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Alpha rowen
Mike Leach, MD, January 2022
Mike Leach, MD, January 2022
We are a key link in our customers supply chain, working to ensure a timely, high quality service that will enhance our customer’s product.
At Alpha-Rowen Ltd, we recognise that to satisfy our customers’ needs we must pursue the objective of "never ending improvement" in all aspects of our business. To assist us in this philosophy we have a quality assurance management system certificated to ISO 9001:2015.
We also recognise that we need the full co-operation and support of all our employees to continually meet our objective. We ensure all our personnel are fully aware of the company’s objectives and we re-enforce this through on-going training and educational programmes throughout the company.
From the early days when we first looked at process efficiencies and equipment development, the technical know-how of you and your staff has been very important to our journey at Alpha Rowen. As a heat treatment company we are high energy users with particular bias towards natural gas. This means that we have a lot of work to do to decarbonise and this isn't easy without the external resources that you provide.
More recently, the energy assessments that have led to the sub-metering projects, and then the development of these data cloud-based portals, have been incredibly useful to us. The Energy Portal enabled us to identify where we were wasteful and target important savings. It also directed our purchasing strategies and helped refine our work patterns. This proved vital when we had to deal with the energy crises of recent years.
The evolution of the energy portal to the carbon portal has helped provide important information as we try to respond to requests for CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) information from customers. it will also provide us with an important tool as we endeavour to reduce our carbon footprint and become more sustainable.
Supporting this technical advice has been the practical support in navigating access to funding. the progress we have made would not have been possible without funding support and it is fair to say that we would have struggled to access the funding without the clear advice and guidance we received from Pro Enviro.
We, at Alpha-Rowen Ltd, have been working with the team at Pro Enviro for the last 12 years. As a company we have high energy consumption and the cost of this, as well as changing legislation, is of huge concern. We initially engaged Pro Enviro to help us understand our energy usage as well as support us with legislative changes. We have subsequently run several projects with them, that have seen us replace and improve several aspects of our equipment over time. These have given us energy consumption savings and therefore CO2e reductions; ultimately also giving us a positive impact to our bottom line. The knowledge and experience provided by Pro Enviro has also enabled us to successfully access funding for the majority of these projects. With the move to a lower carbon economy, we see their support as being crucial to designing and implementing our Low Carbon Strategy.