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“ We still need to build new homes in the UK – the new government has continued to talk around the need for 300,000 homes to be built each and every year. VertaseFLI with its ability to develop the circular economy and re-purpose land is ideally placed to support this drive. We haven’ t come across a site that we couldn’ t bring back to the market.
“ The new updates on the National Planning Policy Framework are focused on the continued development of brownfield land. We see our capability to support funding organizations and developers to deliver those aims as one of the cornerstones of the VertaseFLI business.” Trevor then goes on to outline some of the recent sustainability developments that the group is pursuing:“ As well as the appointment of a new sustainability manager, who will support the business in achieving its sustainability goals, FLI Group has also begun an already beneficial partnership with Future Planet, which is assisting us with the DMA process.
“ Engagement with Future Planet has been really positive. We created a small working group with sustainability champions from each of the business units within the group. Then, with Future Planet and Daniel, our Sustainability Manager, we drive those plans through.
“ There are a number of other initiatives that have been implemented for some time that demonstrate our absolute commitment to our sustainability work, including the brownfield and contaminated land remediation work that’ s bringing challenged land back to market. We have also developed and adopted processes that facilitate the reuse of water. This means that mains water used by some of our industrial wastewater processes can be redeployed into existing factories for cleaning purposes. That’ s a really strong development that we’ re excited about.
“ We also have solar panels on our factory to support the electricity usage within the factory, and we harvest rainwater so that it can be utilized in our production processes. To continue to push our sustainability approach, I suppose, perhaps slightly unusually, we’ ve embarked on honey production within the factory. We bought some hives and populated those hives with local bees that now produce quite significant amounts of honey. When local people want a pot of honey, they’ re able to come to the factory and get one, often for free. We’ re trying to give a little bit back.”
Trevor concludes by outlining the group’ s ambitions for the coming year:“ We see 2025 as a year of continued growth both in terms of sales volume and, primarily, in terms of being sustainably profitable. That’ s our goal. We’ ll also continue to seek new opportunities to bring some of our innovative solutions to newer markets. 2025 will be a very exciting year.” ■
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