Lafarge Africa Plc has won the Businessday Top 25 Most Innovative Companies and Institutions Award 2017. The firm emerged as the most innovative in the manufacturing sector for its development of alternative fuel supply and utilisation system as substitute to fossil fuel.
Vipul Agrawal, marketing director, Lafarge Africa Plc, expressed satisfaction for the recognition. He explained that Lafarge developed the alternative fuel supply and utilisation system because it wanted to make a difference in its operations in line with the global sustainability roadmap of the LafargeHolcim Group and to give its stakeholders more reason to believe in the brand.
“Our Biomass Alternative Fuel Feeding System which was commissioned on September 21st, 2016, is focused on developing an alternative fuel (primarily biomass) supply and utilisation system to partly substitute the use of fossil fuels at our Ewekoro and Sagamu plant facilities. It has been quite successful and we are motivated to replicate it in our other operations,” Agrawal said.
He added that the award would further encourage his firm to continue creating value to the communities it serves.