DCO Sustainability Goals
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Day-Brite Capri Omega (DCO) is making a fundamental commitment to protect the environment through the continuous improvement of our energy performance. We believe that an organization-wide energy management approach will help us enhance our financial health, increase our value, and aid in preserving the environment for future generations.

Sustainability goals

  • To support our responsible growth as a manufacturer by developing green manufacturing processes and other environmental strategies
  • As a lighting component manufacturer, leveraging our innovations to develop sustainable lighting - lighting that meets users needs with the least consumption of energy and other resources.
    • We believe in two main sustaining principles: optimization & minimization.
  • Optimization of our manufacturing, logistics and warehousing processes along with our commitment to continue to introduce new products that support our efforts in improving the environment of our customers, employees and their communities by their enhanced energy efficient performance.
  • Minimization of the resources used in our operations inclusive e of the purchasing of our components through an optimized supplier chain.

    • In 2007, DCO became an Energy Star Partner where it committed its Executive Management team to initially develop proper metrics to benchmark its energy consumption tracking progress and then set the goal of reducing its energy consumption by 25% in 5 years.

    By participating as an elite member of the Energy Star Partners program, DCO can leverage the knowledge from those businesses in different industries that have managed successful energy reduction programs.

    In today's business, we cannot afford to focus only on profits. We therefore feel that sustainability can support our healthy financial performance along with the company's leadership and development in strategic economic, social, and environmental programs surpassing industry standards. See below the DCO Sustainability Strategy 2006-2007.

    2006 thru 2007 Sustainability Strategies

    Energy Consumption – Absolute: Our energy consumption and the breakdown of their consumption by type will be monitored and benchmarked in our facilities in Tupelo and Sparta which represent approximately over 800,000 square feet of manufacturing space dealing with over 300 suppliers.

    2008 DCO Cost of Energy

    Environmental Impact from Electric & Natural Gas Energy Consumption- The calculated emissions from energy consumed in pounds of CO2 emitted by natural gas and electric energy..

    DCO Operations Emissions

    ((Key Performance Indicators – KPIs: Cost of Energy per Unit of Production - Prior to 2008, the energy data did not use the same KPI denominator (units). Sparta facility included fully-completed units (fixtures) and excluded component parts, while Tupelo included all fixtures and component parts as their units. This discrepancy was addressed in 2008 when monthly tracking efforts were initiated for both plants in 2008.))

    Average KPI 2005 - 2007

    ((The calculations show an overall increase of 8% in the total amount of energy consumed per unit of production from 2006 to 2007 mainly due to a reduction in the 2007 overall units. Aggregate energy intensity for 2007 in kBtu/total output was 18.47 vs. 17.12 in 2006.))

    DCO Operations Emissions

    Last Revision Date: July 9, 2008