Ford Amps up its Energy Conservation Program With LEDs

Green manufacturing not only benefits the environment by minimizing natural resource use. It also benefits the manufacturers. Ford Motor Co. knows this, and has replaced many of its traditional high-intensity discharge and fluorescent lights with LED fixtures to lower its energy use by 25 percent per vehicle produced. “Moving to LED gives us impressive efficiency improvement,” says George Andraos, director of energy and sustainability at Ford Land, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Co. and a full-service provider of real estate, construction and facility services. “We worked closely with its scientists and suppliers to investigate and follow the rapid development of LED lighting. In 2013, we selected Dialight Corp., a leading LED industrial fixture manufacturer, to develop light fixtures that meet [our] global needs.”