JLR cuts waste with £100m investment
JLR has invested £100 in a reuse, refurbishment, repurposing and recycling drive to reduce waste across its industrial operations.
As part of the revamp of its facilities, tens of thousands of pieces of equipment and tools have been put back in circulation.
Instead of buying new equipment, JLR has reused over 50,000 sqm of kit from Castle Bromwich, which ceased production last year, the Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton and Graz, Austria.
These have since been redeployed across JLR sites in the UK and Nitra, Slovakia.
Meanwhile hundreds of second‑life robots are now installed at Solihull, Halewood, and the EPMC in Wolverhampton ready to produce JLR’s next generation electric vehicles and battery packs.
In addition, 18,600 tonnes of scrapped metal from Castle Bromwich and Graz have been sent to a supplier for recycling, helping to enable the reduction of CO2e emissions by 1,258kg per tonne of new steel generated from scrapped metal.
Andrea Debbane, chief sustainability officer, said:
“It’s not only the right thing to do, but it also improves profitability and increases supply chain resilience. Through these initiatives, JLR advocates that sustainable choices are not always more expensive, they can help reduce costs and even become opportunities for the growth and development of our colleagues.”
