Environmental Policy
Ancon Building Products design and manufacture high integrity steel products for the construction industry. The company operates from three manufacturing sites in the UK and has a combined workforce of circa 300 employees.
This policy applies to all activities undertaken by Ancon Building Products in the UK and impacts upon our suppliers and customers. This document serves to outline our commitment to meeting our environmental obligations and forms the basis of our environmental management system in accordance with ISO 14001:2004.
We are committed to minimising the impact of our operations on the environment by ensuring that we achieve the following:
This policy applies to all activities undertaken by Ancon Building Products in the UK and impacts upon our suppliers and customers. This document serves to outline our commitment to meeting our environmental obligations and forms the basis of our environmental management system in accordance with ISO 14001:2004.
We are committed to minimising the impact of our operations on the environment by ensuring that we achieve the following:
- Compliance with all relevant environmental legislation and other requirements to which the organisation subscribes. In cases where no such legislation is known to exist we will employ such measures as to ensure that adequate control measures have been adopted so far as is reasonably practicable.
- Review the environmental impact of all company activities with all relevant parties. This will enable us to identify suitable and effective control measures in order to prevent pollution and will also serve to establish objectives and targets.
- Involve all Ancon employees in our environmental programme and ensure that training is provided to enable them to fulfil their roles and responsibilities. Ancon recognises the importance of gaining full cooperation and commitment from its employees in order to implement and maintain an effective environmental management system.
- Maintain a programme of continual improvement by setting and reviewing environmental objectives and targets.
- Engage suppliers and customers to ensure the best environmental practice is adopted in all of our activities, so far as is reasonably practicable.
- Improve energy and other resource efficiency, and reduce waste.
This policy will be made available to all Ancon employees and any person(s) working on behalf of Ancon.
Signed for and on behalf of Ancon Building Products, by Stuart Maxwell, Managing Director (May 2012)
Signed for and on behalf of Ancon Building Products, by Stuart Maxwell, Managing Director (May 2012)
2011 Metrics
Ancon’s manufacturing processes have a relatively low environmental impact – we use power and water on each Ancon site, but are not an energy-intensive business and we follow the principles of Lean Manufacturing to work as efficiently as possible while generating the minimal possible waste.
That said, Ancon is firmly committed to reducing the impact of our operations on the environment. This commitment is manifested in our rigorous recycling procedures, strict energy-efficiency schemes and effective waste-minimisation practices.
That said, Ancon is firmly committed to reducing the impact of our operations on the environment. This commitment is manifested in our rigorous recycling procedures, strict energy-efficiency schemes and effective waste-minimisation practices.
Power
Although our factories were busier in 2011 than in 2010 our power use actually reduced; this is thanks to a new, more efficient, heating system being installed at the Sheffield site.
Water
Only by monitoring our usage were we able to identify a leak at our Deeside site; when this situation was corrected our water use was dramatically reduced.
Waste
Our total waste decreased by 1.6% between 2010 and 2011, and the amount of waste incinerated from which energy was recovered increased by 58%.
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