Investing in the future at Broxap Street Furniture

Investing in the future at Broxap Street Furniture

As a responsible manufacturer, Broxap are continually looking for ways to optimise their processes for the benefit of the environment.

Over the last two years, a series of significant investments have been made in their office and fabrication sites. Each has been considered not only to deliver an improved impact on performance, but also for minimal impact on the environment.

They want their customers to be sure that specifying Broxap Street Furniture means they are not only assured a quality product, but also a responsibly manufactured product.

Manufacturing sustainably with timber
Timber is said to be nature’s own building material.

Because they use responsibly sourced timber as well as FSC-certified timber, they support sustainable forestry from well-managed sites.

Timber is fully renewable with replenished forests helping to regulate the climate and clean the air, as well as support the earth’s biodiversity.

The production and processing of wood also uses less energy than with many other building materials.

With the development of structural timber, such as glulam beams, they've expanded their timber product range over the years to include contemporary seating, timber canopies, bollards and playground equipment.

Offering natural strength properties and delivering an attractive look and feel to products, using timber results in products with a long and durable service life.

But thanks to their factory innovations, the benefits of manufacturing with timber are stretching much further.

Whole product cycle
At their base in Chesterton, North Staffordshire, they’re investing in six wood waste heaters.

As well as reducing their reliance on other forms of energy for heat, they’re putting their wood waste to good use.

Briquetting technology has in the first instance been purchased by their teams who are always looking for ways to improve efficiency.

The briquetting machine takes hardwood shavings and sawdust waste generated in the timber workshop and processes it into ‘bales’ for use in the burners.

These are then burned cleanly in the WT15 Heater Units.

The investment comes on the back of their certification as a Zero Waste to Landfill business.

Already they ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ materials wherever possible, gaining the most they can from them while generating the least waste.

This includes reusing timber offcuts from their wood workshop as spacers when packing finished products and recycling softwood shavings from the extraction system as animal bedding.

Supporting the sustainability aims of clients
Of course, as UK designers, manufacturers and suppliers of litter and recycling bins, they also help their customers to avoid sending waste to landfill.

And the longevity of their high quality products also delivers a greater environmental impact by contributing to sustainable consumption.

To find out more about their sustainable manufacturing practices, read their blog here.

Or for more on how specifying Broxap Street Furniture can support your project’s social commitments, visit their blog outlining their business values.

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Broxap is the home of street furniture – they build, manufacture, deliver and install an extensive range of seating, litter bins, bollards and planters; shelters, canopies and walkways; cycle storage and parking products; and play, sports and outdoor...
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