Making Earth Cool Again
Understanding Carbon & GHG Emissions
Carbon neutral means that any CO2 released into the atmosphere from a company’s activities is balanced by an equivalent amount being removed.
Carbon negative means that activity goes beyond achieving net-zero carbon emissions to create an environmental benefit by removing additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Net-Zero carbon emissions mean that an activity releases net-zero carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
Green Manufacturing
Scope 1 & 2
All plants of GWS use clean energy.
With a vision of being Carbon Neutral in Scope 1 & 2 emissions, production by 2025, GWS plans to install additional solar capacity to meet all its energy requirements in a phased manner
LOW EMBODIED CARBON products PARTNERSHIPS
Scope 3
With potential savings of 75-80 % on scope 3A emissions as against the world average, GWS has one of the lowest embodied façade product.
GWS has agreements with the following companies for their low embodied carbon/ carbon neutral products – EPD’s available on request
GWS low carbon Aluminium offering
- World Average: 17 TCO2/T
- GWS OFFERING- 2.00-2.5o tco2/t
- 90 % below Global Average –Epd’s Available
GWS carbon Neutral Silicon offering
- DOWSIL 983- savings of approx 7 kg co2 eq/ 1 kg of SI
- Dowsil 789- savings of approx 7 kg co2 eq/ 1 kg of SI
- 100% below Global Average- EPD’s Available
- GWS low carbon Glass offering
- the carbon footprint reduction of Coated, processed and assembled in insulated glazing unit is around 30% to 40%, depending on the exact IGU composition.
- EPD’s Available
Zero Waste
We follow a well defined waste recycling program ensuring 100 % recycling and zero landfill/ other waste
- Aluminium – All Aluminium scrap goes for recycling with our defined partners.
- Silicone – All silicone waste is disposed off through our recycling program with DOW.
- Glass – Any broken glass/ wastage goes for recycling with our defined processing partners
- Coating – All plants are equipped with ETP plants to convert pretreatment waste discharge into water fit for agriculture and as ground water.
- Electronic Waste – Electronic waste is disposed off as per Government of India-E Waste rules with a Zero Emisssion policy
- Ancillary Waste – Tie Up with the existing industrial areas for proper disposal through available programs