Sustainability

Crafted with care. Driven by change.

Great yarn comes with great responsibility. At Ganga Acrowools, we're working to reduce our environmental footprint. Today, 11% renewable energy and 35% recycled water mark our progress — with more to come

Aerial view of the Ganga Acrowools factory in Ludhiana

11%

of our total energy comes from renewables today

35%

of the water we use is recycled

100%

biological effluent treatment plant in use

20,000

trees planted across our operations

Energy

We are swapping coal for rice straw.

Today, most of the electricity we use is bought from the Punjab state grid (PSPCL), which draws predominantly on thermal generation. We want that to change, and we are building the capacity to change it.

We already have 1,565 kW of installed solar capacity. The larger step is a biomass project to generate electricity, in which we have invested USD 8 million. It will burn waste rice straw in place of coal, and the steam it produces will serve our dye house. We are targeting completion within two years.

Once the plant is running, farmers within a 20 km radius will no longer need to burn rice straw in their fields each November.

Boiler and rice husk fuel area at the Ganga Acrowools factory

Share of our energy that is renewable

11% today

90% target, within two years of the biomass project’s completion

Daily power use

~170,000 kWh

average daily consumption

Solar installed

1,565 kW

already installed

Biomass turbine

10.8 MW gross

Under implementation; 6–8.5 MW net

Straw burning

20 km radius

Eliminating the need for annual rice straw burning

Water

Dyeing needs water. We are working to reuse more of it.

Our dye-house expansion is being directed toward Zero Liquid Discharge, an approach in which wastewater is treated and reused rather than released. The effluent treatment plant we run today is 100% biological.