4 ways Veritek Global is honouring World Environment Day 2024
World Environment Day 2024 takes place on Wednesday, 5th June. The day is honoured annually and reminds businesses of the work they can do to protect the environment and create a more sustainable and decarbonised world.
As a company, Veritek Global is committed to being part of the solution.
To provide OEMs with the after-sales services they need to deliver customer satisfaction while managing their environmental impact, Veritek takes its lead from the circular economy.
The circular economy advocates reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling existing products. The aim is to extend the life of products and turn waste into a resource.
Here are four ways Veritek is taking a circular economy approach:
1. Working to become a sustainable member of our OEM customers’ supply chains.
EcoVadis is the world’s most trusted sustainability ratings provider. Achieving an EcoVadis Silver Medal for sustainability management and performance reflects Veritek’s commitment to pursuing sustainable and profitable practices to deliver quality remote and onsite field engineering services.
2. Reusing and recycling packaging
Cutting down on packaging is a priority for Veritek’s warehouse teams.
Although cardboard is a greener and more sustainable type of packaging, it doesn’t make sense to put a cardboard box into a recycling bin because it just gets recycled into another cardboard box.
The most effective way to reduce cardboard waste is not to create it. For this reason, Veritek:
- Diverts cardboard from recycling and stores it in a dedicated space
- Takes cardboard boxes in good condition and resizes and reshapes them so the company can reuse them and keep them in constant use.
Business and environmental benefits of recycling packaging
- Increases sustainability in the supply chain
- Reduces use of raw materials, in particular, paper and energy
- Less landfill and resulting methane emissions
- Reducing and recycling cardboard waste reduces business costs.
3. Repairing OEMs’ equipment
Well-designed, installed, and maintained equipment minimises environmental damage.
But sometimes, parts get broken through everyday wear and tear.
To keep equipment out of the waste stream, Veritek has repair centres located across Europe.
Here, Veritek’s OEM-trained technicians diagnose problems and restore equipment to its original condition.
Business and environmental benefits of repairing equipment
- Promotes manufacturing efficiency
- Keeps equipment operating reliably for longer
- Reduces emissions
- OEMs can use repair findings to pinpoint issues and improve product performance
4. Refurbishing OEMs’ equipment
OEMs that embrace the refurbishment of large equipment reduce the damaging effects of waste on the environment by breathing new life into legacy equipment.
During a refurbishment project, Veritek meets OEMs’ stringent quality assurance standards when it:
- De-installs equipment
- Cleans it
- Restores equipment to its original factory settings by replacing worn-out or critical parts with OEM parts to ensure compatibility
- Fully tests the equipment before redeploying it
Business and environmental benefits of refurbishment projects
- Extends the life span of mission-critical equipment
- Improves energy efficiency
- Lowers greenhouse gas emissions
- Quality is assured because Veritek inspects and tests components against OEM specifications
- Enhances customer satisfaction by delivering exceptional value, a high level of performance and reliability
In summary
Every business needs to play its part in confronting waste as a driver of climate change.
Thinking creatively and changing attitudes towards reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing products is an excellent place to start.
When OEMs offer preventative maintenance, repair and refurbishment through reliable service centres, they can reduce environmental impact and costs by reducing resource consumption and waste production.
Better still, they can improve performance and increase customer satisfaction.
Working with an OEM-trained and certified repair specialist with a sustainability culture, such as Veritek, ensures quality and reliability.
There’s #OnlyOneEarth. So what could be more important?
🌍🌱 Happy World Environment Day! 🌱🌍
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