• O acordo com o  Fideicomisso para a Poupança de Energia Eléctrica procura implementar programas de poupança energética.
• O acordo é aplicado em todas as instalações da Vitro no México e são esperadas poupanças no consumo de cerca de 5% na primeira fase.

Pablo Realpozo and Enrique Osorio.

For the purpose of making all of the industrial facilities of Vitro in Mexico more energy efficient through the reduction in the amount of greenhouse emissions, the company signed last January an agreement with the Electric Energy Savings Mexican Commission (FIDE).

The document specifies that Vitro, in addition to developing energy savings programs, will conduct massive awareness programs on the subject, will promote the substitution of high energy consuming equipment for more energy efficient ones and will expand the technical training of its affiliates on the subject of energy efficiency in all of its installations in Mexico.

For its part FIDE will promote energy savings programs within Vitro’s manufacturing facilities, to workers and suppliers and will help finance the purchase of high energy efficient equipment.

The agreement, which becomes effective today, was signed by Enrique Osorio, Chief Financial Officer and Alejandro Sánchez Mújica, Executive Vice-President Legal and General Council, on behalf of Vitro and by Pablo Realpozo Del Castillo, General Director of FIDE and José Luis Hernández Galán, Assistant Director for Regional Projects and Development of the same organization.

“During the current year we will be conducting energy diagnostics on which we will base the action plans that will allow us to achieve the desired energy savings in our plants. Nevertheless, in this first stage we are expecting to be able to achieve energy savings in the range of 3% to 5%”, stated Osorio.

He added that the projects undertaken in the Vitro manufacturing plants may include energy diagnostics and the replacement of inefficient equipment with more energy efficient ones, which will be financed by FIDE at preferential rates that will be paid on the basis of the realized energy savings.

Sánchez Mújica pointed out that “through more efficient energy savings, we will avoid thousands of tons of harmful contaminant emissions and greenhouse effect gases that contribute to global warming”.

This initiative will energy savings in the Vitro plants.

Pablo Realpozo stated that this initiative will permit the implementation of action plans for electrical energy savings in the Vitro plants, engage the use of highly energy efficient equipment and promote the creation of a culture of energy savings among company employees while significantly reducing energy consumption without compromising the quality of the products that Vitro produces.

“Thanks to this agreement, the Vitro companies not only will become more competitive by reducing electric energy costs through integration of state of the art technology, but they will be contributing to the preservation and conservation of the environment”, he assured.

The signing of this agreement adds to the multiple efforts of Vitro to promote sustainable development by implementing initiatives that seek to increase our competitiveness while at the same time promote a cleaner environment and a safer work place.

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