Operational Excellence

As a result of the investments we have made over the last decade, our manufacturing facilities operate at, or close to, world-class levels of environmental performance. We have a programme of continuous improvement in place to strengthen that performance and we encourage our supply chain to do likewise.

Between 1998 and 2006, despite an increase in turnover of nearly 60 per cent, Rolls-Royce cut the annual energy consumption in its facilities by 11 per cent, reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent, reduced the use of solvents by 45 per cent, reduced water consumption by 27 per cent and increased the amount of solid waste sent for recycling to 48 per cent. The company has now set itself new challenging targets to make further improvements in these areas by 2009.