Our Statement of Commitment
Kemps Architectural Lighting Ltd is one of the UK’s foremost manufacturers
and fitters of cold cathode lighting. The group’s activities include manufacture, assembly, delivery and fitting of products directly to customers throughout the world. The group
fully understands its dependence and impact upon the environment and recognizes the importance of sound environmental management practice. In turn we recognize the need to form partnerships
with suppliers and sub contractors who have an equal commitment to the environment.
Our management of
environmental issues
Our management of environmental issues is actively pursued by our management, and our health, safety and environmental team, who will give due regard to environmental law, best practice in environmental issues in business and industry, and environmental innovations, and take advice as required from Envirowise. Good environmental practice will in turn be adopted as part of our current operations and future business decisions. We will as part of our purchasing policy seek partners who have the same commitment to environmental issues as we do, and have formally stated such intentions
in their own policies.
Our focus on lower energy usage
and efficiency
We use power in many different forms from lighting, to heating, to processing
to transportation. At all times our focus is to achieve low usage through cutting wastage of energy or by investing in energy efficient equipment, processes, systems and vehicles. Dual use of energy in heating and processing also cuts our pro rata energy consumption to a minimum which is always our aim. Clean energy usage is also important to us as energy can create pollution and this "whole" approach gives us a sound balanced energy policy.
Our focus on getting the most
from material resources
We use materials that often are taken from natural resources such as metals (fittings), woods (packaging) and sand (glass). We adopt a policy of re-use, re-cycle and renew, such that no materials are thrown away, all materials can be
re-cycled, and what materials we do draw from natural resources that can be renewable as well as recyclable are sourced accordingly.
Getting the most from materials resources means getting the least waste
As part of our main target to manufacture and fit our products to the best quality possible with the least use of energy and resources, we also focus strongly on waste production. This may be from our processes, it also may be from our people, and we work to a policy of every little helps so whatever can be re-used or re-cycled should be actively sorted and segregated from "waste" and re-used or forwarded for re-cycle such that our production of waste to landfill will be minimized at all times.
Working with our partners
We recognize that environmental matters are world wide matters as well as
local so we will work with international suppliers and customers, but also local suppliers, customers, our employees and the local community wherever we can work in some sort of partnership to improve any aspect of the environment. We will respond to any environmental initiative wherever it comes from and will encourage our employees through our policy, our practical actions and the resultant environmental training of our employees to be fully on board with our policy and in turn make their own personal contributions to what should be a "world wide effort".
On behalf of the board of directors of Kemps Architectural Lighting Ltd
Mark Kemp
Managing Director
15th January 2010.
