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Sustainability is of the utmost importance to Blåkläder, both in our day-to-day operations in Sweden and in the manufacturing that takes place in other parts of the world. It’s our responsibility as a company to create a secure and safe working environment for employees and to minimise the environmental impact of the manufacturing of materials and components. But we also regard the factories that produce our garments as an important part of our long-term sustainability efforts.

 

 

WORKWEAR BY SOLAR ENERGY

Electricity is a shortage in many places in the world and Sri Lanka and Myanmar, where the majority of our garments are manufactured, isn’t an exception. The electricity that is available often comes from combustion of oil or diesel and the supply is anything but reliable.

A very large proportion of the world's energy supply comes from thermal power plants that converts the steam into electricity via steam turbines. These power plants most often depends of fossil fuels; based on crude oil.

Besides the fact that the oil is regarded a limited resource, which eventually will end, combustion is also has an inevitable environmental impact that affects climate change and global warming. In addition to the environmental impact of the steam turbines, the electricity from steam turbines is also costly, but still necessary for people's everyday life as well as for manufacturing industries and other types of enterprises.

A never-ending source of energy
The sun is an environmentally sustainable and almost endless source of energy, and sunshine is plentiful in both Sri Lanka and Myanmar. With this in mind, we have invested significantly in solar panels in one of the production units in Sri Lanka.

When the sun hits the cells in a solar panel, an electrical charge occurs between the front and back of the solar cell. A direct current is materialized which is fed via an inverter and converted to alternating current. The alternating current can then be used to supply the factory with electricity without the use of fossil fuels. In the future, we expect at least 70% of the plant's energy consumption to be covered by solar energy. The installment of solar panels will provide the plant with a steady power supply and at the same time contribute to reduced environmental impact. It creates a mutually beneficial effect, both for the company itself and for the world at large.

The first solar panels were installed in 2018 in Sri Lanka and Myanmar and we consider these first installations a starting point. During 2019 more factories will follow and an increasingly growing share of Blåkläder garments will be produced on clean solar energy.

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