EXPERT OPINION
That was the conversation on launch day – customers were discovering that we ' ve got this complete solution of quality brands and they ' ve been using one or two of them for years . Now suddenly , they can deal with the same company .
How does Legrand make its products more energy efficient ?
One of our CSRs ( corporate social responsibilities ), as challenging as it is , is to work with delivery drivers and transport organisations to see if there ' s the possibility of using zero emission vehicles to look at things like reduced numbers of deliveries or combined deliveries to us or to customers , thereby reducing carbon footprint .
We are always very conscientious about what we can do as a business with recycling . That ' s a big one for us . We don ' t have any of our sites with renewable energy , unfortunately , but it is a market that we are always interested in because if you look at all of our products , we ' re all about energy efficiency .
We ' re all about trying to make sure that customers don ' t over-design or overspecify ; they think they have to buy everything on day one . What they end up doing on day two is realising ‘ actually , it ' s not really what I wanted ’, so we need to change things and thereby it becomes a massive waste product .
We put this philosophy forward of , ‘ why don ’ t you put part of it in today , you can put the rest in on day two , but you can also adapt it ’ – it ' s completely flexible to the offer we ' re putting on the table .
Jean-Pierre Burger , Business Unit Director for Critical Power UK and Iceland , Legrand UK and Data Centre Solutions
Your day two might be planned for five years ’ time but the market might change in maybe 10 years ’ time , so the technology will have changed . Now they ( customers ) are looking for something completely different .
So , what we ' re saying , is put the backbone of it in – whether it be a UPS , transformer , busbar or cabinets – and we ' ll grow with you . That way you can www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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