Grundfos India restores a 2.5 Acre Pond in Chennai

Partners with Hand In Hand India in the Third Phase of the Pond Restoration

Mumbai, May 26, 2020: Grundfos India, a global leader in pump solutions and water technology today successfully completed the restoration of the Injambakkam pond in Chennai. The pond is situated off the ECR road and is spread across 2.5 acres. Keeping in mind the Covid-19 situation, Grundfos India and Hand In Hand India cancelled the inaugural event to reiterate the importance of social distancing.

This restored pond is now a source of clean water that will help improve the water table in the neighborhood, act as storage area for the surplus water and during rains, help channel excess water to the agricultural land nearby, thereby avoiding flooding. This pond and its surroundings is now also an ideal recreational area with its walkway (also accessible through a ramp) and solar lights for those who wish to walk around it in the early mornings or late evenings. These facilities can be availed after the lockdown is lifted. Due caution will be exercised to ensure social distancing measures are followed.

Realizing the importance of renewing local water sources, Grundfos India has been working on restoring this pond since 2018 in a phased manner along with local NGOs and the community. In the third phase of restoration, the company has collaborated with Hand in Hand India, a leading nonprofit organization to clear the pond’s bed, strengthen the bund and build fences and plantation around the water body.

Saravanan Paneer Selvam, General Manager, Grundfos India said, “Water is at the core of everything we do at Grundfos. Through such initiatives, we hope to revive water bodies in the city and empower local communities to be involved. Our employees have also been closely involved in this initiative through their volunteering efforts. The idea of having lighting and a walking path was to get the cooperation of the local community in taking ownership and looking after the lake.”

Dr. Kalpana Sankar, Chairperson and Managing Trustee, Hand in Hand India, also added “We at Hand In Hand India are happy to have partnered with Grundfos India, a company that clearly understands water. There are about 1000 people who live in and around this pond and they will be positively impacted by this restoration. Besides establishing a committee to maintain the pond, Grundfos India along with Hand In Hand India has created a three-year plan to work closely with the community members to create a self-sustaining pond through the creation of a herbal and vegetable garden and fishery.”

About Grundfos India

Grundfos Pumps India Pvt.Ltd. (Grundfos India) a wholly owned subsidiary of Grundfos Holdings was established on March 13, 1998. Grundfos India is responsible for sales of Grundfos products in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives. Currently, Grundfos India has more than 400 employees and works with 200 distributors and dealers with 26 offices across India. Grundfos India provides energy efficient pumps and smart pumping solutions for various applications – heating and hot water service systems, cooling and air-conditioning systems, industrial applications, pressure boosting and liquid transfer, groundwater supply, domestic water supply, sewage and wastewater, dosing, chlorination systems, disinfection systems and pumps running on renewable energy.

For more information, visit: http://www.grundfos.in/

About Hand in Hand India

Hand in Hand India is a public charitable trust that works to alleviate poverty through a unique integrated community development approach. Registered in 2002, the Organization implements projects in areas of women empowerment, microfinance, job creation, Child labour elimination, education, health, environment, skill building, IT & governance. We started our activities in a small way in Tamil Nadu and began to expand and today, Hand in Hand India works in 16 states in India,

For more information, visit: www.hihindia.org

Earth Hour Day 2020 :: Grundfos India | 28th March 2020

Grundfos Pumps India Pvt. Ltd. (Grundfos India) is a 100% subsidiary of Grundfos – Denmark. Grundfos is a global leader in advanced pump solutions and a trendsetter in water technology. The company contributes to global sustainability by pioneering technologies that improve quality of life for people and care for the planet. Grundfos is also one of the world’s leading pump manufacturers with an annual production of more than 17 million pump units. The company’s main products include circulator pumps for heating and air-conditioning as well as other centrifugal pumps for the industry, water supply, sewage and dosing. Grundfos India started its Indian operations in the year 1998.

Grundfos: Provides Comprehensive Pumping Solutions

Grundfos provides the most energy efficient pumping solutions with the lowest life cycle cost to its users. These pumps cover a broad range of applications and even wider variety of configurations. Grundfos pumps have applications across an entire gamut of areas such as:

Buildings	Water	Industry
·       Family Homes	·      Water Utility	·     Industrial processes
·       Commercial Buildings	·      Water Treatment Solutions	·     Industrial Utilities
·       HVAC OEM	·      Developing World Solutions	·     System Builders & OEMS
·       District Energy	·      Irrigation & Agriculture

                                                                                               

Grundfos has further strengthened its offerings with Grundfos iSOLUTIONS, a holistic approach to creating the most intelligent solution for its customers, based on their unique demands. The company also has solar pump offerings for rural applications to help address the lack of electricity in some of these locations.

