Novelis Inc

<figure class="image image_resized image-style-align-left" style="width:40%;"><img src="https://developcms.adityabirla.com/uploads/jlr_novelis_award_f364401832.webp" alt="jlr-novelis-award.webp"></figure>In recent years, the automotive industry has faced a dilemma: how to develop lighter internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles while also reducing the carbon emissions they produce.Novelis Inc., a leading materials partner for the automotive industry, has been helping automakers strike a balance between these two goals by developing products that improve its, as well as its customers’, revenue and sustainability quotient.One way the company has achieved this is by offering aluminium alloys as a replacement to steel for creating lighter body panels for vehicles. Further, Novelis has been advocating the use of recycled aluminium since it requires only 5% of the energy needed to produce primary aluminium. This switch offers the benefits of both strength and sustainability.<div>Collaboration is critical to Novelis’ value maximisation journey. In 2013, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) became one of the first automakers to collaborate with Novelis to utilise an aluminium alloy solution with a high recycled content. The collaboration enabled over $1 million in savings and an 80% reduction in CO2 equivalent emissions over standard road transport.Novelis has also worked with other automotive giants in CLR integration. Ford, for instance, recycles over 90% of its scrap using Novelis’ CLR system. Nissan has implemented CLR across its US and UK facilities. Audi, BMW and Volvo are also implementing it in their European operations.&nbsp;Novelis’ CLR system is a rare example of collaborative value-generation that bridges the needs of all stakeholders. By lowering costs, maintaining high safety and quality, and reducing environmental impact, the company has set the global automotive sector on the path to sustainable growth.</div>&nbsp;<div><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img class="image_resized" src="https://developcms.adityabirla.com/uploads/Novelis_recycle_2_52d7c65d23.webp" alt="Novelis-recycle-2.webp"></figure></div>

Together with its automotive partners, Novelis has created the world’s largest closed-loop recycling system that takes back its customers' aluminium scrap and ploughs it back into the supply chain

Designing to dismantle

Group Purpose

Aditya Birla Capital Limited (ABCL)

<img class="image-style-align-left" src="https://developcms.adityabirla.com/uploads/health_that_endures_4e95965690.webp" alt="health-that-endures.webp" srcset="https://developcms.adityabirla.com/uploads/thumbnail_health_that_endures_4e95965690.webp 202w" sizes="100vw" width="202">The #JumpForHealth campaign is special in many ways. It encourages a positive attitude towards health, it promotes healthy behaviour, and it opens up new horizons for people with disabilities.The campaign was launched in 2017 by Aditya Birla Health Insurance (ABHICL) as part of its health-first initiative, a movement that encourages people to prioritise physical and mental health. What sets the campaign apart is its social responsibility angle. People celebrate the act of jumping as they realise how this simple act can make someone else's life better. The reason: for every 10,000 jumps, ABHICL donates a prosthetic leg for the differently-abled.As the world went digital in the post-pandemic era, the #JumpForHealth campaign took on a deeper meaning as it invited people to become more aware of their physical health. In the 2022 edition, the #JumpForHealth campaign followed the 'freedom' theme, encouraging people to adopt positive habits for healthy living.Through the years, the campaign has sparked much love and excitement. In 2022, over a span of 40 days, 5,455 participants contributed more than 8,956,200 jumps! This historic achievement was even captured in a new Guinness World Record as the 'Largest online video album of people jumping in the air'. As a result of this overwhelming public response, 895 prosthetic legs were donated to help the differently-abled walk again!Celebrities like Sanjay Dutt, Mandira Bedi, and Remo D'Souza have actively participated and encouraged others to jump along with them. Since it began, the campaign has received over 32.62 million jumps and ABHICL has donated 3,262 prosthetic legs, thus forever changing thousands of lives.The campaign's feel-good, feel-healthy message builds enduring bonds in the community. It's a passion that extends beyond the individual and encompasses community health and well-being.

When Madura Fashion & Lifestyle (MF&L) started its sustainability journey, it naturally decided to follow the Aditya Birla Group''s Sustainability Framework.

