Simon Wilson, managing director of RENOLIT UK Limited, recently welcomed Emma Foody MP, as well as Chris Kelsey and Michelle Wilcox from NECC, at the company's manufacturing facility in Cramlington, Northumberland.
As well as an opportunity to tour the site and meet employees across the business, discussions centred around major capital projects either already in progress or to be installed over the next few years.
After recent multi-million pound investment in a new embossing line, work is already ongoing to install a rooftop and car port solar PV system as well as reduce environmental emissions. Further investment is set to follow over the next few years, both expanding base production capacity as well as renewing the building infrastructure.
"Sustainability is a key objective for us," says Simon Wilson. "We are working closely with customers to increase recycling rates throughout our value chain. Our new solar project should supply more than 10% of our site electricity requirements and reduce our carbon footprint by more than 300 tonnes CO2e per year, and there is scope to expand this going forward”.
As well as being impressed by the investment plans and focus on Sustainability, Emma was pleased to meet a number of employees as they walked through the busy factory, hear about their work and was impressed with the knowledge and passion which she experienced.
Emma praised the RENOLIT team and the company's forward-thinking approach. "Investing in green technologies benefits the environment and strengthens the local economy," she remarked. The visit concluded with shared optimism for the future as all parties promised to work together and looked forward to seeing the planned projects progress.
