Elgi Equipments Limited announced the outcome of its successful partnership with Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF), one of the largest textile groups in South India. ELGi?s air audit program helped ITF member companies to reduce average compressed air energy costs up to 43 per cent. ITF is a 500-member strong organization covering all textile operations concentrated in Tamil Nadu. ITF?s mandate is to promote the textile sector. Its 500 members collaborate in an environment of confidentiality and mutual respect to share best practices to improve the industry?s operational standards. Externally, the group?s leadership partners with the government to raise awareness of challenges facing the industry.

To support the textile industry?s focus on energy reduction, ELGi partnered with the ITF to design a comprehensive energy program. The program included information sessions for owners and general managers on the compressed air best practices, practical training sessions for textile maintenance engineers, and critically, free of cost air audit programs that helped recognise significant cost savings.

On the partnership, Anvar Jay Varadaraj, Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications, ELGi said, ?Our relationship with ITF has been a resounding success owing to mutual respect and recognition of value. For ELGi, ITF members have provided generous access to how textile customers are managing their compressed air systems, while mills have benefited from our expertise. With ITF, we?ve had an opportunity to directly engage with textile CEOs to understand their manufacturing challenges.?

Speaking at the event, Prabhu Damodaran, Secretary, ITF said, ?In our efforts to compete in the global market, this relationship focused on intelligent energy monitoring and optimising air consumption levels. ELGi enabled us to bring about improved manufacturing efficiency and cost leadership through energy conservation.?

An Air Audit is a review of an operation?s use of compressed air. The audit evaluates both the generation and distribution of compressed air. A review of generation evaluates the compressor?s performance compared to original specifications, energy consumption, current condition, and appropriateness for the application.

ELGi recently announced the launch of Air Alert, a free of cost sim-based data transmission service that will monitor a compressor?s critical parameters to ensure optimum energy consumption and compressor failure prevention. ELGi has committed to 500 Air Alert equipped machines by the end of December 2017 and to date, 21 ITF customers have been Air Alert equipped, according to the company.