Health that endures

Hindalco Industries Limited

<img class="image_resized image-style-align-left" style="width:50%;" src="https://developcms.adityabirla.com/uploads/when_the_enterprising_spirit_shines_bright_557077fda8.webp" alt="When-the-enterprising-spirit-shines-bright">It's not very common to hear of an aluminium manufacturing company filing patents for innovation. Yet, in one year alone (FY2020-21), Hindalco invested over INR 7.9 billion in R&amp;D, filed 259 new patents, and launched 32 new products. Hindalco's relentless focus on shaping new horizons of growth is revolutionising the global metals industry.Many of these innovations are designed to cater to the B2B segment. For instance, Hindalco has developed a tough new alloy called Duranium that gives windows as much as 35% greater strength as compared to existing options.A new aluminium zirconium alloy is used in HTLS wire rods to make power conductors more efficient. A unique deep white, clean, and translucent alumina hydrate, branded ONYX, finds application in the cast polymer industry.When the pandemic created demand for stronger semi-rigid containers, Hindalco’s team developed 3SRC, a new alloy with higher strength and a lower energy footprint. With this exercise, it discovered ways to accumulate a high amount of recycled content and utilise it across multiple customised packaging applications.The company has also found multiple methods to reduce waste. It launched a system to treat phosphogypsum — an industrial by-product — and made it suitable for use in the cement industry.Hindalco has been working to modernise freight transportation for the Indian Railways. A new-generation of aluminium wagons has been made from high-strength aluminium alloy and extrusions. Around 180 tonnes lighter than existing steel rakes, each of these wagons can carry up to 10% more payload while consuming less energy. More importantly, it can save over 14,500 tonnes of CO2, thereby contributing to the nation’s carbon goals in a big way.Hindalco's innovations also impact the life of consumers, such as aluminium alloy circles that make coated cookware stronger and LPG cylinders safer. Cans are one of the key applications of aluminium alloys globally. However, the know-how to develop world-class can body stock speedily and at high volumes did not exist in India earlier. Hindalco introduced this technology to India.The display of entrepreneurial spirit in making products that meet the constantly evolving needs of the industry is what makes Hindalco a global leader that stays resilient and sustainable.

Shaping a better tomorrow is the aspiration that drives Hindalco's innovations and future-ready product developments

When the enterprising spirit shines bright

<img class="image_resized image-style-align-left" style="width:50%;" src="https://developcms.adityabirla.com/uploads/dash_of_red_abundance_of_green_3a0efc4c55.webp" alt="Red-abundance-of-green">Red mud is an industrial waste product and an inescapable reality of aluminium manufacturing. Also known as bauxite residue, red mud is generated in millions of tonnes every year in alumina refineries and stored on hundreds of acres of land. The disposal of red mud has been a legacy environmental challenge for the industry worldwide.&nbsp;Until Hindalco came up with a solution.Hindalco looked at red mud for its intrinsic value. After all, it is high in minerals such as aluminium and iron oxides. Hindalco found that it could be used in road construction or brickmaking. However, these solutions were not scalable. What was needed was a scalable solution.The Hindalco team was aware that the cement industry often uses bauxite in the manufacturing of cement. Moreover, there are significant similarities in the properties of bauxite and red mud.The next step was convincing cement manufacturers that red mud was a good alternative to bauxite. Hindalco worked with the cement sector to find solutions to several technical and operational challenges. Issues with moisture content, alkalinity, flowability, and transportation were resolved one by one.Hindalco also engaged with the Indian Railways and NITI Aayog for lower freight rates to transport higher volumes of red mud. The company partnered with top cement manufacturers in India to transport all the red mud produced at its plants in Renukoot, Muri, and Belagavi to dozens of cement plants across India.This move is a stellar example of sustainability. It is a scalable business solution that also helps in achieving environmental goals. It blends circular economy principles with value maximisation, reduces business risk for aluminium manufacturers, and reduces the need to mine natural resources. The measure has boosted Hindalco’s international stature and brought it recognition as the World’s Most Sustainable Aluminium Company for three years in a row in S&amp;P Dow Jones’ Sustainability Indices report.This innovative solution from Hindalco to deal with a 130-year-old industry-wide challenge is one that is a win-win for society, the environment, and two large industrial sectors.

By finding a use for its waste product, red mud, in the cement sector, Hindalco enhanced the economic and environmental value of its operations

