Sustainability
Our Vision
To ensure sustainable development to our business by providing innovative cereal products with honesty and integrity. We aim to manage environmental impacts, make sustainable improvements every year, look after people and be a good corporate citizen.
Principles
Employees
Our employees are our most crucial resource; we are committed to offering equal opportunities to all people in their recruitment, training and career development. The company does not tolerate sexual, mental or physical harassment in the workplace and respects human rights and the interests our employees. Allied Mills are committed to training and developing staff and brief employees on all relevant matters on a regular basis, sites are recognised Investors In People.
Occupational Health and Safety
Allied Mills considers Occupational Health and Safety of equal importance to that of any other function in the business, is committed to the prevention of injury and ill health and takes full account of its legal and ethical responsibilities to provide and maintain safe and healthy working conditions for its employees, visitors and contractors. All sites are certified to OHSAS 18001.
Ethical Business Practices
We are committed to free and fair competition and we will compete strongly but honestly complying with all local competition laws, bribery and other unethical practices are prohibited and we work with suppliers to ensure employment conditions in the supply chain meet recognised standards.
Food and Feed Safety
We recognise that customers and consumers confidence in the quality and safety of our products is essential. To this end a high priority is placed on all aspects of food and feed safety. All sites are certified to ISO 9001 and BRC Global Standard for Food Safety.
Environment
Allied Mills identifies and manages its impacts on the environment, is committed to legal compliance, continual improvement, protection of the environment and pollution prevention; energy efficiency and CO2 reduction are key objectives for the business. All sites are certified to ISO 14001.
The Wider Community
Allied Mills strives to be a good corporate citizen through the support of appropriate projects across a range of organisations and charities in the local community.
Carbon Footprint:
Carbon foot printing is a measure of the impact our activities on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day to day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc
A carbon footprint is a measure of all greenhouse gases we produce and has units of tonnes or kg of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Methane (CH4)
- Nitrous oxide (N2O)
- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
Allied Mills are able to calculate their carbon footprint for wheat flour and durum semolina products to the PAS 2050 specification.
The results, calculated and verified by ethical environmental accounting consultants, Sustain, form part of a broad range of sustainability projects, aimed at providing a responsible response to global challenges faced by industry and consumers over the coming century. Through the PAS 2050 calculation it allows us to reduce our carbon footprint by monitoring our miles and responding where possible for example moving road tankers on to the rail network.
This major project has helped Allied Mills identify areas where they can work to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with the added benefit of improving business efficiencies and providing potential cost savings.
Sustainable values have been part of Allied Mills’ signature practice for several years and have enabled them to introduce class leading innovations. Allied Mills has been supplying customers in Scotland using an intermodal rail solution for 6 years now. This has resulted in a saving of over 340,000 road miles per annum and an equivalent reduction in carbon emission of 464mt. In addition to this we are trialling intermodal from the eastern side of England to Wales.
Ventures embracing stakeholders throughout the supply chain are being implemented by the Allied Mills team to the benefit of employee’s, the wider community, our customers and the environment. By working with our customers on sustainable projects we have been able to provide enterprising solutions, adding real value to both businesses, while lessening our impact on our environment.
Currently Allied Mills is the only UK flour and semolina miller to be able to calculate their carbon footprint.
