How to Make Hardware Products Responsibly...

... by replanting a forest in Thailand, specifying re-cycled plastic in China, and brass content reduction in India. These steps have been taken by UAP, a leading supplier of door furniture products in the UK.

As an environmentally responsible company all UAP imports including door handles, knockers, letterplates, numerals, security viewers and cylinder locks, have been re-specified to reflect growing concerns over diminishing resources and carbon emissions during manufacture. One example is the company’s best-selling anti-vandal letterplates supplied to local authorities and housing associations where the frames are now made from 100% re-cycled plastic thus saving on oil resources, the white inner cartons in the packaging are no longer used and re-cycled shrink wrap substituted.

All UAP product packaging is recyclable as standard, and wherever possible metals and coatings have been changed in order to improve longevity and to make up for shortages due to increased world demand. Some of these new materials are also more eco-friendly to produce by avoiding the mining and foundry activities that not only create enormously damaging emissions but are also a drain on existing energy resources, and blemish the earth.

The company offices in Bury, Lancashire are carbon neutral due to the company's environmental policy which has included the installation of photovoltaic cells to provide an independent source of energy.

According to UAP Managing Director David Jennings, ‘It is said that if everyone does a little bit, we can turn around the problems that future generations will face. But we cannot afford to wait. Either for legislation, or for others to start things off for us. With precious little margin left for error we all have to take action now, each and every one of us in whatever way we can.’

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