Bowater Building Products Ltd works closely with the Carbon Trust to reduce energy consumption and our carbon footprint. As a result of the recommendations made by Carbon Trust and the energy awareness programme that we have underway within the company, we have managed to save some 11,000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide between March 2005 and March 2008. We have achieved this reduction as follows:- Every member of staff attended energy awareness training
- Members of staff carried out energy audit, of their working area to identify energy and carbon savings
- We now only install EEF1 motors
- Work smarter and more efficiently.
Towards the end of 2008 we started our plan to make additional savings to our carbon footprint, by replacing our existing chillers with energy efficient chillers. By replacing our chillers it is estimated that we will save a further 1,600 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum.
In 2009 Bowater Building Products signed up to a Climate Change Levy Agreement, with BPF Energy. As a result of signing up to this agreement we are committed to reducing our energy consumption per Kg of product produced by 12%. We are well on route to hitting this target by 2010.
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