Sustainability

Our commitment to the environment

At System Edström, we are committed to building a sustainable future. And we don’t just talk the talk. We are taking tangible, effective steps to improve our environmental credentials.

Our primary objective when it comes to environmental work is cutting CO2 emissions, through investing in product development. We try to keep our transport routes shorter where possible, optimise packaging and drive with fully-loaded vehicles.

We are also making efforts to ensure environmental sustainability in our supply chain. This means considering location, internal/external surface treatment and other environmental operations among our suppliers. We try to keep staff travel to the minimum, limit our use of consumables and run that have as low emissions as possible. We also look at the products we purchase, energy use in our premises and shipments to our customers.

The Green Report

Being a market leader in van racking systems in the UK, Sweden and throughout Europe gives us the opportunity to be a pioneer in reducing the environmental impact of our industry. It is a challenge and an opportunity we are happy to take on.

Starting in 2017, and every year since, we have made major changes to our product range. Besides offering the market’s most flexible van interior systems for our customers’ vans, we are committed to offering solutions that reduce the footprint that we and our customers leave on our planet.

You can find out more about our environmental journey in our Green Report.

Steel – our preferred material

It stands to reason that the lighter a van is, the less CO2 it will emit. This might seem like an argument for using aluminium racking. But lighter is not always better. At System Edström, we will continue to use Swedish-manufactured steel for our racking.

Why? The overall environmental impact of Swedish steel is less than aluminium. Its greater strength and durability makes it the better choice as a high-quality product with a lower impact on the global environment.

Aluminium requires more material to get close to the strength of steel and consumes a lot of energy in production, which emits many times the CO2 footprint of steel. Also, the imported materials for aluminium production require transport, causing further emissions, especially when comparing to Swedish steel, which is estimated to go CO2 neutral as early as 2026.

To find out more, read our Steel report.