Corporate sustainability is at the forefront of the environmental movement, with both customers and employees asking business what are they doing to help.  

Most businesses are aware, and are actively working to reduce their impact on the environment. Initially, looking into their direct emissions (scope 1), such as consumption level within their premises, and the vehicles on their company fleet to name but a few.
They also look at where they are acquiring their electricity from, is it 100%renewable? (scope 2).

The latest consideration is the life cycle of the product. Are the goods, transportation, business travel, waste and raw materials coming from a business that is environmentally working to reduce their impact (scope 3)?

Under scope three customers will be looking to understand your businesses effort to reduce environmental impacts through your product and supply chain. Are you using the latest technology to streamline your production, sort your waste safely and effectively, and maintaining the technology through regular servicing and preventative maintenance?

Managing Director James Coleyshaw was invited to sit on the panel of the most recent Shropshire Chamber of Commerce Green Law event, to give his take on how businesses can use automation to help in their environmental efforts.

One of Holloway Control Systems recent automation projects has seen the team provide a solution for a local farm who is using the organic waste from its day-to-day activities to create biogas. This can then be used on the farm itself as fuel and sold back to the grid as electricity, making the farm self-sustaining. Using automation through a SCADA system to control the each aspect of the digestor.

Beyond the scope 1 and 2 scope projects such as the digestor. Holloway Control Systems looks at automation systems as a part of the whole business, looking at business growth, and what will be required from the system as your business becomes more successful. Through emulation we can model for longevity and predict at what point the system will need to be upgraded, and in the interim when parts will need servicing or replacing, ensuring that your 10-20 year investment lasts.

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