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.

Busy Busy!

Well we have been busy bees here at B & V over the last few weeks!

We attended the Facilities Show 2010 between the 11th - 13th May. We had a wonderful time meeting customers and new faces!

Last week we also had our Ukrainian partners visiting. Aleksey, Igor, Vadim and Tayisiya from Technochimreagent. They had a wonderful time here and in London!

The Facilities Show 2010

Not long now until the Facilities Show 2010, from the 11th - 13th May at the NEC.

B & V will be at Stand D5 meeting and greeting, with a few interesting props! It's not too late to get a pass, just go to www.thefacilitiesshow.com to sort out your day.

A hige amount of work has gone into preparing for the Facilities Show 2010 and we hope to meet a lot of new people! We're very keen to launch our new EnviroRange - we think it's great!

We hope to see a few familiar faces also so please come along to say hello!

Techical Meetings

Today the second Technical Meeting was held at the B & V offices in the Technical Department. Recently we have been putting a lot of hard work into ensuring our Technical Team is used efficiently. We are lucky enough to have a number of highly qualified staff at B & V consisting of a Microbiologist, Chemists, Trainers and industry specialists and we feel it is important to be using the team to the best of its ability. The meetings focus on sharing knowledge, information and news and ensuring it is filtered down through the individual departments as well as ensuring R&D projects are tailored specifically to areas that will most benefit our customers. Below are some photos of Gwyn giving his presentation on Boiler Cleaning and Lay-Up Procedures.

 

Water Filter Installation Video

Outtake 1!


Outtake 2!



Outtake 3!

Filters

We managed not to leave it quite a month before we made a new update here this time!

On Friday Jill and Siobhan travelled to London to get a video shot of the water filters we're launching soon. We also needed photographs of the installation. It went really well and looks very professional! There will be two videos and as soon as they are edited we will post them on here... Very exciting! This means the website can be launched very soon...

It's clearly been a very busy time for us here at B & V since the New Year, as this is the first blog post in over a month!

Last week we had some VIP's from Portugal over for a couple of days training. They are a very valued export customer of ours and we enjoyed having them here - we hope they enjoyed it too!

We also had our second ISO 14001 audit yesterday, meaning we are closer than ever to being accredited! This was on of our main aims for 2010, as reducing our carbon footprint is one of the main priorities for B & V this year. It is also important for us to offer our customers ways of reducing their carbon footprint also, and we are working very hard on innovative new ideas to make this possible. 2010 should be a very exiting year for new technologies regarding the environment!

Already this year we have had a baby boom - two members of staff have become proud parents already, welcoming Jacob Ive and Lucas Brabbins into the world :)

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