SERVICE
As stated in our Environmental policy, we are convinced of our commitment to deploy environmentally sound policy wherever possible. This is achieved by a combination of performance monitoring and by reducing the use of materials, power consumption and pollution through efficiency measures and compliance with waste management policy and regulations.
FORESTRY MANAGEMENT
The process of environmental consideration starts with the choice of materials in use. The paramount consideration involved is the commitment to purchase timber from sustainable sources, which we do through the highly controlled Finnish Forest Certification Scheme for softwoods and through certification for hardwoods. Through the management of forestry, where timber is harvested and replaced with new trees, the carbon dioxide absorbing properties of the forest are maximised, as younger trees are more efficient at performing this transfer. I. D. Products is in full support of the sentiments of the Wood for Good environmental campaign.
WASTE MANAGEMENT
At I. D. Products all residual waste from the manufacturing processes are sold on to other commercial entities for conversion to particle board or animal bedding and off-cuts of timber are traded with other businesses for their services. With packaging from deliveries being reused for various processes on the shop floor, the figures for waste and cost of waste disposal are almost negligible.
uPVC
The cost of a window should not be judged merely in terms of the initial capital cost, but rather on a figure including maintenance, repairs, and energy losses spread over the life of the product. Timber windows are increasingly demonstrating both significant financial, and overall life expectancy advantages over units manufactured from other materials. Further to this is the very persuasive environmental argument in favour of timber.
Broadly speaking timber frames require 10 times less energy than aluminium to convert the raw materials to the finished product and 20 times less than uPVC. Timber is the only renewable joinery material currently in existence and does not create the disposal issues of plastics. The production and disposal of uPVC windows involves no less than 6 of the 15 most hazardous chemicals listed by European governments for priority elimination.
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'It is no longer a question of if PVC should be phased out, but how it shall be phased out.' Swedish Minister for the Environment |