Grundfos India also has an impressive range of technologically advanced pump solutions for Smart Cities. With increase in demand and limited resources, intelligent and innovative range of pump solutions such as Demand Driven Distribution (DDD), S Pump and Grundfos Remote Management (GRM) precisely provide the right solution by ensuring minimum utilization of energy and water, while delivering optimal results.

Presene & Reach

Grundfos India’s headquarters is located in Chennai and has 26 branch / home offices. It has an extensive network across the country with more than 200 distributors, Point of Sale outlets and authorized service centres. The company has two production facilities, one adjoined to its corporate office in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and another in Dantali, Gujarat. Grundfos India is also responsible for the business in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal.

Sustainability at its Core

Grundfos strongly believes in enhancing its sustainability profile by offering cutting-edge green solutions, which will contribute to meet a number of global challenges in terms of climate change and water stress. Aligning to its global sustainability focus, Grundfos India is committed towards helping its customers and the nation to conserve water and energy. The company will through all its actions, focus on how it can co-create value with its stakeholders by being a responsible partner for a cleaner and greener planet.

Grundfos India is working towards helping Indian industries and corporates save both energy and water not only through it’s highly energy efficient products but also through the energy and water audits it conducts. These audits are a complete system analysis of the energy and water consumption. Post the analysis the energy audit team recommends the best solutions to right size the systems; thereby helping conserve both these resources.

 The company also contributes towards energy and water conservation by reducing its own impact on the environment. Its headquarters in Chennai is India’s first gold-rated green building (LEED certification by USGBC in 2005) is an Energy Efficient and a Zero liquid discharge facility, with Rainwater harvesting, Solar collectors and photovoltaics. Grundfos India’s factory also received the gold certification in 2011 from the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). In August 2013, the building that houses the Grundfos India Headquarters was elevated to a LEED EB Platinum certification. In February 2020, the factory again received the LEED certification from USGBC, making the entire Grundfos site Platinum rated. Even our facility in Gujarat plays a crucial role in reducing the carbon footprints left behind by us during transportation of our products.

Grundfos India has launched forums on Water and Energy conservation through the social media site, Facebook called ‘Ek Boondh Pani’ and ‘i Save Energy’. The objective of these forums is to create an awareness and to provide a platform for the members to share their suggestions, ideas and facts on conserving Water and Energy.

Grundfos India is also working with students from elementary schools to universities to spread awareness on sustainability (energy and water conservation). The company encourages school visits to its facility to showcase the Green Building concept. Through these students the company is influencing their family, friends and communities to conserve water and energy as well.

Corporate Social Responsibility at Grundfos India

Grundfos India’s CSR initiatives focus on sustainability, energy & water conservation, health & hygiene, education and livelihood. The company’s employees are also involved closely with some of these initiatives and volunteer their time and expertise to help the local communities.

To know more about Grundfos India, please visit the company’s website: www.in.grundfos.com

World Water Day 2020 :Because tomorrow is today Grundfos India launches a World Water Day video campaign to promote the need to conserve water

This World Water Day, Grundfos India, a global leader in advanced pump solutions and a trendsetter in water technology, has taken proactive steps to create awareness about water conservation.

In line with this year’s World Water Day theme ‘Nature and Climate Change’, Grundfos India has released short, informative videos that encourage viewers to conserve water. The theme of this campaign is ‘Because tomorrow is today’, highlighting the importance of saving this precious resource for the future generations. These videos feature instances from our daily life on how water gets wasted and ways to address it by taking simple measures.

These videos can be viewed from Grundfos’ YouTube page:

• It’s all connected - Water belongs to all of us. Use it responsibly
• Saving a drop today can quench your thirst tomorrow

Considering that water and energy are interlinked, Grundfos has also advocated the sustainable use of energy resources through the below video:

• Use energy efficiently. Small acts can make a big difference

Commenting on this campaign, Saravanan Panneer Selvam, General Manager, INDO Region, Grundfos India said, “With a booming world population, the world needs new ways to better utilize its limited resources like water. Through this campaign we would like to address the growing water crisis by highlighting the urgency to act now. The future of our next generations lies in our hands and how we best protect and conserve our water resources today.”

About Grundfos India

Grundfos Pumps India Pvt.Ltd. (Grundfos India) a wholly owned subsidiary of Grundfos Holdings was established on March 13, 1998. Grundfos India is responsible for sales of Grundfos products in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives. Currently, Grundfos India has more than 400 employees and works with 200 distributors and dealers with 26 offices across India. Grundfos India provides energy efficient pumps and smart pumping solutions for various applications – heating and hot water service systems, cooling and air-conditioning systems, industrial applications, pressure boosting and liquid transfer, groundwater supply, domestic water supply, sewage and wastewater, dosing, chlorination systems, disinfection systems and pumps running on renewable energy.

For more information, visit: http://www.grundfos.in/