Kingspan Insulated Panels has won Manufacturer of the Year at the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2016 – the awards programme that recognises the businesses, NGOs and executives across the UK that are turning sustainability pledges into reality.
Outlining the reasons for the award win, the judging panel said: “In a highly competitive category, Kingspan Insulated Panels stood out for both its development of energy saving products and its rapid progress towards becoming a ‘Net Zero Energy’ company. The judges were particularly impressed by its commitment to renewable power, its zero waste sites, and its halving of carbon emissions inside five years.”
Kingspan’s Net-Zero Energy programme began in 2011 with a firm commitment to achieve net-zero energy across Kingspan’s operations by 2020.
Since starting the process Kingspan Insulated Panels has reduced its carbon emissions by almost 50% and in 2014 over a third of the energy used by Kingspan Insulated Panels came from renewable sources, with carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity down 44%.
On the products side, the award win recognises Kingspan’s achievement in the development of IPNQuadCore – a new insulated panel core technology.
Commenting on the win, Phil Smith, managing director of Kingspan Insulated Panels UK & Ireland, said: “We’re delighted that our sustainability initiatives are being recognised through awards like this, especially in the context of so many other strong entries. But our ambition is that our Net-Zero Energy programme serves as a useful model for the construction industry, and the wider business community as a whole, to follow.
“By demonstrating that its possible to both reduce carbon emissions and improve the bottom line, we hope to press home the strong business case for sustainability. Making this case clearly could well be the single biggest driver for sustainability improvements the business community will ever see.”
You can learn more about Kingspan Insulated Panels’ Net-Zero Energy journey by visiting www.sustainability.kingspanpanels.com.
