Objectives:

• To be respected as a pro-active company who delivers action on climate change.
• Engage customers, employees and suppliers alike over serious environmental issues.

Programme developed with The Carbon Neutral Company®:

The Carbon Neutral Company®, together with scientific partner ECCM (Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management), calculated Flashbay's footprint by measuring the CO2 equivalent emissions from its premises, manufacturing processes, logistics, company owned vehicles, business travel and waste to landfill. We reduced emissions by:

• Selecting Carbon Neutral partners and suppliers where possible.
• Analysing all Flashbay processes from product packing to machine operation and optimising each process by reducing usage, increasing efficiency, and avoiding wastage for activates with environmental consequence.
• Innovation: integrated more efficient components into computers and products.
• Taking responsibility for unavoidable emissions by investing in a renewable offset projects from The Carbon Neutral Company®.

Our Offset Project: Quzhai Waste Heat Recovery Project in China:

This project involves the construction of a waste heat recovery power plant at a cement production facility in the northern Chinese province of Hebei. Cement production is a highly polluting process and over recent years China’s production capacity has grown considerably.

As with many industrial processes, cement production creates wasted heat which is usually vented into the atmosphere. Up to 35% of the heat used within this particular facility is wasted. Flashbay's investment will contribute to new equipment to increase the efficiency of the facility by utilising the waste heat to generate electricity for use on-site.

The activity will displace electricity generated by fossil fuel power stations, which mainly run on coal in China. Additional benefits include a dramatic reduction in heat pollution within the facility and reduction in local air pollution. It is not common practice in the Chinese cement industry to install such technology, and this is the first example within Hebei province.

Carbon credits have allowed the project to become financial viable.