UKES can support  clients in their commitment to minimising the environmental impact of the company's activities, and develop a more sustainable means of operating their business.

Factory Environmental Audits, based on ISO 19011:2002, can enable operational improvements targetted by meaningful information.

• Compliance - can identify whether the business is operating in compliance with environmental laws and guidelines (BS EN ISO 14001:2004).
• Mass Balance for raw materials - can identify wastage, inefficient change-overs, stock control, non-optimised process stages
• Water & effluent balance - for hot, treated and softened water circuits. Cost savings for recycling, water metering, discharge consents, treatment chemicals
• Utilities configuration - inefficient air compressor arrangments, steam boiler firing and blow-down sequencing, imbalanced electrical power factor correction
• Assist with BREEAM Assessment - review of buildings efficiency, AHU, building management systems, occupation activated lighting, etc.

Strategic Investment for equipment reducing the company's carbon footprint is showing a pay-back. For a typical soft drinks operation water and electricity are the two largest areas of consumption. Previous examples of energy efficiency projects include

• Recovery of high pressure compressed air for blow moulding
• CO₂ reclaim systems for fermentation, re-used for gas flushing.
• Combined Heat & Power (CHP) plant, using by-product material as fuel
• PIR activated and energy efficient compact T5 tube high bay lighting systems
• Grey water filtration scheme for use in non-process areas
• Transfer sites to ammonia-based refrigeration systems for AHU & process
• Use of "smart" motor inverters to minimise losses and phase harmonics

Waste Water and Air-bourne Emissions are coming under increasingly tighter controls, as manufacturers are expected to manager their own by--products. UKES have experience of installation and redesign of waste water treatment systems incorporating DAF, MBR and activated sludge stages.

Over-ground tank systems

Control of fumes emmited from santisation processes such as PerAcetic Acid, Caustic Soda, Nitric Acid have been supressed by use of wet scrubbers, or venturi impingement systems, to 99.9% absorbtion levels.

Dust and particuates, collected via cyclones and reverse-jet fibre filters

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