Anglia achieves Carbon Neutral status for its business operation

Anglia Components plc has announced that it has achieved Carbon Neutral Scheme accreditation, in partnership with ClimatePartner. This means that it will now offset the carbon emissions due to its business operations and commit to a robust forward looking plan to reduce its emissions in the future.  Anglia already maintains an effective Environmental Management System (EMS) that meets ISO 14001.

According to Claire Stevenson, Compliance, Health & Safety Manager at Anglia, the new scheme has strong support from customers and staff alike. “Anglia’s directors and management are fully committed to a sustainable continuous improvement system and achieving Carbon Neutrality is a logical next step. When customers started to ask us about carbon offsetting, we quickly took the decision that this was a concept we needed to embrace. Staff have been enthusiastic about the implementation of the policy, and we involved them in the selection of the scheme that we are using to offset our carbon emissions.”  She continued, “The carbon offsetting scheme is a central element of an enhanced sustainability policy for the business, which we will be publishing on our website.”

With the help of ClimatePartner, Anglia has calculated the carbon footprint of its operation on the basis of internationally recognised standards. This included direct emissions generated by the company (heat generation, vehicle fleet, and fugitive gases), emissions from purchased energy (electricity), and indirect emissions from purchased energy, business travel, and employee commuting. It then selected a scheme to sponsor to offset the carbon it generates. The scheme chosen by the staff includes re-afforestation in the UK and the protection of areas of the Amazon rainforest. Having established the current level of emissions and their source, Anglia will seek ways to avoid and/or reduce them.

Andrew Pridding, Sustainability Consultant at ClimatePartner congratulated Anglia on achieving Carbon Neutral status. He commented, “Anglia has taken a hugely important step in reducing the environmental impact of its business operation and making it more sustainable. By establishing a baseline for their corporate carbon footprint, they have a platform for building a science-based climate action strategy. We believe carbon accounting will soon become as ubiquitous as financial accounting. It isn’t currently mandatory to report corporate GHG emissions, but we believe it will be soon – and Anglia is ready.”

About Anglia
Anglia Components plc is the UK’s leading independent authorised distributor of semiconductors, optoelectronics, interconnect, passive and electromechanical components. A signatory of the ADS SC21 programme, the company holds AS9120, ISO9001 and ISO14001 accreditations.

Technically adept, with an experienced team of staff, Anglia supports OEM and EMS companies in every sector of electronics manufacturing. Anglia’s suppliers include many of the world’s leading electronic component brands, complemented by many smaller companies with leadership in their chosen technologies.

Anglia stocks over 2 billion components from over 1.3 million product lines in the UK. Components from every supplier are stocked in depth and breadth for same-day dispatch. Anglia aims to streamline logistics and reduce customers’ transaction costs through services that include VMI, KAN-BAN, API, EDI, BoM management tools and customer-dedicated inventory, while an accurate, on-time delivery performance is a vital goal for the company.

Technical support spans a sampling service that delivers over £150,000 worth of free components and evaluation tools each year and expert technical advice from well-trained product specialists and face-to-face guidance from field applications engineers. Both commercially and technically, management of industry legislation and component obsolescence are recognised as areas of vital importance to customers.

Anglia is driven by an ethos of ever-improving customer understanding and, as a privately owned business, aims to provide a fast, consistent and highly responsive service. Further information can be found at www.anglia.com