Wessex Galvanisers

Wedge incorporates and promotes the implementation of sustainable working practices into its core business, by allowing each of its 14 plants across the UK to develop, manage and control their own environmental impacts. We actively seek to ensure practices across the whole business are as sustainable as possible, despite there currently being no pressure from regulators to meet specific standards. The Group believes that the authorities will eventually introduce regulations which companies across the industry will be required to meet, and by this time, it will be well ahead of the game. Rather than having a general policy that merely ticks a box, Wedge Group Galvanizing has developed bespoke guidelines that are wholly in-line with the nature of our business and which set out sustainability practices across the group, encompassing every physical building that the group occupies, as well as the materials and processes that we use, which all look to improve energy use and environmental performance. We ensure that these aims are met through the provision of an Environmental Management System (EMS) framework that allows each plant to develop a site specific EMS to manage and control environmental impacts giving due regard to local circumstances. All business management systems must be maintained to meet or exceed the requirements, with each Director and General Manager being accountable for reinforcing the requirements of this policy. The overarching guiding principles set out The Group's aim to reduce the environmental impact of its operations and activities to a minimum by the prevention of pollution, waste minimisation and efficient use of its resources, and to continually promote energy-efficiency through the use of cost-effective, energy reduction methods.