TMEIC India factory team receiving the award

TMEIC Industrial Systems India Private Limited (hereinafter, “TMEIC India”), a Group company of Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (hereinafter, “TMEIC”; President & CEO Masahiko Yamawaki), announced that the company has won the 5 Star Rating Award for Excellence in Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) practices and the First Place Award in the category of Manufacturing-Engineering / Electrical Appliances during the Confederation of Indian Industry – Southern Region (CII-SR) EHS Excellence Awards 2018. The winners were selected by 35 EHS experts and four Jury members from among 154 participating companies across South India, after assessing factory sites and benchmarking the EHS practices with others in respective sectors. Further, as an indicator of the assessment the companies are awarded with a “Star Rating.”

CII’s Leadership and Excellence Award in Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) aims to recognize, motivate and facilitate companies to adopt innovative practices in EHS, with a desire “to empower and enable a safe work environment for employees and society as a whole and put people before profits.”

“The EHS certificate with a 5-star rating is an assurance of TMEIC’s commitment to the environment, our people and product reliability and quality,” said Mr. Hemant Joshi, Managing Director of TMEIC India.

TMEIC’s green factory in Tumakuru has achieved Carbon & Water neutrality through rainwater harvesting, zero discharge, natural air ventilators, natural lighting and in-house solar power generation.