Our commitment to sustainability
Here at Simmonsigns, we are determined do our best to preserve the world’s natural resources. Here are some of the actions we are taking to help us achieve our goal.
In manufacturing and delivering our products
Within the business itself...
We are currently reviewing our overall energy usage to see how we can make our headquarters more energy efficient. This includes reducing both lighting and heating, increasing window insulation etc.
We encourage our team to car share or use public transport to help reduce emissions.
Across the business, we recycle as many materials as we can including paper, ink cartridges, aluminium, timber and batteries.
Reducing plastic
We have made changes to our Belisha beacon packaging to reduce single-use plastic waste and ensure it is kept to a minimum. Instead, we now use recyclable packaging.
We are also discouraging our team from bringing single-use plastics on to our premises and mixed recycling points are now in place throughout the building.
We use paperless ordering and invoicing, and we accept orders electronically. We can submit our invoices electronically, either by email with PDF attachment, or by entering them onto a web portal.
Reducing paper
As part of our work to reduce our use of paper, we have made huge strides with recycling and only printing documents when absolutely necessary.
A significant milestone for us is the recent introduction of a QR code which signposts customers to all our installation guides in the Resource Centre. Previously, printed instructions were sent with every product. Now we have replaced that with one QR code label on every product. Not only are we saving paper and ink, but there is an increase in production efficiency and a decrease in cost.
Additionally, customers and contractors alike are able to access product data and installation instructions wherever and whenever necessary.