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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The GPCS compares Britannia’s base period - which is the company’s manufacturing without green energy - vs everything in its control that it can do to reduce the carbon footprint of its P50 extinguishers but now using green energy. A traditional metal fire extinguisher has a carbon footprint of approximately 3.31Kg, whereas the P50’s is only 1.29Kg if you consider its whole production journey – i.e. from raw materials to finished product.
Switching to photovoltaic energy will now save almost a quarter (22.5 per cent) of Britannia’s energy bill so you see that current 1.29Kg carbon load should drop to circa 1.0Kg. Britannia and the P50 is a British manufacturing success story. The company is managing to manufacture at world-leading standards while remaining competitive because it has invested. For instance, it used to take Britannia 40 seconds to test each extinguisher for leaks. That is now halved down to 18 seconds with a new machine which is also easier to use and more reliable.
The P50 is leading the way in designing and making the world’s fire extinguishers simpler to use, with a low-maintenance service regime and a longer-lifecycle.
Britannia Fire
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Britannia’s multi-use P50 extinguisher
Holding a ten-year guarantee, at the end of its 20-year life, every part of a P50 - apart from its foam contents - can be reused or recycled. Because the P50 can be easily self- maintained and does not require a fire engineer to service it every year, the need for expensive, external service engineer visits is removed – saving costs and all the carbon footprint involved in that routine.
GETTING GREENER
The carbon footprint has been cut by 22 per cent thanks to Britannia’s recent £110,000 investment in photovoltaic (PV) panels. It is all part of the company’s journey to net zero. To ensure credibility and transparency in Britannia’s carbon calculations, the company follows the international Greenhouse Protocol Corporate Standard (GPCS) – one of the world’s most widely- used greenhouse gas accounting standards.
% Reduction 22% 12%
Britannia Fire’s calculations estimating the total carbon saving* in 2023 for both its innovative P50 and its conventional, portable metal fire extinguishers. * NB the 22 per cent reduction is the carbon saved by Britannia’s switch to green energy (i.e. not accounting for how it was already the world’s most sustainable fire extinguisher).
Britannia’s current Kg/CO2 per unit 1.29
Britannia’s revised 2023 Kg/CO2 per unit after its PV installation
1.01
Britannia’s metal
extinguishers 3.31 2.90
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