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Vectair Systems honoured as International Green World Ambassadors
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ectair Systems were honoured as International Green World Ambassadors at a special presentation ceremony on Monday November 16th 2015 at the Houses of Parliament, London.
This recognition comes as a result of the environmental success of its V-Air® SOLID multi-phasing air freshener with sub-micron technology, which has won an International Green Apple Environment Award. V-Air® SOLID is classified as VOC exempt and waste-free. It is completely free of any solvents, propellants, HFCs and harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs). V-Air® SOLID contains no batteries. It is designed so that it does not need any external power source such and it doesn’t rely on gravity – all it needs to work is natural airflow. The refill is 100% organic and biodegradable and the dispenser is 100% recyclable. Vectair Systems competed against more than 500 other nominations in the Green Apple Awards for Environmental Best Practice. As a result of this success, Vectair is having its winning paper published in The Green Book, the world’s only annual work of reference on environmental best practice that is distributed to environment professionals, universities and libraries around the world
by The Green Organisation. The
award judges commented: “Air fresheners in public
facilities are products that are more likely noticed when they are not installed, but when used they can have VOC, recycling and waste implications. Vectair are major global suppliers and wanted to improve the sustainability of these products, so they invented a recyclable and biodegradable passively dispersed system that uses no propellants or electricity – yet performs as well as any other system.” Paul Wonnacott, Managing Director and President, Vectair Systems says: “We pride ourselves on being innovators in hygiene and the environment is something that our customers are increasingly becoming aware of. We have therefore invested a lot of time and
resources into producing effective ‘green’ solutions and we are thrilled to have won such a prestigious accolade as the Green Apple Award for V-Air® SOLID.” The winning paper now goes forward for further judging and the possibility of representing the UK in the Brussels- led European Business Awards for the Environment.
The Green Apple Awards are one of the few environmental schemes in Britain that have official status to act as an automatic feeder scheme into the European campaign.
www.vectairsystems.com
SWARCO restructures UK business and announces new senior appointments
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he Austrian traffic technology group, SWARCO AG, has announced a series of new appointments following the acquisition of the APT Group of Companies in 2014. As part of a restructuring of the business, SWARCO has created a new Parking and E-mobility division comprising APT SkiData, Veri-park, Evolt and APT Security Systems. The new division is to be led by Sean Dunstan, the former Managing Director of APT SkiData. He now assumes a much wider group role. Sean’s place as Managing Director of APT SkiData is taken by Peter Brown who joined recently from Securitas where he was Head of Regional Technical Directors. Pete, who graduated from Nottingham with a BA in Business Studies, started his career in the retail industry in 1993, moving into the security sector with
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Stanley Security Solutions in 2005. He held a number of senior positions within Stanley, before joining Securitas in 2014. SWARCO TRAFFIC LTD, the SWARCO subsidiary in the UK, is being expanded to include the SignPost Solutions business to create a new Traffic Management and Control division based in Richmond, Yorkshire. This new division is led by Managing Director Jeremy Cowling. SWARCO purchased 100% of the shares of the APT Group in May 2014. The two businesses have previously worked successfully together on a number of projects and proven the concept and the advantages of a combined offer to the market.
The restructure and new appointments are part of a previously announced strategy for SWARCO to strengthen its parking and electro-mobility businesses
which it
says is a key investment focus.
It also
follows the retirement of Dermot Murphy, Chief Executive of the APT Group of Companies, after almost 28 years with the business. Dermot will retain a role within the group as non-exec Director.
www.swarco.com
Building & Facilities Management – January 2016
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