Carbon reduction across all operations is crucial for Unipart, its customers, and suppliers to tackle the climate and energy crisis.
The Unipart Way, a system designed and created through the study and development of the pioneering Lean principles, engages every Unipart colleague with skills to diagnose problems and create innovative solutions.
Parallel to Unipart’s drive for innovative solutions is a sustainability strategy and SBTi-validated greenhouse gas reduction targets designed to maximise growth for Unipart, its employees, customers, suppliers, local communities and shareholders.
Unipart’s commitment to sustainable innovation has led to it recently launching to the market a variety of transformative solutions for operations and supply chains – including Eco Insight, FuelActive, and manufactured reinforcement systems.
To address climate change and create sustainable business practices in our operations and for our customers, we are committed to investing in new services and partnerships to innovate today for a better tomorrow.
Wholesale prices for gas and electricity have reached new record highs in the UK during the ongoing energy crisis.
Under the July to September 2024 direct debit price cap the average annual bill for typical gas and electricity consumption was £1,568. This will rise by 10% to £1,717 in the fourth quarter of 2024, and is expected to increase by a further 3% in the first quarter of 2025.
Unipart’s plug and play energy-monitoring product, Eco Insight, is helping Unipart’s own sites and customers tackle this crisis by providing real-time data to identify where energy is wasted, reduce operating costs, and lower carbon emissions. The simple to install sensors can monitor business energy consumption anywhere, from offices to factories, warehouses to public buildings.
Eco Insight Tech SME case studyIn the rail industry, reducing fuel consumption is crucial for lowering carbon emissions and achieving net zero targets.
FuelActive, a fuel pick-up solution brought exclusively to the rail market by Unipart, is a unique method of delivering 92% cleaner fuel to the engine by drawing fuel from the top of the fuel level. Standard diesel engines draw fuel from the bottom of the fuel tank where water, sediment, diesel bug and other contaminants settle.
FuelActive is helping to reduce carbon emissions in multiple industries including mining, transportation, construction and power generation.
FuelActive FuelActive Colas rail UK case studyThe construction industry faces increasingly stringent regulations on health and safety and sustainability, so must implement innovative solutions.
Unipart Construction Technologies manufactured reinforcement systems for the construction industry are created from laser cut steel profiles that are joined using innovative mechanical techniques originally developed for the aerospace sector.
Not only is this innovative solution safer, faster, stronger, and lower cost, crucially it is greener, reducing embodied carbon by up to 40%.
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