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

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

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

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