Sustainability

In the building industry, sustainability concentrates on low energy building design, construction using sustainable materials, a built product displaying exemplary energy efficiency and delivering the use of renewable materials. Above all else the built project and its environment must provide sustainability in longevity and economy. In other words, be built to last. Plasmor remain at the forefront of innovative sustainable construction materials with concrete blocks at the forefront of sustainable, long-lasting construction.

Plasmor constantly strive to enhance the Company’s sustainability in a great number of ways. These include employing rail transport wherever possible thus reducing lorry movement, reducing dependency or quarried virgin aggregates, maximising the use of waste, reclaimed or recycled materials and effecting significant energy saving initiatives in both production and distribution activities.

Plasmor constantly strive to enhance the Company’s sustainability in a great number of ways. These include employing rail transport wherever possible thus reducing lorry movement, reducing dependency or quarried virgin aggregates, maximising the use of waste, reclaimed or recycled materials and effecting significant energy saving initiatives in both production and distribution activities.

Sustainability is the greatest challenge facing the architectural, building and building supply industries at the moment. Our environmental policy is to:-

• Comply with all relevant environmental legislation and other requirements where applicable

• Monitor progress and review our environmental performance on an annual basis

• Continuously seek to improve our performance and prevent pollution in all business areas effecting the environment

• Advise and where necessary educate and train our employees in environmental issues and the environmental effects of their activities

• Ensure environmental awareness is a key component of our corporate strategy of continuous capital investment in new plant and equipment to ensure use of the best available equipment and the adoption of the latest technology and techniques to reduce the effect of our operations on the environment

• Have Board level focus on energy use by careful measurement at all sites and ongoing investment in energy efficiency schemes and projects including the use of alternative fuels

• Operate appropriate measures at all sites to minimise the impact of air and noise pollution, emissions from all our industrial processes and to ensure careful management of water resources and drainage

• Operate a policy for recycling of waste materials including re-use of crushed concrete waste from manufacturing processes

• Engender good relations with the neighbours of our operating sites and react quickly to any environmental issues drawn to our attention

• Promote the benefits of sustainable construction using traditional methods in the marketing of our products to the construction industry. To read our RESPONSIBLE SOURCING POLICY STATEMENT, visit our Technical Library