Creating a better environment

Operational efficiency

Our commitment

We are committed to minimising our impacts on the natural world. This includes prioritising operational efficiency and maximising resource efficiency across all our operations to reduce the environmental impact from our products along their life cycle.

Our goal

Our goal is to eliminate and minimise pollution, waste and use of resources in all our operations and to safeguard biodiversity in and around our manufacturing sites.

Taking action

Read about how we are taking action to prioritise operational efficiency and maximise resource efficiency across our operations.

Environmental management

Our Environmental and Energy Policy Statement sets out our commitment to protecting the environment, and ensures we fulfil our environmental compliance obligations. We have achieved ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 50001 at our Gaydon and St Athan sites as part of our overall approach to environmental management at our main manufacturing facilities.

Read our Environmental and Energy Policy Statement

Waste

We aim to minimise waste and target zero waste to landfill and continue to build a clearer view of where and why waste is generated across our value chain. This includes working with specialist consultants to map our waste streams to improve waste management and reduction planning.

Air quality

We operate several processes under permit to the relevant local authority, predominately linked to our paint operations, which set air quality requirements for particulate matter, Volatile Organic Compounds (‘VOCs’), Carbon Monoxide (‘CO’) and Nitrous Oxides (‘NOx’). We actively manage our operations to ensure compliance with permits and to minimise any pollutants. We engage an external third party to undertake monitoring on our behalf and in line with the Monitoring Certification Scheme for Equipment, a certification scheme for environmental monitoring personnel, organisations and equipment in the UK.

Water

Our main water demand is generated by our manufacturing processes at our St Athan and Gaydon sites, although our operations are not regarded as water intensive.

According to the World Resource Institute Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, Gaydon is in an area of low to medium water stress and St Athan is in an area of low stress.

Biodiversity

We are committed to enhancing biodiversity at our sites and minimising ecological impacts by conducting specialist risk assessments and monitoring prior to undertaking any activities that may affect it. In 2023, we implemented biodiversity management plans at Gaydon and St Athan and we monitor against these using the UK Governments Department of Food and Rural Affairs (‘DEFRA’) Biodiversity Metric 1.03 ecological baseline condition assessment methodology.

Beyond our operations

Read about how we are developing our strategy for addressing water scarcity and our dependency on nature in our wider value chain.

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