environmental award
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Silverline has a strategic partnership with Abbeysteel™
the world’s first green brand of sustainably sourced
steel.
Silverline offer a range of storage solutions products with
Filling Cabinet Ranges Executive and M:Line containing
around 50% reused material and the S:Line and Freedom
ranges around 15%.
In July 2011, Silverline reached a record breaking milestone in Co² savings.
A trophy and unique certificate presentation was awarded in December at
Abbeysteel in Stevenage to Silverline reaching 10,000 tonnes of C02 saved from
being released into the atmosphere.
It was awarded by Stephen McPartland, Chair of the House of Commons select
Committee for Furniture to Silverline Chairman Stanley Ensinger.
The honour was in addition to
the usual quarterly certificate
that is issued to congratulate
Silverline for using Abbeysteel.
Stanley Ensinger, Silverline OE Ltd, Stephen McPartland, Chair of the
House of Commons select Committee for Furniture, and Phil Cooper,
Managing Director at Abbey Steel & Shearing Co Ltd.
About Abbeysteel™
Abbeysteel™ is the world’s first green brand of sustainably sourced steel that
has been created to showcase a prime steel by-product that is sourced from a
range of UK multi-industry applications. Abbeysteel™ combines the uniqueness
of a trademarked raw material and that of a sustainable material resource for
businesses that would like to show a reduced impact on the environment by
reusing materials.
Abbeysteel™ explained
Abbeysteel™ has been created
through identification of a waste
stream in the UK manufacturing
sector that is produced by some of
the UK’s larger industries. These
industries consume large quantities
of steel within their operations and
they produce material that is a pure
by-product of their processes.
This material is surplus to
requirements as they cannot utilise
it in any of their own application and
it would destined fro re-smelting and
forming into new steel. But instead
Abbeysteel reclaim this prime grade
steel, process it and put it back into
the supply chain. The steel we
typically receive is mild sheet steel
in the form of cut outs and off-cuts
in various specifications.
Abbey Steel has branded this
material as Abbeysteel™
Sustainably Sourced Steel – a
unique raw material that has had its
lifecycle extended, through
reworking it into a diverse range of
UK manufacturing industries.
How is Abbeysteel™ an
environmentally friendly
material?
Steel, unlike other materials, has a
unique property that allows it to be
continuously recycled and reused.
However not all steel needs to be
recycled as a percentage can be
reused in its present form. Re-
smelting steel produces on average
2.3 tonnes of Co² per tonne
recycled.
Extending material lifecycle through
reprocessing enables its diversion
away from the smelting process and
utilising it in its present form. Reuse
of materials instead of recycling
them is what makes Abbeysteel™ a
green manufacturing material.
www.abbeysteel.com
About Abbey Steel & Shearing Company Ltd Established more than 30 years ago, based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, Abbey Steel supplies manufacturer’s throughout the UK with a resource for all their steel; sheet, blanks, shapes, strip and coil requirements, together with a comprehensive processing service so that all metarial is precision sheared to their required specifications. BS EN ISO: 9001:2008 & BS EN ISO: 14001 Certified
Purchasing 1 Standard 4 Drawer Executive Filing Cabinet saves 177Kgs of Co² which is equivalent to 532 miles –
the average mileage of an economy car over a six week period or the same as the Co² emitted from a refrigerator
for 17 months.
Silverline have partnered with
Abbey Steel, owners of
Abbeysteel™ to help reduce our
carbon footprint.
Abbeysteel™ is a re-used steel by-
product that is sourced from the
automotive trade, that provides a
significant reduction in Co², for the
Executive and m:line ranges of
filing cabinet.
As authenticated by third parties.
Today we live in an environmentally conscious economy
where demand for products with improved environmental
performance is demonstrated by increasing consumer
preference, Government intervention and EU regulation.
In response we have augmented our existing filling
cabinet range to use Abbeysteel™ Sustainably Sourced
Steel a unique raw material that can show a significantly
reduced carbon footprint of the products that contain it.
Abbeysteel™ features in our Kontrax and Executive filing
cabinets ranges and as a result they now contain around
44% reused material.
In using Abbeysteel™ we are making the following
carbon savings per individual cabinet
FCEC2F Kontrax 2 drawer filing cabinet 75.9 Kg’s
FCEC3F Kontrax 3 drawer filing cabinet 111.7 Kg’s
FCEC4F Kontrax 4 drawer filing cabinet 145.62 Kg’s
FCEX2F Executive 2 drawer filing
cabinet
82.9 Kg’s
FCEX3F Executive 3 drawer filing
cabinet
122.3 Kg’s
FCEX4F Executive 4 drawer filing
cabinet
159.84 Kg’s
To put these Co2 savings in perspective, purchasing one Silverline four drawer executive filing cabinet
made with Abbeysteel™ produces a saving equivalent to driving an average economy car for six weeks.
Silverline can offer businesses the opportunity to
Demonstrate enhanced green credentials to customers and stakeholders
Demonstrate a reduced carbon footprint
Enhance and support existing activities to reduce operating impact on the environment
Buy office furniture with a certified reused content and guaranteed carbon savings.
Contact
+ 44 (0)1638 582700
www.silverline-oe.com