High Density Fibre Connectivity
Very Small Form Factor
Fibre DuctOur work focuses on three strategic pillars:
Sustainability Credentials
Our Environmental Impact
Energy-efficient lighting throughout offices and warehouses, reducing electricity usage by 150 kWh per working day.
We use a central system to continuously monitor and optimise energy consumption across our facilities, helping us identify opportunities for further savings.
Where supply contracts allow, we are moving toward renewable energy sources to reduce our reliance on grid mixed electricity.
Autostore robotics improve energy efficiency and reduce handling time.
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.
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:
85% reduction in CO2 emissions
12% fewer NOx emissions
76% less particulate matter than an euro diesel
50% quieter than diesel
FORS registered vehicles are available to the Silver Standard
We are encouraging company car drivers to use electric vehicles, supported by EV charging points installed at HQ and Environ warehouse.
Removed over 100 million single use plastic bags from packaging since 2019 and replaced with natural brown recyclable packaging.
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.
The shrink wrap, used to wrap and protect the Environ floor racks and wall boxes and to wrap boxes onto a pallet, is made from 30% recycled material and is 100% recyclable.
Where void filler is required, we re-purpose our waste cardboard and paper and turn it into void filler. Not only is it 100% recycled and recyclable it is also saving over 3,500kg of cardboard from our operation each year.
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.
Rather than printing instructions and installation manuals, our packaging includes QR codes that can be scanned to take you to the exact information you need.
The cardboard and paper that we use for packaging is made from FSC recyclable materials and is 100% recyclable.
We use ‘crash lock’ boxes that remove the need to use paper tape to seal the boxes, making it quick and easy for customers to access their products with a simple tear-off strip. These boxes are made from 100% recycled card and are 100% recyclable.
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.
To reduce the product packaging further and to help increase the speed of installation we provide most Excel keystone jacks in a 24 multipack.
Circularity in Action
We have new service allowing customers to return used fibre cable reels for reuse or recycling, helping you meet circular economy goals too!
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.
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.