Environmental

Waste Management

A key element of our business’s sustainability is built around management of the non-hazardous and hazardous waste that TI Fluid Systems generates. Our focus is based around the following four elements: Reduce, Reuse, Refurbish, Recycle.

Reduce

Over the past several years we have worked with suppliers and customers on the development of reusable containers. The use of reusable containers reduces the amount of waste generated, particularly for wood and cardboard waste streams. We have a very strong scrap reduction initiative. Our operations, quality, and environmental teams work together to try to reduce scrap production. Scrap rates have been set as business KPIs and are tracked monthly. The reduction of scrap is an important waste and raw material conservation effort.

Reuse

Several elements of the business have found ways to reuse material and resources to minimise the generation of waste. Both of our divisions have programmes where we collect scrap plastic that has been either blow molded or injection molded that can be mechanically reground and reused in certain products we produce. This reuse is an important step used to both minimise waste generation and conserve raw materials.

Refurbish

Several of our plants are involved in returning slightly used or damaged wood pallets for refurbishment. This prolongs the life of the pallet and ultimately reduces the need to harvest additional wood for pallet construction.

Recycle

TI Fluid Systems has a strong recycling culture. Our plants have sought out recycling opportunities for cardboard, wood, plastics and metals for years. This culture supports our significant landfill avoidance.

Our ambition

We have been working on waste minimisation and reduction for years. In 2022, our EHS teams established a new baseline waste generation volume that incorporates hazardous and non-hazardous waste generation. With this new baseline, we are in the process of formalising a waste minimisation target and new landfill avoidance target. We have established our target for 2030, which are 90% landfill avoidance and 80% recycling rate for waste materials.