Introduction BOTT Ltd are Private Limited company that specialise in vehicle conversions which is based in Bude. They have other workshops in Scotland and Ashby. There is also, BOTT Hungary and BOTT Germany. These are all subsidiaries to BOTT group, which is an international corporation. BOTT Group is also German owned. BOTT UK sell worldwide, however they mainly sell to the UK and Europe. BOTT UK describe their products as ‘’providing affordable and effective solutions’’ – As described on their website. BOTT make products such as van conversion products. For example, cupboards and drawes for vans to keep tools in. BOTT describe the cupboards and draws and other items as ‘’Van Racking’’. BOTT say they go for quality and for the product to …show more content…
This means that the sector generally the output and manufactures finished goods from the primary sector. Usually after the manufacturing of the products they are then sold to domestic consumers or exported for use by other businesses. Also, the sector is regularly split into Light Industry and Heavy Industry. Many of the industries use large amounts of energy and cause environmental pollution because they require factories and machinery to convert their materials into saleable goods. BOTT causes environmental pollution because it uses machinery and has factories to produce its good to sell. Although, BOTT has many ways to reduce their environmental pollution to the environment, for example they recycle a lot of unused materials, even though they are required to by law. As well as this, they re-use rain water. When it rains, BOTT keep the water rolling into a water tank which holds it until its needed for various jobs that water is needed for. This keeps BOTT’s environmental damage down to a minimum. Although it can never produce no environmental damage because it is a factory. So BOTT are trying many initiatives to try and keep the damage down to a minimum. As well, BOTT recycle a lot of steel. Their incentive to do this is that they receive steel back from their supplier if they manage to recycle/return their waste. BOTT has a variety of customers that come to them. A list of example customers are, Independent Sole Traders, Fire Service, Police
Roterra Piling Ltd. is family owned business based in Acheson, Alberta that engineers, manufactures and installs pilings foundation products for construction projects. The company began 10 years ago as a small welding shop that fabricated custom metal project for the oil and gas industry. There was such a large demand for one product that eventually screw piles was all that was being manufactured and installed. Since its beginning the company has grown steadily, doubling revenue each year, and has gone through substantial changes. In 2012, the company had outgrown its current facility and the owners decided to build a brand new office and manufacturing plant. This facility has a large yard for products and materials to be stored, a large manufacturing facility with a machine shop, mechanics bays, and an office with room for over 30 employees. The company has had to adopted strict safety, quality and human resources policies and procedures. The company has grown from a one man welding operation to a very successful piling company with over 100 employees in just over 10 years.
The heavy usage of machinery and fossil fuels required in industrialization leads to high amounts of carbon emissions. The mass amount of raw materials used in each industry accumulates and
Although no specific dollar figure can be attributed to a specific level of customer service, the customers have been divided into
The first would be that instead of capitalizing the $210,000 to set up displays to promote the line, these displays could have been recorded as an Advertising Expense. One of the IFRS criteria for something to be considered an asset is that the benefit must be reasonably measurable. When it comes to anything done for the purpose of advertisement or promotion, it is hard to measure the benefit and that is why this cost could have been expensed rather than capitalized. However, by recording this event as an expense this would mean that Athina’s net income would have been overstated by $210,000 and that is an undesirable outcome for the national chain.
