Sustainability

“At Indicold, We CARE ” – its who we are. At Indicold, we care for our partners, communities, customers and the environment.

Our maintenance and energy teams use a continuous improvement process to evaluate facilities and identify opportunities to reduce energy and water usage, while increasing operating efficiencies.

The steps we are undertaking towards a more sustainable future.

• Promotion of adoption of Solar Energy across our Network Locations
• Replacement of CFL Bulbs to LED Lighting
• Energy Audits of our cold storage locations to identify improvements for our electrical systems to improve energy efficiency.
• Operational innovations to ensure that even repeated door openings do not result in loss in efficiency.

Creating a Sustainable Future

A sustainable cold chain requires a sustainable assets for storage and movement of temperature controlled products which are designed for being more efficient and reliable.

Sustainable Warehouses

• Renewable / Clean Energy
• Automation enables the warehouses to operate in the dark
• Minimises door opening and closing to bare minimum ensuring more efficiency
• Skilled manpower is employed

Sustainable Logistics

• Ensuring better utilisation of transportation assets by collaborating for T2T and T2C loads.
• Shifting from diesel to assets which run by electricity, hydrogen or LNG.
• We work closely with our customers and help them analyse transportation data to find possible ways to bring in more efficiency.

We CARE about the Community

• Indicold provides equal employment opportunities.
• We ensure our people get the best PPE gear in the world
• We work with local colleges, universities to help children, college students learn about cold chain.
• We our in the process of establishing a skilling center at our cold storage to train the next generation of cold chain experts.

Why do we all have to act sustainably today ?

One of the most important reasons is the Potential Impacts from Climate Change

Providing temperature-controlled supply chain solutions is an energy intensive activity. The potential financial, strategic and business implications to Indicold of a two degree increase resulting from climate change include:

• Higher energy costs due to extreme weather events, extreme temperatures and/or increased demand for limited resources.
• Higher water costs due to increased scarcity of water sources and/or severe droughts.
• Higher costs of materials due to environmental impacts from extraction and processing of raw materials and production of finished goods (e.g. pallets, corrugate and stretch wrap)
• Lost revenue or higher expenses related to climate change events (e.g. higher insurance cost, uninsured losses, diminished customer retention in areas subject to extreme weather or resource availability constraints)

As a national player in the cold chain space, we seek to address the potential impacts through risk mitigation planning and proactively preparing for the potential effects of climate change.