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to reduce our impact is the operation and running of our facilities. We’ re working with lots of different groups and specialists to reduce our emissions end to end. For example, we decided very early on that the new Blyth facility will run entirely on electric energy, not gas.
Long-term planning
“ This means we can have 100 percent renewable electricity, which will be the case this year. We’ ve made that commitment. There are also a lot of other initiatives in place, including using low-emission lighting and reducing our waste through improvements in the manufacturing process. We’ ve also been working with our supply chain to look at the whole carbon footprint of the product. When the cables have copper in them, for instance, it’ s important to question where that copper comes from. Is it produced using renewable electricity or fossil fuels? We’ ve been actively working with suppliers to secure lowercarbon copper material sourcing. There’ s also an opportunity for increasing recycled content to close to 100 percent in some of those raw materials.
“ For a business like ours, about 95 percent of our emissions come from our supply chain. Focusing on the supply chain is exactly the right thing to do. We then look to decarbonize each of those material supplies. In recent years, we have also been trialing sea freight rather than road freight, which has massively reduced our transportation emissions.
This means we can have 100 percent renewable electricity, which will be the case this year
“ These changes require a long-term plan; it can’ t be done overnight, but the benefits are so significant that we are organizing our own supply chain day in July, where we will be talking about how we can encourage our supply chain to decarbonize their own operations, which could result in dramatic cost savings alongside doing the right thing for the environment.
“ This is what we need to do to stop the impact of climate change. For some businesses, it’ s quite daunting, as it was for us initially. If organizations work at it and collaborate with companies like ours, it’ s possible to support the supply chain to understand where improvements can be made, and subsequent benefits realized.”
With an exciting future ahead, James shares his thoughts on the coming years:“ We’ ve future-proofed our new facility, ensuring we have the capabilities to expand. The market for offshore energy products is going to be huge in the decades to come, and we are perfectly placed to help build and maintain this crucial infrastructure,” he concludes. ■
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