NVC cuts plastic packaging
NVC Lighting has cut the amount of plastic in the packaging of its luminaires after a change in its pallet wrap process.
The company installed Armour Wrap from Springpack which provides strong puncture resistance and can be stretched more than a regular wrap.
In its 12 months of use it has saved £4,000 and saved 47 kilograms of plastic.
The switch to working with Springpack has also helped to improve the company’s ability to make reliable and accurate forecasts regarding packaging in line with customer demands.
The business operates from purpose-built premises in Birmingham including offices, 90,000 ft² of warehouse space and an assembly facility for made-to-order products.
Andy Pagett, chief operating officer at NVC Lighting, told the Circular Lighting Report: ‘As a business, we’re constantly looking for ways to improve our environmental efficiency and identified packaging as an area to focus on.
‘We reached out to Springpack to enquire about our warehouse consumable needs and have been really impressed with the results from a cost and innovation perspective.
‘From an environmental standpoint, we have transitioned to using eco-friendly bubble wrap, air pillows, and document-enclosed wallets, all of which help contribute to our wider sustainability goals.’
In 2022, NVC Lighting announced that it has become carbon neutral for its UK operations. It achieved this by offsetting using audited projects including a wind power electricity generation plant in the Philippines, a power project in Chile, and a bio-fuel electricity generation in Cambodia which generates electricity by burning rice husks.
Alongside offsetting, NVC says that it is reducing waste, cutting emissions, and increasing efficiency in multiple ways.
These include a 50 per cent reduction in electricity usage. By improving logistics and management, NVC is achieving higher sales and better customer service with much less stock requiring less warehouse space, which has reduced electricity consumption by almost half.
It has also reduced that dimensions of the packaging round NVC’s lighting products meaning that more of them can fit into a standard 40-foot container reducing the number that are imported.
The firm has also eliminated printed instruction leaflets. NVC’s product cartons have QR codes which lead to instructions rather than separate printed instructions.
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