RECYCLING

IN EXCESS OF

99

OF WASTE

Environmental &

Sustainability Practices

Steelite International work closely with a number

of suppliers and organisations, and are continually

monitoring, developing and improving procedures

to create minimum impact on the community and

environment, while ensuing maximum efficiency and cost

savings for the future sustainability of the business.

Steelite International is a member of The Green Organisation

that rewards and promotes environmental best practice around the

world, and the Staffordshire Business & Environmental Network, which

aims to help local businesses reduce environmental impacts while also

generating profits.

We have a dedicated and innovative approach to caring for the

environment. In 2019 Steelite were awarded an engineering gold Green

Apple Award for the implementation of a waste water centrifuge system.

Our new centrifuge system works by spinning waste material out of waste

water at very high speed, the water is separated from waste glaze and

then reclaimed saving around 20 cubic metres of water per day. This has

dramatically improved the quality of waste water that does leave site. A

part from significantly reducing water, it saves glaze and lowers energy

usage on site too.

In 2007, the business became one of only five companies in the UK to install

a Lamella system. Steelite is the only tableware manufacturer to use a

Lamella system for recycling clay waste.

In addition to clay recycling, fewer chemicals are now required to separate

waste. This has a positive effect on the environment and water discharged

from the site is also purer.

The Lamella has significantly reduced

Steelite International’s impact on the

environment The company now recycles

in excess of 99 of manufacturing waste

In 2010 we received a Green Apple

Award for the Lamella project

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