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Case Studies

Ivan Wood & Sons (November 2011) - Freshness Guaranteed - and green, too!
Supplying hotels and catering establishments with fine quality fruit and vegetables 365 days a year means freshness is crucial and refrigerators are essential. For Ivan Wood and Sons in Ballingry, supplying fruit and vegetables on this scale requires a warehouse with vast industrial refrigerators equivalent to up to 2,000 domestic kitchen appliances! The electricity bill was a staggering £1,200 per month.

Better World Books - Better World Books – Taking the Green Ethos Right Through the Business
Few discussions with companies about their green credentials include the phrase “triple bottom line” and as Better World Books admits on their website it does sound a bit like dull management speak. In fact, it sums up the ethos of this unusual company very succinctly – it’s all about people, planet and profit.

Muir Construction - Sustainability - not just for the environment, but a sound business strategy too
Muir Construction embarks on the largest PV cell installation in Central Scotland

Recycle Fife - Turning a campaign into a business!
When Ballingry residents, Jackie Dunsmuir and Frankie Hodge, campaigned against landfill proposals back in 2003, they really took their cause all the way and ended up as Directors of a brand new enterprise which answered their concerns!

CORE - Getting to the Core of the Problem
Following the European example, where significant food waste is collected at the kerbside, the social enterprise Core, part of Cyrenians, has introduced a dedicated food waste collection and recycling service to composting. The company is the first to offer such a Food Waste Management service.

FMC Technologies Dunfermline - 2010 Update
FMC set ambitious three year targets in 2007 to achieve zero waste to landfill; source 12% of electricity from renewable energy; reduce carbon emissions by 28% and reduce water use by 25% - all by the end of 2010.

Living Water Ecosystems - Winner of the Water Award, Green Business Fife Awards 2009
It is quite a journey from being invited by an 'unofficial organisation' into the Soviet Union to see the ecological problems created by aluminium factories and other industries across vast swathes of countryside to running a successful company applying ecological principles to solve water and waste problems from beneath the wartime gun emplacements in North Queensferry.

ScotAsh - Joint Winner - "Environmental Innovation Award" Green Business Fife Awards 2009
Very few businesses can claim that the more products they sell, the greater the environmental benefits they deliver. It sounds like the ideal green business proposition and ScotAsh in Kincardine-on-Forth is proof that it can be done.

Nu-Phalt - Joint Winner -
Potholes! There are, quite literally, millions of potholes on Scottish and UK roads, causing damage to cars and delays for motorists. £1.8 billion is needed to repair Scotland's road network using traditional methods. In addition, Scottish Councils have paid out more than £2m in compensation over the past five years for claims connected with road defects. Enter Nu-Phalt, a Rosyth based company with 25 years experience of designing and manufacturing heaters for domestic and commercial use.

Fife Joinery Manufacturing Ltd - Winner - "Zero Waste Award" Green Business Fife Awards 2009
As the winner of the "Zero Waste Award" at this year's Green Business Fife Awards, Fife Joinery Manufacturing Ltd in Glenrothes can sum up their credentials as "100% timber in, 100% timber out".

Kingdom Shopping Centre - Winner - "The Energy Award" in Green Business Fife Awards 2009
Imagine the electricity bill for a 430,000 sq ft building that has to maintain an attractive and safe environment for staff and shoppers 24 hours a day. Consider the volume of waste and the amount of water used by 190,000 people visiting every week.

Itasco Precision Ltd - Winner of "Best Newcomer" in the Green Business Fife Awards 2009
Itasco Precision Ltd may have won the "Best Newcomer" title at this year's Green Business Fife Awards, but this four year old precision weld cladding and machining company shrugged off their "novice" status on environmental management some time ago as the Directors realised that good environmental practice really is good for business.

CMS Enviro Systems Ltd - Winner - "Waste Award" in the Green Business Fife Awards 2009
Despite housing hundreds and hundreds of old, disused doors and windows, the CMS Enviro Systems facility in Glenrothes is immaculately, and impressively, organised.

Lomond Homes - 'building a sustainable future'
Building company, Lomond Homes, is one of Scotland's leading examples of construction companies embedding sustainability into everything they do.

BSkyB - seeing 'The Bigger Picture'
Broadcasting company, BSkyB ('Sky'), made major carbon reductions and became became the world's first carbon neutral media company.

Seahawk Clothing - even small companies can gain
Clothing manufacturers, Seahawk Clothing, has proved that even small companies can make changes that benefit the environment, staff and the company's financial performance.

Quaker Oats - making oats good business sense
Oats cereals and bars producers, Quaker Oats, took on a funded student placement to reduce the amount of waste that the site was sending to landfill.

Kettle Produce - eat your greens and go green
Food growers, Kettle Produce, took on a funded student placement and identified major cost benefits in refrigeration, machinery, lighting and compressed air.

Ardmel Group - energy efficient manufacturing
Machine and clothing manufacturers, Ardmel, successfully secured a loan to upgrade their existing compressor with a new energy efficient model.

Fairmont St Andrews - hotel guests see the difference
Major hotel and golf complex, Fairmont St Andrews, made significant savings from improving resource efficiency.

Brand & Rae - going green block by block
Building materials manufacturers, Brand & Rae, became the first Scottish company to use mainly recyled materials in building blocks which led to major new business opportunities.

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