This kind of factory is doing tasks, which affect the environment. Thus, the maquiladoras must change the form that they clean their machines and work areas such as caterpillar, a world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment: diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. they used politics of environment that its said, “We continually encourage all of Team Caterpillar to challenge waste, eliminate inefficiencies, and work to deepen their understanding of our true impact on the world in which we live.” So, qua Caterpillar the maquiladoras need to have in mind if they want to care for the earth such as using friendly chemicals, recycling their junk, and changing their
Developing countries tend to have “the most fragile environments” (Baker 197) which is due to the flow of resources dictated by the core. The core, taking advantage of the developmental level developing countries are on, exploit their lack of laws restraining harm to the environment, setting up factories causing even more environmental damage. Thus when comparing the environmental status of a developed country to a developing country there are major differences. These differences are the interaction of the people with the environment, in terms of needs, and the number of factories profiteering from the use and exploitation of natural resources. When this difference is identified then it is easier to assess not only the source but also to create laws prohibiting this exploitation and constructing programs to reverse environmental damages to specific circumstances, helping developing countries to move forward on the developmental scale instead of backwards. If this is taken into account then why is the source causing environmental damage, the core, not stopped? This is due to the dominant ideology stating that with infinite economic growth, eventually the sustainability of the environment will be achieved. The developing countries reinforces this by inviting and encouraging organizations to base their factories in their country which has immediate results, creating a smoke screen
The infrastructure is not at present in place to permit efficient recycling of materials from old product to new. These materials include metal, polymers, refrigerant gas and glass. This situation is due largely to a culture of indifference from Governmental and regulatory agencies at present. The use of natural capital is unsustainable with the culture of supply of what the customer wants and not what they need, this is at present a cultural problem. This has a detrimental impact on the ecosystem.
One environmental pollution are caused by factories because the product they produce causes the filth out of them. This could be the car production or agricultural production. America produces a lot of cars for all the people to drive. More cars makes more carbon dioxide (filth) which causes deaths, health problems and global warming. Perhaps we can switch to a different energy source to power these vehicles.
They also offer one of the biggest product ranges available for DIY projects, builders, renovations etc, in the one store facility, including:
New Belgium supports sustainable development, so they choose to form partnerships who support sustainability, create a high involvement corporate culture which values everyone’s contributions, look at the CO2 emissions, waste, toxic substances, and transportation to measure the environmental impact of their products. To get the basic idea of what builds sustainability in their company, they usually question the vendors. For instance, the policy regard of their waste management, the environmental organization they contributed, their method used to manage the transportation impact to their products.
If under any case the harmful situation arises the workforce of the company is always willing to tackle it and do not walk by under any circumstances. The other objective of the company is to protect the environment, the basic vision of the companies for this is to operate in such a way that the environment get least affected due to the operations of the company. The company tries to prevent pollution during the construction activities and improvement in the field by any means. In case the company needs to be defined in one word Lafarge Tarmac will be known as the sustainable and sustainability is what they operate for as per the objectives of the company (lafargetarmac.com, 2014).
One positive implication capitalism has to the natural environment is industrial ecology, a system of chain production and consumption, serving to the lowest environmental impacts in a most environmentally sustainable economy as the main goal of operation (Richards & Pearson, 1998). The Companies in a like to operate in such way because of four major reasons. The most important factor is known as the corporate well-being, for it is determined by higher profits and growth provided by innovations in an industry. Profits are increased from recognizing the production ineffiency costs that comes from wasted inputs and energy losses; this allowing cost savings to increase and ineffiency to decrease. compliance with cleaner technology alternatives such as ones that produce less waste and less energy will provide long term savings which are both beneficial to the environment and the business at hand. A real world example freight company changes their salvaged driving equipment to hybrid vehicles. Money is temporarily lost, but the gasoline and maintenances cost savings will compensate in a long run period of time.
the product that this industry produces, the effect of emissions on the environment and government
In the second week of June, 1988, executives at BW/IP International, Inc. were assembling materials for a presentation they would make to their bankers on June 15. They recently had agreed to acquire United Centrifugal Pumps (UCP) for $18.5 million. UCP 's product line complemented BW/IP 's extremely well and the managers of BW/IP 's pump division were eager to combine the two. Nevertheless, BW/IP 's bank lenders were expected to be somewhat less sanguine. Only a year ago, in May 1987, they had lent $131 million to finance a $235 million leveraged buyout (LBO) of the company. BW/IP had performed according to expectations since then, but it still carried total
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