A DUBLIN company is reducing a major supermarket chain's carbon footprint.
Sandyford-based Gaelite Signs is replacing Tesco's neon supermarket signs throughout Ireland with more "environmentally friendly and more cost effective" LEDs (light emitting diodes).
Research carried out by Tesco showed that its current annual carbon emissions in Ireland - caused by the use of neon lights - is equal to a person taking a return flight from Dublin to New York 335 times a year, producing 434,960kg of carbon emissions.
The new LED signs will be equivalent to a person travelling from Dublin to New York just 19 times a year, with a reduced carbon emission output of 24,961kg, Gaelite said.
"Our LEDs will make a major contribution to reducing Tesco's annual energy bill in Ireland", said Finbarr Clarkson, Managing Director of Gaelite.
Michael McNerney, Energy Manager of Tesco Ireland, said: "Tesco is determined to reduce its carbon emissions...replacing our neon signs with LEDs will make a major contribution."
Gaelite Signs,based in Sandyford Industrial Estate, has been operating for 75 years.
The firm, which employs 35 people, is the only Irish member of Visotec, a European umbrella organisation for sign manufacturers. It worked with British member ASG in replacing Tesco's neon signs throughout the North of Ireland.
By Michael Lavery
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