Civil and Marine has met its Climate Change Agreement (CCA) targets for the third consecutive time, highlighting the company's green credentials.

CCAs offer energy intensive business users the chance to reduce their Climate Change Levy - a tax on the use of energy aimed at improving efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions - by 80 per cent.

Civil and Marine is the UK's largest producer of ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) - a cement replacement product that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the manufacture of concrete by 40 per cent or more.


Its initial CCA was set up in 2001 and reviewed by Defra three years later, resulting in a further tightening of five per cent.

Rob Sindel, Civil and Marine's Managing Director, said: "The improvement in our energy efficiency, a 14.7 per cent reduction on our original CCA target, is a result of investment in new plant as well as continuing efforts to make existing ones operate more efficiently.

"We have also taken advantage of energy surveys and advice from the Carbon Trust, involving detailed assessments of our use of electricity, gas and compressed air.

"Our achievement emphasises the energy savings that can be made by using GGBS as a replacement for cement."

(CD)