Lavery/Pennell’s research into the Next Manufacturing Revolution and the New Industrial Model is cited as evidence for and quantification of the benefits of ‘An Economy that Works’ in the Aldersgate Group’s December 2014 publication. The report can be viewed at this link: An Economy that Works  

The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Manufacturing and Sustainable Resource Groups yesterday released a new report presenting the economic, social and environmental potential of remanufacturing and recommending a range of government support measures. Drawing on evidence including Lavery/Pennell’s Next Manufacturing Revolution and New Industrial Model reports, the publication is well timed to influence party manifestos in the lead-up to the 2015 General

Sustainability teams in leading global companies are re-inventing themselves to move from squeezed cost centres to vital profit centres. They have realised that they must be able to answer the question: “What is the return on investment of the sustainability team?” Sustainability under Pressure Many sustainability teams, including those in DJSI leaders, are under pressure. Cost cutting is shrinking staff and

At the recent EPSRC Industrial Sustainability conference, Greg Lavery of Lavery/Pennell and Professor Steve Evans from the University of Cambridge spoke on recent developments and emerging themes in the field of non-labour resource efficiency. This included an examination on the impacts of the Next Manufacturing Revolution, the New Industrial Model and the Foresight Report into the Future of Manufacturing. The

This video explains the £1.9B p.a. energy saving opportunity available to UK manufacturers and how Nestlé has made substantial energy efficiency improvements. Despite ongoing improvements in energy use, the Next Manufacturing Revolution study* identified Energy Efficiency as a major opportunity for UK manufacturers worth: £1.9B p.a. in cost savings 19.2 MtCO2e in greenhouse gas emission savings 3,500 new skilled full

How Unilever, Interface, Nestle, Patagonia and others have improved both their profitability and sustainability in 3 steps. This video describes how leading companies have built on a foundation of non-labour resource efficiency (as discussed in the Next Manufacturing Revolution) to increase their revenues, reduce costs and risks while creating jobs and reducing environmental impact. You can click through to read

Resource efficiency is traditionally associated with cost reduction. But leading companies have also used non-labour resource efficiency to drive sales. Watch this webinar recording to hear how Kyocera successfully do this and how your company can too. The Next Manufacturing Revolution conservatively estimated additional profits worth £325M p.a. from revenue growth from resource efficiency through: • Improved product performance •

A new report, co-authored by Lavery Pennell and the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing, identifies £920M p.a. in cost savings and 6.6 million tCO2e p.a. reduction that the UK Food and Beverage sector is now missing. Following two years of research, peer review, and a summit workshop bringing together key companies, government departments and industry bodies, this report presents

A new, more profitable and sustainable model for industry has emerged estimated to be worth, for Europe, €100bn in additional profits, 168,000 new jobs and a 14.6% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. It involves three stages which respond to today’s business challenges. REDUCE – improving non-labour resource efficiency* REPLACE – reinvesting some of the efficiency savings in sustainable inputs (materials

The traditional response to earnings downturns is to hunker down and defend the status quo. But if the downturn is caused by a structural disruption this is the wrong response. This discussion presents a better response that finds opportunities within challenges – and describes what it takes to capture them. How does your company respond to a downturn in earnings?

There are a number of themes emerging that the Lavery Pennell team expect to shape sustainability in 2014. These are presented below, along with their implications for companies and the strategy and sustainability teams within them. 1.       Continuing Progress along the Five Stages of Grief In 1969, Dr Elizabeth Kubler-Ross identified the emotional stages that people go through

Shell released their latest report ‘New Lenses on Future Cities’ in January 2014, which looks at how cities can evolve to cope with an additional 2.7 billion people by 2050. This document builds on Greg Lavery and Nick Pennell’s work with Shell, while at Booz & Company, developing the city growth virtuous cycle, city archetypes and city pathways presented in

At the recent Industrial Sustainability conference held at the University of Cambridge, Lavery Pennell joined a range of leading companies, including Marks & Spencer and Toyota, highlighting the benefits for to be gained from taking a proactive approach to sustainability. Lavery Pennell presented on the drivers and benefits of non-labour resource productivity. The video of the presentation is below. Highlights

Remanufacturing allows manufacturers to increase profits while reducing supply risks of raw materials. However remanufacturing accounts for just 1% of UK manufacturing sector turnover. Watch this video to: Learn about the pros and cons of remanufacturing and how to succeed. Hear insights from Caterpillar Reman on their experience of remanufacturing. Background Remanufacturing is defined as returning a product to the

Lavery Pennell has been working with the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing and 2degrees to accelerate non-labour resource efficiency in the manufacturing sector – i.e. the Next Manufacturing Revolution. Together we recently launched a landmark report and programme of action to capture the £10 billion p.a. in profits, 300,000 jobs and 27MtCO2e p.a. greenhouse gas reduction that are available

This month’s CFO World includes an article by Lavery Pennell on sustainable cost reduction, which presents the seven areas of opportunity for non-labour cost reduction and shows how good practice companies have made significant savings in these areas. You can click through to the article here.

Lavery Pennell was recently interviewed by vlearn on how sustainability can be profitable. Drawing on our experience helping organisations including Shell, Interface and Masdar City to grow while reducing their footprint, we discussed the sources of value that sustainability can create and how companies can harness these to drive bottom line growth. You can watch the video below and/or download the briefing note

Greg Lavery from Lavery Pennell is quoted on p. 8 of the Guardian supplement “Manufacturing the Future” published on 5 Sept. The article discusses the Next Manufacturing Revolution and the opportunity that it represents for improving non-labour resource efficiency. You can read it at http://np.netpublicator.com/netpublication/n42803991.

The Next Manufacturing Revolution (NMR) is a collaboration between Lavery Pennell, the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing and 2degrees to accelerate manufacturing improvements in non-labour resource productivity to realise the available benefits in profits, jobs and environmental sustainability. Lavery Pennell was lead author for the NMR report which quantifies the significant untapped opportunities for UK manufacturing from non-labour resource efficiency and outlines

Yesterday, the Next Manufacturing Revolution* (NMR) launched its landmark report and programme to help UK manufacturers improve their non-labour resource productivity. The report, for which Lavery Pennell was lead author, identifies the significant untapped opportunities for UK manufacturing in non-labour resource efficiency and outlines a programme of action to address the barriers to uptake. Co-authored by the University of Cambridge’s