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Foilco understands that environmental awareness is present in the majority of economic sectors. Environmental friendliness and sustainability are no longer only of interest to enthusiastic idealists.
No company can afford to make environmental policy low priority. Customers and investors are increasingly requesting that clear steps towards improving environmental balance should, and will, be demonstrated.
Historically, at Foilco has always sensibly organised its internal activities aligned to the responsible protection of the environment, being able to use its own ideas and concepts for good environmental management. However, what is being done internally for environmentally friendly production is then not transparent for external groups (customers, investors, creditors). Moreover, the effectiveness of these self-created environmental management systems may not be fully appreciated by external parties.
Recognising that it was already ‘doing the right thing’ wasn’t sufficient to reflect this commitment, so Foilco needed to find a way of presenting itself to customers and business partners as a company that demonstrably supports environmental protection on an international level.
Foilco decided that the application for certification to the ISO 14001:2015 standard would be made.
‘There were many improvement tools and lean methodologies involved in the standard which were existing ‘ways we work’ such as plan, do, check, act – (PDCA) and strengths, weakness, opportunities, threats – (SWOT),’ said Graham Towns, general manager.
At the final audit where certification is determined the BSI operations manager stated: ‘There were no major or minor non-conformance(s) at any point of the assessment. A first in my career as a BSI ISO auditor!’
Foilco now has a dual business management system that incorporates the 9001:2015 and 14001:2015 standard that is demonstrable on an international basis.
