Carbon Neutral Accident Repairs
Proud to be Your Carbon Neutral Accident Repair Specialists
We are extremely proud to be the first Vehicle Accident Repairer in the area that has achieved the PAS2060 Carbon Neutral Standard in 2022. This means that having your vehicle repaired by us is better for the environment.
What makes us Carbon Neutral and How Do We achieve this?
Our Carbon Emissions are calculated and analysed annually, the business and all the processes that you the customer and your vehicles goes through on your journey are reviewed. From the Customer Advisors you first speak to, to the technicians that carry out the repairs on your vehicle, to the delivery driver that carries out the collections and deliveries of your vehicle. Every year we endeavour to invest and improve to continually reduce our carbon footprint and help the environment.
Historically the painting process of a vehicle repair is one of the larger carbon producers. This is due to the amount of electricity used to light a spray booth whilst the paint is being applied, and the paint requires drying at a high temperature which is generated by using gas to heat the spray booth for 30 minutes.
We have invested in the latest technologies from the paint manufacturers, the paint we use is designed to be applied with only 2 visits by the technician, reducing the amount of electricity being used. The new technologies have also reduced paint drying times down to 5 – 15 minutes drying time reducing our gas consumption, with no compromise on paint quality. This latest technology in paint from BASF has the lowest VOC (Volatile Organic Content) on the market, meaning that this is the most environmentally friendly paint product ever produced by a paint manufacturer.
Electricity usage is the other main carbon producers within our business. This has a huge span of appliances running through everything we do. Tools and compressors in the workshop, computers in the office, electric car charge points, all the way down to the kettle we use for our customer refreshments create carbon.
In 2024 we invested in 164 Solar panels which is capable of generating 70 Kwh of electricity and can power our whole site. We’ve been able to further reduce our consumption by changing all our workshop and Spray Booth lighting to LED units. Any electricity we produce and don’t use is fed back into the grid to help electricity suppliers power the grid. Electricity we produce could be powering your kettle!
Carbon is also generated by waste materials generated from the repair process. An example of a simple vehicle repair we carry out is to fit a new front bumper and new front wing on a vehicle. This has a trail of waste materials attached to it. Plastic bumper, metal wing, cardboard and plastic that the new wing and bumper are packaged in, the plastic wrap that vehicles have whilst in the paint booth, cleaning materials we use to clean the spray guns, even the paper we use in the administrative side of the repair. Through using many different specialist companies we are able to recycle all of these waste materials.
Part of the commitment to the PAS2060 is that every year we improve with innovation and new technologies to further reduce any carbon. As we strive for Net Zero, we're committed to making a positive impact by investing in worldwide Carbon Neutral projects to offset any carbon we are responsible for.
