Sustainability By Foam Engineers For Advanced Foam Products

Sustainable Innovation

The topic of sustainability is one that we are committed and devoted to, we know we are at the beginning and have a long way to go but feel encouraged and excited about the future and the positive change and impact we can have.

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We have already developed many innovative products and have optimized many of our manufacturing processes by rethinking them from the beginning. Today, we are acting in an environmentally friendly and resourceful manner and will continue on this path.

We want to operate an even more sustainable business into the future and create longer term added value and benefit for our customers, employees and stakeholders.

Our team is on board, and we are collectively and continually planning new projects to improve our outputs and expand our knowledge as we become even more responsible for our actions from an economic, social and ecological viewpoint.

Our Green Credentials

We want to operate an even more sustainable business into the future and create longer term added value and benefit for our customers, employees and stakeholders.

What are we doing at Foam Engineers to reduce our impact
on the environment.

As a converter of plastic products, we fully understand our potential impact to
the environment and our responsibility to reduce this as much as possible. We
are currently working on numerous projects and initiatives within the business
to achieve this. We call this the Foam Engineers Sustainability program.

We aim to recycle all our waste from general waste to foam waste.

Our foam waste is recycled back into new products such as carpet underlay,
play areas and soft toy stuffing. We are continually reviewing and exploring
new ways to recycle our foam waste.

Where possible, all our processes have been reviewed to reduce scrap and
waste materials.

In some cases, this have been achieved by adjusting our cutting programs and
improving yields. We now work Monday to Thursday which is helping us save
energy and fuel consumption – we have estimated collectively we are doing
193 miles less each week.

We are embarking on a project to fully understand, access and
offer eco foams.

These foams are currently available through most of our suppliers around
the world from Europe to Japan. What are eco foams? These fall into two
categories, which are, plant based or bio based foams which have been
developed since the late 1990’s and recycled foams made up of a percentage
of recycled content. Over the past several decades this technology has evolved
substantially, and bio-based polyols are being used today. Once we have
established a product range of eco foams, we will carry out the necessary
internal testing to ensure suitability and effective conversion. We are excited
that this will create opportunities in a wide range of applications and markets.
We hope to be able to promote these eco foam products very soon.

We have a dedicated Green Team.

Who are responsible for continually reviewing our business strategy to ensure
we are doing all we can to be as environmentally friendly as possible, this
team will also review any legislation and criteria we as a business are expected
to meet and adhere to, this will involve, familiarizing ourselves with the new
environmental legislation, plastic tax 2022 small business sustainability,
environmental compliance.

Supporting Sustainable Developments Goals (SDSs)

Closing the loop On Waste

We recycle up to 68% of post-production waste material. This is typically achieved through the foam manufacturers who turn the waste into new products.

This is a result of our expanding commitment to the creation of more sustainable technologies that close the loop on post-production waste material and get us closer to the end goal of ZERO waste. We are investing more than ever before in R&D to continually understand and develop more sustainable solutions that optimize our supply chain from end to end by capturing and repurposing all waste material.

A drive to Recylce

Trim foam become new products

We send our polyurethane trim foam to a company called Ball and Young who are an industry leader in flooring underlays. PU trim foam is ground up, cleaned and then rebonded in moulds.

4-day working week Ban on plastic cups We are measuring your carbon footprint and outlining a reduction plan using Climate Essentials (Decarbonisation report available on request) Energy efficient LED lights Carboard reuse scheme We aim to promote a range of eco foams Internal recycling We only use recycled paper towels Optimised cutting plans across our processes We bale foam waste for recycling or resale

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