businesses of all sizes in the North West and further afield, including most recently across Wales.
Nicholson explains the benefits: “The Toolkit removes lots of the barriers that businesses experience on the sustainability journey. This isn’t a report or manual that sits on a shelf gathering dust; it’s an easy-to-use electronic tool that allows busy staff to manage large amounts of detailed data across several projects, and it’s continually updated to align with the latest national research on CO2 calculations.
“It also helps managers who meet resistance to adopting
Crown Paints, Lancashire Crown Paints is the largest independent paint manufacturer in the UK, with over 1500 staff. An ENWORKS advisor helped it to reduce its water consumption by installing new water meters and implementing strict water usage guidelines. The company reduced waste paint and solvent use by recycling and made its production line practices more efficient, as well as improving compressed air efficiency. It is now saving £600,000 and 295 tonnes of CO2 a year.
Nicholson added: “We hope more and more businesses will recognise the value and economic sense of increasing their resource efficiency. We work with an extremely diverse range of
environmental measures to build a strong internal business case. The data provides them with the pros and cons of specific measures, both in a financial and environmental sense.”
How the ENWORKS Programme works The process typically starts with an ENWORKS advisor visiting a business to provide a free initial consultation. If the business decides to go ahead the advisor carries out a detailed review to identify and quantify resource saving options.
Potential opportunities for making improvements are logged on the Toolkit, which is used to calculate the cost savings, payback periods and environmental benefits. To help keep track of progress, each opportunity has a status, beginning with ‘initial scope’ and moving through ‘investigation’, ‘feasible/not feasible’ and ‘implementation’ to ‘achieved’. ENWORKS then continues to provide support, both on-site and off-site, that is tailored to the company’s need, for as long as it is needed.
Case studies: Whitehaven Brewery, Cumbria This small brewery produces beer from traditional recipes, without chemical treatment. An ENWORKS advisor helped to reduce costs by installing an insulated temperature control room and a heat exchanger chilling unit to keep the beer at a constant temperature. The company reduced its water use from 25 litres to 5 litres by installing a new cask washer, and reduced its gas
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businesses including manufacturers, retailers and the leisure industry and our data demonstrates clearly that resource efficiency helps them to make huge savings.”
Sharing best practice ENWORKS is keen to share best practice across its partnership and the Toolkit is an invaluable aid in this. Recent analysis of savings data showed particularly high electricity savings were being achieved in one area. An investigation identified that surveys to detect leaks in compressed air systems were generating substantial cost and environmental savings for businesses, through low-cost repairs. This finding was shared with other advisors in order that the good practice could be applied elsewhere.
ENWORKS is keen to share its knowledge and experience and launched its ‘ENWORKS in a Box’ website last year to allow others delivering environmental support to businesses to access its information, practical tools and guidance.
ENWORKS is supported by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Its work has won many accolades, including the internationally renowned Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2007.
consumption by installing a continuous brewing system. Overall, it is saving £14,000 and 48 tonnes of CO2 a year.
Camfil Farr, Lancashire The company designs and manufactures air filtration and clean air systems for commercial and industrial use. An ENWORKS advisor recommended that they replaced inefficient lighting, optimised their heating systems, identified and repaired leaks in the compressed air systems and reduced the fuel consumption of their delivery van fleet. Overall the company is saving over £271,000 and 942 tonnes of CO2 a year.
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