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20.03.2021: Newest environmental knowledge confirms British marque is on track to change into the worlds most sustainable luxurious automotive maker
Optimistic advances in opposition to Bentleys plans to cut back production-related environmental impression by 75 per cent over a 15 yr perio
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Newest environmental knowledge confirms British marque is on track to change into the world’s most sustainable luxurious automotive maker
Optimistic advances in opposition to Bentley’s plans to cut back production-related environmental impression by 75 per cent over a 15 yr interval to 2025
Vital fall in CO2 emissions and water utilization in comparison with 2010 baseline displays key ideas of discount and reuse
Waste discount charges additionally enhance as Manufacturing colleagues deal with round financial system method to drive paradigm shift in sustainability
Bentley revealed the most recent environmental and sustainability knowledge for the corporate’s manufacturing operations in Crewe, taking the model nearer to its bold bid to change into the world’s most sustainable luxurious automotive producer. In comparison with its 2010 baseline, the British luxurious model reported important enhancements in all areas, and is on monitor to ship an bold 75 per cent discount in production-related environmental impression by 2025.
Information for the interval 2010-2020 reveals a dramatic fall in CO2 emissions on the Pyms Lane plant, down a outstanding 99.5 per cent to simply 29 kg per car, that are offset. This drop in CO2 emissions is predominantly the results of Bentley utilising vitality generated by way of its onsite photo voltaic PV system, alongside inexperienced fuel and electrical energy provides within the manufacturing facility for the primary time over a full 12-month cycle.
A spread of different revolutionary measures taken on the dwelling of the world’s most sought-after luxurious automotive model have additionally added to the impression. These embrace the set up of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuelling services – an ultra-low emissions various to standard fuels for in home logistics.
The quantity of water utilized in car manufacturing has fallen by 55.9 per cent over the identical 10-year interval, from 21.1 cubic metres per car, to 9.31 cubic metres per car. This saving of almost 12 cubic metres per car equates to round 150 bathtubs stuffed with water – and has been achieved by putting in water recycling techniques, coupled with a discount in ‘home’ water use on web site as extra colleagues labored from dwelling.
In the meantime, because of enhancements in recycling processes, which mirror a round financial system method, the very small quantity of waste materials that can’t be recycled and is shipped to landfill fell by 99.1 per cent in comparison with 2010, to simply 3.57 kg/car final yr.
Peter Bosch, Member of the Board for Manufacturing, explains:“Creating Bentley’s local weather optimistic ‘dream manufacturing facility’ sits on the coronary heart of our Beyond100 technique to change into the world’s most sustainable luxurious automotive model, and displays the “go to zero” ethos of the whole Volkswagen Group, which is now in its tenth yr of measuring manufacturing associated environmental impression.
“By specializing in useful resource effectivity and a round financial system method, our 2025 goal is to cut back our production-related environmental impression by 75 per cent in comparison with 2010 – so we’re delighted that the most recent knowledge reveals such optimistic progress within the areas of vitality, water and supplies.
“Everybody inside Bentley’s manufacturing operations has an element to play to make sure we meet these targets, so we’ve begun 2021 by participating colleagues within the launch of our new ‘Wings’ manufacturing technique, which can see us pioneer a paradigm shift in onsite sustainability”.
Wayne Bruce- photograph Bentley
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