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A lean approach to business passes efficiency savings onto customers, ensures build consistency and quality, and creates a working environment that increases team productivity and boosts morale; Bruks Siwertell Group’s Bjuv, Sweden, business unit is working towards updating and improving 100 percent of its work processes, shortening lead times, and inspiring other units with best practice strategies.

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Bäckefors, Sweden, has commenced its implementation of ISO 14001, as part of Bruks Siwertell Group’s 2030 target to update and improve 100 percent of work processes. This standard is designed to offer assurance for personnel, customers and stakeholders, that a company’s environmental impact is being effectively measured and improved.

A tree is one of the most perfect examples of every element having a purpose, nothing needs to go to waste, even its dust. Trees also sequester carbon and can be viewed as renewable if sourced in the context of a well-managed, sustainable forest, making them an ideal candidate to plug the fossil-fuel gap.

All our large-scale Siwertell ship unloaders and loaders are designed and built to meet unique, site-specific operator requirements, and, much like being able to select features and upgrade options for a new car, there are many additional extras or choices available for our technology, right down to the color and thickness of final powder coatings.

The combined, automated technology, of Bruks stacker reclaimers makes them extremely cost-effective and efficient, and they substantially reduce the environmental impact of storing and reclaiming dry bulk materials, in comparison with manually managed piles.

Better use of inland waterways, and a modal shift towards barges, could be very good for the environment, according to research by the World Bank. Transferring just five percent of cargo volumes carried by road onto inland waterway transport (IWT), it says, could cut annual carbon emissions by around 60 megatons.

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Warehouses demand a lot of the personnel that operate within them. Part of Bruks Siwertell’s strategy for continuous improvement has recently seen the warehouse environment in Bjuv, Sweden, undergo a series of systematic improvements, working towards the Group’s sustainability targets of enhanced health and safety measures and zero workplace accidents.

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Bruks Siwertell Group’s Bjuv-based business unit in Sweden has recently fitted 24 electric vehicle charging points for personnel use. They are part of the Group’s strategy for reducing its carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030.

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Sustainability does not need to stand in opposition to profitability. At Bruks Siwertell we believe that both are possible, and nowhere is this more clearly demonstrated than in the wood-processing industry, where stakeholders work hard to make the most of the resources available.

India has over 7,500 km of coastline, and hundreds of ports. So, within this picture, its dry bulk sector plays a pivotal role; approximately 350 million metric tons of dry bulk were imported in 2019 and around 75 million metric tons exported in the same year.