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As a business we are focused on circularity and continually reducing our impact on the environment.
Outlined below are our current sustainability initiatives. Our leadership team and associates across the business are frequently exploring how else we can reduce our impact on the environment.
Automated Logistics
On the 4th of March 2024 we introduced Autostore from Swisslog, where 14 Maybot robots pick our customer orders from 17,532 bins within the store. As well as being far more energy efficient to run, the main reasons for doing this was to improve the speed and accuracy of our order processing. In addition, this also allows us to consolidate an increasing number of our customer orders resulting in fewer consignments and deliveries being sent, benefiting both the customers and the environment.
With automation it also allows us to automatically choose the smallest possible outer box for each delivery, using less void filler.
Transportation & Distribution
Where a customer has a large order to be delivered from Mayflex that’s 8 pallets or more we can deliver this on a gas-powered vehicle that runs on a 13-litre CBG powered engine that runs on biomethane and results in:
- An 85% reduction in CO2 emissions
- 12% fewer NOx emissions
- 76% less particulate matter than a euro 6 diesel
- 50% quieter than diesel
- FORS registered vehicles are available to the Silver Standard
Cable Reels
We’ve been collecting and reusing wooden cable reels for some time, to date this has resulted in a saving of 83 tonnes of CO2 each year.
To improve this service further, for our fastest moving SKUs, we are moving to composite plastic reels made of recycled plastic which can be recycled after being used. These reels will be serial number tracked and once a customer has finished with them these will be collected by us and then reused. Once they’ve been used 10 to 12 times those reels will then be ground down and recycled to make other products.
With millions of metres of cable being sold and installed each year, the reduction in reels ending up in landfill will be significant.
FSC
The cardboard and paper that we use for packaging is made from FSC recyclable materials and is 100% recyclable.
Void Filler
Circularity is a key focus area for Mayflex we repurpose any cardboard and paper waste to make our own void filler.
Recyclable Shrink Wrap
The shrink wrap that we use to protect the Environ Racks and the pallets is made with reduced plastic content which is 30% recycled material and is 100% recyclable.
Crash Lock Cardboard Boxes
We use ‘crash lock’ boxes that remove the need to use any paper tape to seal the boxes, which makes it quicker and easier for customers to open the boxes and access their products with a simple tear-off strip. These boxes are made from 100% recycled card and are 100% recyclable.
Linerless Labels
Small changes have a big impact, with thousands of deliveries being made by Fedex every month, with the change to lineless labels on all our Fedex shipments we’ve removed 100% of the plastic backing.
Re-Cycling & Re-Purposing Crates and Pallets
To take circularity one step further we are working with a third-party provider to take the many wooden crates and wooden reels used, to be repurposed by a charity which helps the long-term unemployed people to gain new skills by making furniture out of waste wood which is then sold to the local community.
Multipacks
To reduce the product packaging further and to help increase the speed of installation we provide most Excel keystone jacks in a 24 multipack.
Plastic Free Packaging
With our Excel brand we were the first cabling manufacturer to remove all single use plastic from our packaging. Since 2019 this has resulted in over 85 million (212 tonnes) single-use plastic bags being removed from the supply chain. Based on our current annual sales this will increase by approx. 18.5 million single use plastic bags each year from ending up in landfill.
Mayflex currently holds the Ecovadis Silver rating which rates a business’s sustainability based on the following key categories:
We have produced Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for core products within the Excel product range.
These detailed reports are created and ratified by an external third-party provider, bre.
An EPD is a document that quantifiably demonstrates the environmental impacts of a product. An EPD is generated based on data obtained through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). An LCA is performed using a peer-reviewed Product Category Rules document (PCR) in line with EN 15804 (the European Standard for the generation of EPD for construction products), ISO 14025 and other related international standards. Each Excel EPD will help Specifiers, Architects, End Users and Designers to choose the most sustainable solution for each requirement.
Where they are available you can view each EPD by visiting the products on the online catalogue and clicking on the ‘Datasheets and Docs’ tab.
The TM65 certificate shows the embodied carbon for each product which documents the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the manufacture of the product, its installation, maintenance, repair, replacement and end of life and covers the whole life cycle, excluding operational aspects and potential recovery, reuse or recycling of materials.
We provide a CIBSE TM65 certificate for each of the Excel products in the range. You can see the CIBSE TM65 certificate by viewing the product on the online catalogue at www.excel-networking.com and clicking on the ‘Datasheets & Docs’ tab. We also show the total CO2 e total for each product on the overview description in the bullet points.
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