the last decade with the latest passenger and commercial vehicles hitting Indian roads every month; Under such momentum in the Industry, the Auto majors, Renault and Nissan had inaugurated their aligned plant at Chennai which was opened in a record 21 months of its groundbreaking ceremony.

The state-of-the-art aligned plant have an Annual production capacity of four lakh vehicles catering to local and export markets. This fully integrated plant was started in 2010, is currently rolling out Nissan’s Micra, Sunny, Teana & brand cars and Renault’s Fluence and Koleos.

The Green initiatives inside this plant is in line with their global concern on the environmental impact of their operations to a level that can be naturally absorbed by the earth. The zero water discharge plant is one of the uniqueness of the factory.

Rainwater harvesting practice undertaken inside this plant has significant success with 67% rainwater being used for production from in-house rainwater harvesting measures annually.

Against this backdrop of similar value orientation, Grundfos has been associated with this plant in the critical areas of water distribution & circulation and in Fire fighting systems; The applications are ranging from Industrial water transfer, RO water treatment, DM water transfer along with potable water distribution and in water harvesting tanks.

Over 50 Grundfos pumps are in operation includes high-pressure pumps, Variable speed pumping systems in Cooling plants; Hydro-pneumatic systems, Dosing pumps and motor & engine driven Fire fighting pump sets of FM/UL approved range.