The Sustainable Future of Fenestration?

Taking things up a level internally, in 2018 Liniar met with the Environmental Agency and agreed to a Climate Change agreement in a bid to be part of a UK-wide push to reduce its CO₂ emissions. Liniar’s Group MD Martin Thurley comments,

“When we entered into our Climate Change Agreement, we also had the aim of securing ISO14001 accreditation – so doing both concurrently just made sense. We’d already been a zero operational wastage facility for more than two decades, so reducing our carbon footprint needed to go further than reducing scrap rates – when ours were already one of the lowest in the industry (less than 3% compared with an average of 10% scrap amongst comparable systems companies).

“Instead, we focused on making changes throughout the facility. We set off a series of project including replacing all incandescent lighting with low voltage LED lighting, installing new energy-efficient heat pumps which don’t need fossil fuels, replacing vehicles throughout the fleet with eco-friendly versions with minimum emissions, installing low-energy extruders which produce twice as much volume with less power, and using metering and controls throughout all properties on the site to ensure heating is managed properly.

“These changes have been implemented over the last 12 months and the results have been excellent. We surpassed the Climate Change Agreement target by more than 63%, achieved our ISO14001 accreditation and reduced carbon emissions by nearly 18,000 tonnes.”

In the current climate, uPVC systems companies have an uphill battle to differentiate themselves from the negative connotations surrounding ‘plastics’ – but the work that Liniar and other systems companies are doing is making a positive impact.

Sue Davenport, Liniar’s Marketing Director commented,

“After seeing the amount of carbon we had saved over the last 12 months, together with all the other ‘green’ initiatives we’ve been undertaking, we decided to enter the industry-leading G Awards for Sustainability Initiative of the Year. We were delighted to be selected as a finalist!

“No matter who wins the award, we’re honoured to be a part of it and want everyone to be as passionate about safeguarding our children’s and grandchildren’s futures by protecting the planet and its environment.”

In today’s online world, consumers are more educated about the products they purchase than ever before – and being able to demonstrate eco-friendly credentials is increasingly important. For most businesses, making changes to shrink their carbon footprints is likely to have an impact on sales and profitability in the future.

Small steps lead to big changes… so how will your business make its impact?

For more information about reducing carbon emissions, please visit https://www.gov.uk/environment/climate-change-energy.

Discover the Liniar difference and view its full energy-efficient range of windows, doors and conservatories at www.liniar.co.uk.