Environment

Reducing Environmental Impact

AVK recognises and embraces the responsibility we have to reduce our environmental impact and we continuously strive to minimise the impact our activities have on the climate. AVK’s environmental policy is built on an environmentally sound operation and is a natural part of the our Group’s objectives to minimise energy and water consumption. We continuously look to find ways to reduce our energy consumption, to include materials and products in recycling processes, to expand the use of renewable energy sources, and to handle waste in an environmentally responsible manner. 

Our ongoing improvements are documented by collecting data and setting targets for improvement. Already, we have pinpointed specific areas of attention within these areas: 

• Reduction of CO2 emission according to Scope 1 and 2
• Increasing the extent of application of renewable and Green energy sources 
• Mapping, tracking, and measuring the CO2 emissions in our operations and per product 
• Ensuring a positive and engaging communication on our environmental impact with our employees, our customers, and other stakeholders, to achieve the commitment required to succeed.

Our own companies and selected suppliers must consume less energy. This is the reason we are going to implement processes and activities that help us move towards:

• Minimum energy consumption as a core criterion of the design and production process
• Low energy consumption as a preference for investments
• A fixed level of investments that are earmarked for energy-saving
• Implementing ISO 50001 on energy management no later than 2025.

ISO 14064

To ensure relevant implementation and maintaining energy improvement initiatives, we will measure our GHG emissions is accordance with ISO 14064

AVK Products and Services - Sustainable Innovations

AVK products are part of many solutions and applications that have a positive impact on the environment, both in terms of operation and lifetime, but we also seek to ensure that the production of our products have the least possible impact on the environment. During the planning process and execution of projects, we have a strong focus on ensuring that our processes and our handling of environmentally harmful substances are secure in order to avoid a negative impact on the surrounding environment. 

The superior design quality of AVK products helps to minimise the effects of AVK products on the environment. AVK Products are built with key considerations: ease of installation; reliability; longevity and low maintenance therefore taking consideration of the full life cycle impact.

We are committed to the development of products that further reduce the impact on the environment of either our products (reduced carbon and/or increased longevity) or through the provision of solutions to environmental challenges such as water loss and energy consumption.  We are proud to offer our customers and society a range of sustainable innovations including our expanding range of Smart Water solutions.

We are also able to offer sustainable services such as valve refurbishment through our sister business Glenfield Invicta and our Emergency call out service our engineers will reduce the amount of waste water or gas at the point of a leak using AVK repair clamps.

Waste Management ISO 14001

As part of our environmental management system, ISO 14001, our production companies continuously monitor all discarded materials. It is our objective that we always dispose of discarded materials in an environmentally sound way. In order to reducing our environmental impact, we will work extensively with the principles of circular economy and ensure that our discarded materials can be recycled and thereby be part of a recycling cycle.

We consider resource efficiency and ultimately zero waste as a way of promoting innovation, reduce costs and minimising the environmental impact across our value chain. This is in line with the UN’s SDG 12, which is related to sustainable development in order to ensure responsible consumption and production patterns. Therefore, we have a strong focus on avoiding landfill.

At AVK, we have a strong focus on sustainability in our production – both in terms of using recycled materials such as plastic and iron in the production of new products, but also in terms of using renewable energy to run the production.