Sustainable Logistics in 2021 and beyond webinar

Join us for best practices to reduce your environmental and business costs

Are you Logistics Smart?

The goal of the webinar is twofold: to provide an overview of the current challenges for improving logistics and transport operations; and to identify and share best practices in order to reduce operating costs.

Why attend?

• Improve your logistics and environmental performance.

• Practical insights and examples of how you can improve your environmental performance and reduce business costs.

• E-meet and learn from industry leaders.

• Explore long term collaboration opportunities with Aston University.

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 Agenda:

11:00AM-Welcome note & overview of Low Carbon SMEs programme.

11:10AM- Logistics & Sustainability Edward Sweeney (Director - Aston Logistics and Systems Institute -ALSI).

11:20AM-Challenges for UK SMEs- Steve Allen Ex. Chairman -Charted Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT).

11:30AM- Insights: How to Improve Environmental Performance- Steve Tainton (Head of Sustainability/CSR - Wincanton).

11:50AM- Roundtable discussion, Q&A Aristides Matopoulos Reader - Aston Logistics and Systems Institute (ALSI).

12:25PM-Feedback, next steps & closing note.

 

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Aston University’s Low Carbon SMEs Programme supports energy-intensive industries to reduce their carbon footprint, energy costs and improve profitability. The project is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and is open to small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Greater Birmingham & Solihull and Black Country regions.

 We provide: 

• Access to energy efficiency capital grants (match-funded).
• Free on-site energy efficiency survey.
• Cutting-edge collaboration opportunities with Aston University.

 SME Eligibility:  

• The company must employ less than 250 employees.
• Have an annual turnover of not exceeding €50 million and/or an annual balance sheet not exceeding €43million.
• Have received no more than €200,000 of de minimis State Aid in the past 3 years.

 

Contact us

If you have any questions, please email- smelowcarbon@aston.ac.uk. 

To know more about the programme, please visit-http://www.smelowcarbon.co.uk.

 This project is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.