Since 2014 Ashby has been offsetting it's energy consumption with solar generation. Approximately 30% of our daily energy use is now returned to the grid

In recent years we have been moving away from the use of polystyrene to package our goods. Polystyrene is a very lightweight and effective packaging material, but it's negative environmental impact is undeniable: the stuff just doesn't go away. In 2021 we invested in new packaging equipment and materials in an effort to move on from polystyrene. In conjunction with this we have been reducing our reliance on overnight carriers to transport our goods, opting instead to use smaller courier vans. This allows us to use significantly less packaging overall, what internally we refer to as light-wrapping, as well as our goods travelling direct to where they need to be, and not via disparate hubs and circular lorry routes.

Aluminium is our primary and preferred material of choice for sign manufacture. In pure environmental terms: it's lightweight, durable, and near infinitely recyclable. So while it has a high energy cost from a primary production perspective, it requires a mere 5% of that energy to recycle. And those energy savings remain intact, as aluminium is unchanged by the recycling process - no degradation to the metal, no need for additional chemical processes - no matter how many times it does through the process. What you get out, is what you put in.It's lightweight nature reduces energy costs (and thus emissions) for transportation: whether that's sheets of metal on a cargo ship or a No Entry sign on a courier.We do, of course, offer composite aluminium sheet as a substrate for our signage and we have chosen suppliers who have a proven track record on both recycling and the use of recycled materials in it's production - what is often referred to as a 'closed loop' manufacturing process.

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Since 2014 Ashby has been offsetting it's energy consumption with solar generation. Approximately 30% of our daily energy use is now returned to the grid

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