EnvironmentCaice are committed to good environmental working practices. This is embodied in many different areas throughout the business and some of our key environmental strategies are detailed below.
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A number of our fan products are now available with DC motors, which are up to 70% more efficient than AC motors. This enables us to be compliant with the latest version of Building Regulations Document L published in 2006, covering Conservation of Fuel and Power. |
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Material wastage at production is stringently controlled. Attenuator products are largely produced from steel coil, and our software nesting systems enable us to keep wastage generally below 5%. In operations where we have higher wastage than this, scrap material above a certain size is stored and used on subsequent batches where small parts are required. All remaining steel waste that cannot be used is recycled. |
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Many of our production materials and components are delivered in plastic wrapping, or cardboard packaging. Both materials are separately compacted, baled and recycled. |
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We try to source materials at production that do not use excessive packaging. For example instead of buying mastic duct sealant in plastic tubes, we now buy the mastic in large containers and have special mastic guns that can be filled from the container. |
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Efficient planning systems enable us to minimise wasted space on the vehicles that deliver our products to site. This saves fuel and also enables us to keep delivery costs to our clients to a minimum. |
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We are gradually moving our business towards paperless systems. The vast majority of our sales documentation, such as quotations, order acknowledgements, delivery advice notes, etc, is predominantly issued by email and to a lesser extent by fax. The minimal waste paper that we do generate is recycled. |
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We are continually trying to develop e-commerce working methods that are advantageous to our clients but also encourage them to use less paper as well. For example the Caice Attenuator Selector enables OEM and distributor clients to select their own attenuators and create an order document for emailing back to us. We also try to promote our product literature as PDF downloads via the web, rather than mass producing paper brochures and catalogues.
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