NEWS EXTRA BMF AWARD WINNERS 2021
Level 3 Apprenticeship: Luke Hoyle, Carlton Manufacturing Apprenticeship Level 2: Nathan Kacoulc Embrass Peerless Best Performing Student in the BMF Diploma in Merchant Management: Donna Maclean, MGM Timber Best Online Student, Building Blocks: Sam Murphy, Mid-Sussex Timber Ambassador of the Year: Bart Murphy Young Supplier Achiever of the Year: Alex Barton, E Tupling
Young Merchant Achiever of the Year Highly Commended: Stephen Quigley, BMC Bronze: Georgie Newby, Gibbs & Dandy Silver: Gavin Knowles, Howarth Timber & Building Materials Gold: Lindsay Hart, Norman Piette
CONFERENCE TAKEAWAYS
Giles Bradford Giles Bradford
“Regulation will come and financial support will be based upon your business is from an environment point of view. We also feel that with our 250-year legacy in our community, we have responsibility to that community feel with have that much responsibility to our legacy. There are a number of things we can do across the
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business: looking at the way we use and procure printers across the business, putting flow restrictors on taps, moving from plastic bags to paper bags, recycling our dumpy bags, swapping plastic tape on packaging for paper tape. Tiny little things that can make a difference. It’s about going out there and saying what can we do to help. Will it help if we have loads all in on branch, can we return packaging to you, can we reuse the pallets. We all have an individual responsibility by having those conversations together solving the problem together.
ACO: John Ryszkowski Since the year 2000, the world has consumed and burned 50%
John Ryszkowski
James Mitchell Kerridge
more fossil fuels. That’s what we are dealing with. We have to ask ourselves, is the race to net zero going to be enough or do we need to be doing more than that? 30% of all building materials on building sites are going direct to waste. How we operate as an industry is going to be crucially important in achieving sustainability aims. Set yourselves ambitious targets and goals. We are very proud to be the first manufacturer accepted onto the Construct 2Zero Net Zero programme. Since 2013 ACO as a business reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 30%.We are always looking at how we can
get more sustainable materials into our products, or look at how we can take material out without compromising the safety and performance of that products. We are all interconnected. What the last 18 months have proven is that it’s not about who is better than someone else, it’s about how we can work together to make a difference.
James Mitchell Kerridge
Cloud solutions are an ecological game changer. Initiatives such as eTIM ensure that the right product is selected first time. If
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