Dash of red, abundance of green

UltraTech Cement Limited

<img class="image_resized image-style-align-left" style="width:50%;" src="https://developcms.adityabirla.com/uploads/leading_through_innovation_7d9f300f97.webp" alt="Leading-through-innovation">India's infrastructure sector has grown at a stupendous pace in recent decades. One company that has helped drive this growth through its many contributions is UltraTech, the cement flagship of Aditya Birla Group. From its humble roots in the mid-1980s, UltraTech is today India’s largest cement manufacturer and among the top worldwide. A significant share of the credit goes to the company’s ability to adopt multiplicity in its business model.Diversification and product innovation have been central to UltraTech’s approach from day one. From a 0.5 tonne grey cement plant in Madhya Pradesh in 1985, UltraTech today produces over 120 million tonnes of cement, both grey and white, in addition to its thriving concrete business. Its deep understanding of the market has allowed UltraTech to rapidly enter new segments within existing verticals as well as to research new products. For instance, the company currently offers corrosion-resistant cement and concrete, 3-D printable concrete mix designs, smart additives for cement, and more.The company’s use of innovative forms extends to more than just products. UltraTech pioneered the first pan-India multi-category retail chain to provide individual homebuilders with a one-stop-shop solution. Known as UltraTech Building Solutions (UBS), the launch marked the company’s transition from a manufacturer to a building solutions provider.Another shift has been UltraTech’s ecosystem development strategy. Under this strategy, it has introduced a slew of digital platforms for key stakeholders like dealers, retailers, masons, contractors, and architects. It has also launched programmes to upskill masons and contractors in technical aspects such as construction planning and methods, material quality, safety precautions, and so on.Construction players worldwide are under pressure to become more eco-friendly. UltraTech has already moulded itself into a sustainable avatar by committing to achieving net-zero concrete and meeting its entire electricity requirement through renewable power by 2050. It has also replaced 5% of conventional fuels in its cement kilns with alternative fuels, namely industrial and municipal solid waste, as a step towards greater circularity in its business.By eschewing rigidity and reinventing itself in multiple forms with a focus on agility, innovation, and customer-centricity, UltraTech has cemented an exceptional story of sustained market leadership in the construction sector.

Constant innovation and reinvention has helped UltraTech Cement meet consumer expectations and consolidate its domestic and global market leadership

Leading through innovation

<img class="image-style-align-left" src="https://developcms.adityabirla.com/uploads/saga_of_the_cochlear_implant_7bcce15010.webp" alt="saga-of-the-cochlear-implant.webp" srcset="https://developcms.adityabirla.com/uploads/thumbnail_saga_of_the_cochlear_implant_7bcce15010.webp 229w" sizes="100vw" width="229">Unbelievable but true: we have the highest number of children born with severe auditory impairment. 4 newborns in every 1000 births cannot hear, and every year millions of babies add to our demography. Modern biotechnology has come to the rescue in the form of the cochlear implant, an electronic device that bypasses one’s ears and stimulates the auditory nerve, sending the signal straight to the brain. It works as a permanent cure for hearing disability.Listen to Padma Shri Dr. Milind Kirtane, among the world’s topmost ENT surgeons, whose record of embedding the cochlear device in children is unparalleled. “Deafness is as severe a handicap as blindness, perhaps worse. In the words of Helen Keller, ‘Blindness separates people from things, but deafness separates people from people.’ Children born with profound deafness are often normal in every other aspect. If their hearing is restored, they can achieve everything that other children can. A cochlear implant is the answer for many such children, but is often out of their reach due to its huge financial implications. By giving them the gift of hearing, Aditya Birla Group has transformed their lives, and the lives of their parents and the entire family. It has helped them join the mainstream of society and become contributing citizens.” His assistant, Dr. Nishita Mohandas, further states, “Aditya Birla Group’s contribution has kindled the spirit of humanity, opening a whole new chapter in their lives. Aditya Birla Group is indeed a powerful, compassionate force for good.”What has Aditya Birla Group done? From a world of silence, from the inability to hear, to living only on actions, and from this state of despair to transition to the sound of music, sharing stories with one another of adventures and misadventures through speech and sound, is the Group’s one big humble CSR endeavour, under the aegis of the Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development, chaired by Mrs. Rajashree Birla. The unflinching financial support of Essel Mining and Aditya Birla Capital goes a long way. Each cochlear implant has a huge implementation cost along with surgery.Parents of over 200 children who were aided with the cochlear implant surgery by Dr. Kirtane, had felt cheated in life when their children were born deaf and mute. They felt that life had thrown them a lot of curveballs. They could not connect with their children. Now, their lives have undergone a 180-degree change for good.Its touching to see the unmistakable whiff of joy as both parents and children witness the glorious moment of transformation.The Group’s commitment to the cochlear implant project continues. Furthermore, Aditya Birla Group reaches out to over millions of people through its 24 hospitals, 6,000 medical camps, and other healthcare initiatives. Numbers count a lot. But the gurgle of laughter of these children means much more.– Dr. Pragnya Ram, Group Executive President - CSR, Legacy Documentation &amp; Archives

Under the aegis of the Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development, Aditya Birla Group has given the gift of hearing to hundreds of children through its cochlear implant project