Sustainable business

Why is sustainability important to us?

• The market demands it
• Our values require it
• The business can't survive long-term without it

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Waste disposal

We are aiming to reduce material waste and the amount of material that we dispose of in landfill sites. The result of this has been a 37% reduction in the waste we send to landfill over a 3 year period.

Material reduction

For both primary and secondary packaging we are constantly looking at reducing the amount of glass, metal, plastic and cardboard. We sell packaging for re-use, we re-cycle waste material, plastic and cardboard and where possible we source locally to reduce our input mileage and we have an aerosol recycle scheme. We also have increased the use of post consumer recycled material.

Energy consumption

We have some very familar approaches to energy consumption such as, variable speed motors and server consolidation and virtualisation and also some very industry specific approaches like the use of cold processing technology and heat recovery and insulation. This has enabled a 25% reduction on energy consumption over the last 5 years.

Water consumption

We have employed a variety of approaches to water usage reduction, starting with some changes in our overflow controls on some of our process equipment and proactive changes in our sanitation processes. We have installed a modern reverse osmosis water plant with added controls, all these attributes contribute to the success in reducing water consumption with a noticable figure of 64% reduction in 5 years.