Energy efficiency award for Scottish Leather Group
Scottish Leather Group has been awarded the Carbon Trust’s 2012 Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing Award. The award was presented at Scottish Engineering’s Annual Awards Dinner in Glasgow on May 17.
The company was awarded for the energy efficiency measures it has implemented across its three sites, which have resulted seen CO2 emissions drop more than 3,000 tonnes per year. This equates to a 46% decrease in CO2 consumption, leaving the company £900,000 better off each year.
Paul Wedgwood, manager of Carbon Trust Scotland, said: “The commitment to investment in their thermal energy plant has been visionary. Meanwhile, they continue to deliver through a range of energy management projects and practices across the business.”
Warren Bowden, director at SLG Technology, said: “The world leather industry’s first Thermal Energy Plant opened at our Bridge of Weir site in 2010. It shows how we stand out as an innovator and is enabling us to produce leather sustainably and market our unique brand of low carbon leather to customers such as Aston Martin and Jaguar Land Rover.”
Scottish Leather Group comprises four leather manufacturing subsidiaries: Andrew Muirhead and Son, Bridge of Weir Leather Company, W J and W Lang, and NCT Leather. The group produces leathers for the furniture, marine, automotive and aviation sectors.
