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In the five years since launching its Twenty Step
Environmental Management Programme Duraweld has
reduced its carbon footprint by a massive 36%, with a 21%
reduction in 2011 alone.
To celebrate the first five years of its programme, Duraweld’s
in-house Green Team has released figures showing how the
company’s environmental impact has been reduced in all areas,
from the introduction of sustainable manufacturing processes to
streamlined office printing. Using January 2007 as the baseline,
highlights include:
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gas usage reduced by 44%;
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electricity usage reduced by 27%;
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water usage reduced by 28%;
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A4 paper purchased reduced by 37%;
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cardboard boxes purchased reduced by 50%;
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number of pallets purchased reduced by 48%;
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landfill skips reduced by 75%; and
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waste for recycling reduced by 20%.
In addition, Duraweld has set-up a Bicycle User Group to give
practical support to employees who cycle to work; bought hybrid
company cars; promoted the use of Skype to reduce the need for
face-to-face meetings; become involved in local ‘green initiatives’
including the North Yorkshire Green Business Club and the ‘Dell’ve
into Nature’ project; and funded Gold Standard Carbon Offsetting
projects through co2balance.
Duraweld achieved ISO 14001 accreditation in 2008 and in
2011 was ranked 28th in the
Sunday Times Best Green Company
list, 11 places higher than the year before.
Foremans Relocatable Building
Systems, the UK’s largest supplier
of recycled and refurbished modular
buildings, is doubling its stock
of single modular buildings in
anticipation of increased demand
from growing businesses.
Available in sizes from 10ft to 60ft
long, the pre-owned Portakabins are ideal
for businesses that wish to expand yet
keep overheads to a minimum.
MikeWilliams, managing director of
Foremans Relocatable Building Systems,
said: “We are the largest stockist of
pre-owned Portakabin buildings in the
UK, simply because we believe they
are the best.When you are recycling
modular buildings, it is really important
the products were manufactured to
the highest quality standards and are
fully traceable. Single modular buildings
manufactured by Portakabin all have
serial numbers, but that is not always the
case with modular buildings from other
sources.”
In addition to its range of single
cabins, Foremans provides recycled and
fully refurbished modular buildings for
purchase or hire in single and multi-
storey configurations.
www.foremansbuildings.info
Duraweld celebrates five
years of green thinking
Pre-owned buildings for growing businesses
greenAgenda…
Carbon neutral
packages
FedEx Express has become the
first global express transportation
company to offer carbon neutral
envelope shipping at no extra cost to
the customer, following an agreement
with BP Target Neutral to offset
carbon emissions from more than 200
million envelopes shipped annually.
It will do this by helping to fund
a series of low carbon development
projects that reduce or prevent
carbon from being released into the
atmosphere. These include a biogas farm
facility in the Netherlands; reforestation
in the Tanzanian Southern Highlands;
and a landfill gas collection system at
Thailand’s first sanitary landfill.
In its role as the Official Carbon
Offset Partner for London 2012, BP
Target Neutral is inviting London 2012
ticketholders to set a new world record
for the largest number of individuals
to offset their travel carbon to a single
event – at no cost to themselves.
BP’s not-for-profit organisation
will calculate the travel-related CO
2
emissions of ticketholders coming to
the Games and provide the funds to
offset them.
Arjowiggins Graphic has topped
the table for fine papers in the
secondWWF Environmental Paper
Company Index. The ranking of
19 paper manufacturers in the
fine paper, tissue and packaging
sectors rates companies according
to their record in fibre sourcing,
emissions from manufacturing
processes and corporate
transparency. Arjowiggins Graphic
recorded the best results in the
fine paper sector with a score of
73.86% and was also included in
the tissue results.
Arjowiggins targets 23%
carbon reduction
Arjowiggins Graphic has followed the example of companies
like Coca-Cola, Volvo, Sony and Nike and joined theWWF
International Climate Savers program, which sets CO
2
reduction targets in conjunction with independent technical
experts.
In its case, Arjowiggins Graphic has a commitment to cut
absolute emissions by 23% from 2007 levels by 2014, with
a secondary target of a 10% reduction for each ton of paper
produced.
The paper maker expects to achieve these savings through
an increase in recycled paper volumes; the use of wood residue
rather than natural gas to produce steam at the Dalum mill; and
the replacement of synthetic binders with natural ones.
www.panda.org/climatesavers
Green paper for
digital presses
Following the recent addition of Save!
and Image Recycled to its portfolio
of green office papers, Antalis
Macnaughton has announced the
first 100% Digital and 100% Green
coated paper for wet and dry digital
printing technologies including HP
Indigo presses.
Suitable for newsletters, brochures,
on-demand books, calendars, magazines,
cards, invitations and other applications,
Digigreen is a premium, multifunction
coated paper that comes in gloss and
silk finishes in a range of sizes and
weights from 100-350gsm.
Environmental accreditations include
100% FSC Mix Credit
certification, European
Ecolabel and NAPM 50%
Recycled certification
(minimum 50% post-
consumer fibres).
Duraweld Environmental Co-ordinator Victoria Pitts with some
factory recycling bins