Christmas Party!

We had our Christmas party recently! Below is the photograph of that - it was a very enjoyable night.

You also will remember from the last post that we had a Wear it Pink day! Below is the promised photograph of everyone on the day!

 

From everyone at B & V we hope you have a very merry Christmas and a hapy new year!

Charity and Christmas!

You may rememebr that last year B & V took part in Wear It Pink day for breast cancer! We are taking part again this year and we hope to be pinker than ever! Pictures will be taken and added to the blog - it's on 29th October.

We are also planning our Christmas Party at Towcester Racecourse. We also put up a photo of that night in the blog nearly a year ago now!

We don't know about you but this year seems to have just flown by! We're currently having lots of fun planning the run up to Christmas and the Marketing Department is starting to feel a bit festive... And it's only October!

EnviroFocus

According to a publication recently released by the Carbon Trust, 67% of UK consumers are more likely to buy a product with a low carbon footprint. We know that this may not seem relevant to all of you at first, but it demonstrates how important our environmental impacts are and how they influence a buyer.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol categorises emissions into three scopes:
Direct emissions, e.g. company vehicles
Indirect emissions, e.g. electricity, heat or steam
Other Indirect emissions, e.g. water consumption

Thanks to the B & V EnviroFocus range our customers can take steps towards reducing aspects of their carbon footprint and, in turn, generate savings:
Aquavision is a remote water temperature monitoring scheme that reduces an organisations carbon footprint by reducing man hours on site – fewer visits from a technician means less car emissions.
Clearstream is a water audit and recycling service that saves water.
Drum Re-Using is a service provided by B & V for empty chemical drums – we collect the drums from our customers to wash and reuse them. If they can’t be reused, they get recycled.

The UK has targets of reducing carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 and every little helps. If every company takes steps like the ones offered by us above, it will make a huge difference.

The EnviroFocus range also offers safer chemicals and a paper reducing service. Being environmentally aware can save you time, money and increase efficiency. Continuing business doesn’t have to cost the earth.

For more information on the B & V EnviroFocus range, contact us now on 0844 372 7344.

Lots of News!

Well we have had a very busy week...

Monday - Wednesday two members of our Technical team were in Germany visiting our new German distributors Inprona Water Treatment! The visit went very well and we hope this is the start of a long and happy partnership.

Sigrid, Dennis, Jill and Chris

Today is also 'Dress Down Friday' in the office - every last Friday a month from now on will be the B & V Dress Down Day. Each employee donates a pound to charity to take part!

We have also just been certified to ISO 14001 after our final audit on 20th and 21st July! This is great news for us and we are very happy with this achievement!

Safety Data Sheets

As you may or may not be aware there are major changes in the legislation governing the production of safety data sheets for chemicals. This is to ensure all safety data sheets look the same throughout Europe. Kathy, one of our chemists, has been working hard over the last 6 months to update all of the B & V safety data sheets in line with this legislation. Considering that we have over 600 products, this is a mammoth task!

We now also have the ability to produce safety data sheets in a large number of foreign languages, which is extremely useful as our export of chemicals is expanding at a rapid rate!

You can be sure with B & V that all the data sheets we provide will be in line with current legislation - ensuring constant compliance with European and UK guidelines.

Aquavision!

We have recently launched our EnviroFocus range here at B & V and one of the products in this range is Aquavision.
Thanks to a partnership with Radio-Tech and with their technology and experience, it has made it possible for B & V to launch Aquavision to the industry.
Aquavision is revolutionary remote water temperature monitoring technology. Results are taken automatically and can be viewed by site via the internet. Aquavision saves time, money and, above all, is environmentally friendly. In this day and age looking after our environment is the biggest job we have. Thanks to products like Aquavision we can make changes in our companies that reduce our carbon footprint (cars making a significant contribution to overall emissions of CO2 in he UK). For more information on Aquavision, please go to www.bvwater.co.uk/aquavision.
Below is the photograph of the Radio-Tech and B & V teams at the Partnership Toasting Ceremony.

Victoria (Radio-Tech), Shane (B & V), Craig (Radio-Tech) and Simon (B & V).

Sue Morrison Charity

On Friday 14th June 2010 the Sue Morrison Charity held a Masquerade Ball at a Daventry Hotel. B & V donated a water filter, designed to fit to the copper pipe in your kitchen at home. The filter was auctioned off at £50 and helped towards the total amount raised of £5,000.

Sue Morrison was a close friend of a B & V employee. She sadly died of cancer nearly two years ago. Sue had always wanted to go to a masquerade ball so her daughter and friends arranged this night in her honor. The night was a huge success with almost every joining in - women in ball gowns and men in masks!

100% of the proceeds went to Breast Cancer Care.