Sustainability Consulting Services
At Ceram, our expertise spans product and process development, materials technology and environmental legislation, making us ideally placed to help ensure your organisation realises the full benefits of implementing sustainable practices. With our knowledge and experience, we can quickly identify sustainability opportunities, helping you to reduce operating costs, enhance brand image and increase profitability.
We can work with you to:
- Improve resource efficiency - energy, water and waste
- Identify and source substitute raw materials - alternative, recycled or secondary materials - to develop greener, lower cost, technically improved products
- Develop an energy management strategy to improve energy performance and reduce costs
- Embed and maintain best practice through the implementation of Environmental (ISO 14001) and Energy (ISO 50001) Management Systems
- Develop Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) to communicate the whole-life environmental profile of products or systems
- Produce organisational and product carbon and water footprints.
Benefits of implementing sustainable practices:
- Resource efficiency – optimised process performance and management of energy, carbon, water and raw material usage
- Cost reduction - fewer/alternative materials and reduced resource usage
- Increased profitability - lower costs and enhanced reputation
- Risk management – compliancy with existing and future environmental regulations
- Improved sustainability credentials - proving commitment to your stakeholders, giving you a competitive advantage and having a positive effect on purchasing decisions.
CICS, part of The Ceram Group, provides independent assurance and certification against a range of international sustainability standards, schemes and protocols.
Case Studies:
Carbon Footprinting – UK Brick Industry
Ceram provided BDA with a verifiable Carbon Footprint for the UK brick manufacturing sector
Energy Reduction in Manufacturing Processes - WRAP
Recycled glass in clay brick manufacture
Waste/Recycled Material Utilisation - WRAP
Recycled glass in sanitaryware manufacture
