A growing number of Southern California companies are working to "green" their operations.
That's all well and good. But when a business can also save big money in the process ... well, that's a powerful incentive. And that's exactly what Industry- based cosmetics manufacturer Markwins International Corp. is doing. Markwins just received Orion Energy Systems' Environmental Stewardship Award. Orion designs, manufactures and deploys energy-efficient lighting systems, and Markwins recently replaced 449 high-intensity discharge light fixtures in its 310,0000-square-foot Industry facility with Orion's compact modular, high-intensity fluorescent lights.
"Our whole warehouse management team was excited about this," said Caroline Chiu, who is in charge of facilities and safety for Markwins. "We have logistics, another section that makes merchandising display units for retail stores, and a repackaging division."
As a result of the lighting change, Markwins is expected to cut its light-related electricity costs by 68 percent - from $36,192 a year to $11,440 annually.The Lighting retrofit cost the company $90,500, but Chiu said it was a good investment that has improved working conditions at the plant.
"Our lighting is now very bright," she said. "It's brighter than the higher-voltage lights we were using before, and the radius of light illumination for each light is unexpectedly higher that what I expected. We started this on two aisles as a trial run, but now the whole warehouse has been converted to this lighting."
kevin.smith@sgvn.com
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