Environment

Taking care of the environment is important to us. We are committed to continuously improving how we run our business: from managing our resources and waste to reducing the carbon footprint of our facilities across the entire lifecycle of our products.

Taking care of our environment

Within our own operations and joint ventures, we focus activity that have the greatest potential impact on the environment. We aim to reduce energy use, our carbon footprint, water use and waste to landfill. In 2016, we achieved a leadership position of A- in the CDP.

Our energy reduction cuts emissions and costs, giving us an edge with our customers in this competitive market. With our better carbon footprint it’s a win/win.

Dan Kirk

Plant Manager, Lafayette South, Indiana

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Key environmental highlights from the 2017 Annual Report

Across our operations and joint ventures, we focus on three aspects of our activities that have the greatest potential impact on the environment:

Energy use and carbon emissions
Projects include replacing the boiler economiser unit at our Lafayette South, US plant with a new model; upgrading the economiser unit at our Almex joint venture plant in Mexico; and constructing a new gas-fired electrical co-generation plant at our Loudon, US facility. These changes will increase the efficiency of energy generation and reduce fuel use (and carbon emissions) at these sites.

Water use

We reduced our water use per tonne of production by 2.6% in 2016, due to water efficiency projects and programmes we implemented during the year. Since 2008 we have reduced water use per tonne of production by 1.5%.

Waste to landfill

We reduced waste to landfill by 15.8% per tonne of production in 2016 and since 2008 waste to landfill per tonne of production has reduced by 14.8%.

Read the 2017 Annual Report for more information