Paul Fabrications recognises that environmental impacts are created as a result of the activities carried out at its manufacturing site, and that it has a responsibility to manage these, not just to the shareholders, but also to its employees, customers and to the community within which it operates. Paul Fabrications manages these impacts through Environmental Management Systems (EMS) implemented in line with ISO14001.

Paul Fabrications is committed to continual improvement in environmental performance through adoption of the following policies:

• Improvements in the efficiency of energy and raw material use
• Reductions in waste disposal and increased proportions of waste reuse and recycling
• Compliance with environmental legislation, regulations and other requirements to which it subscribes
• Prevention of pollution through reductions in the use of hazardous materials, and where their use is unavoidable, ensuring safe and efficient storage, use and disposal of such materials
• Minimising the impact on the local community by addressing nuisance issues
• Encouraging our customers, suppliers, employees and shareholders to reduce the environmental Impacts of there own activities where possible.

This policy provides the framework for setting and reviewing environmental objectives and targets designed to deliver continual improvement in environmental performance. It is a publicly available document and is communicated to all employees.

Paul Fabrications are working towards being fully ISO 14001 approved within the next 12 months.

Since moving to its current premises in 2005 it has actively worked to improve its impact on the environment

* Energy management system implemented.
* Reduced water usage by 50%.
* Halved the amount of packaging materials purchased.
* Land-fill volumes have been drastically reduced through segregation and recycling by 81%.
* Hazard and non-hazard waste disposal reduced by 50% due to process efficient systems.
* Chemicals purchased and used have been reduced by 40%.
* Improved manufacturing process to minimise material wastage, for example using laser cutting machines to maximise yield output from sheet material, an estimated 15% per sheet no longer goes to for scrap.