Antifriction has grown substantially over the past few years, with 14 branches now across the UK. While this success is exciting from a business perspective, we also understand that every company impacts the environment. The bigger the company, the bigger that impact will be. This understanding led us to take action a few years ago and begin calculating and taking responsibility for Antifriction’s carbon footprint.

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Antifriction’s Carbon Offset Journey

 

In 2021, we engaged Carbon Neutral Britain to conduct a thorough carbon audit of our operations. Since then, we’ve continued to work with them to calculate Antifriction’s carbon footprint every 12 months, to ensure we’re taking responsibility for our carbon footprint.

Carbon Neutral Britain is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that helps UK businesses calculate and offset their carbon emissions. The NGO is an advocate for the UN Sustainable Development Goals and allows businesses to support ‘United Nations Certified Emission Reduction Schemes’. With Carbon Neutral Britain’s help, Antifriction officially became a carbon-neutral certified business in 2022.

What carbon offset projects does Antifriction support?

 

In 2025, Antifriction is supporting four carbon offset projects around the world. These include a wind farm in Mongolia, wind power in Karnataka, India, household solar lighting in Zambia and the Elazig Solar Farm in Turkey.

Each of these projects has been designed to meet at least four of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. For example, the household solar lighting project in Zambia aims to provide solar lighting to families, who do not have access to electricity at home. The project has distributed over 600,000 solar lights across the country since 2021, avoiding over 10,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions!

You can read more about each of these projects on Carbon Neutral Britain’s website.

Antifriction’s Carbon Reduction Plan

As well as offsetting Antifriction’s carbon emissions, we also have plans to reduce the company’s overall carbon footprint. Investing in carbon offsetting projects helps us to take responsibility for Antifriction’s carbon footprint while working to actively reduce the company’s emissions.

Some actions we have taken to reduce Antifriction’s carbon footprint over the past few years include:

  • Fitting LED lights in Antifriction’s UK distribution centres in April 2022.
  • Using light sensors in Antifriction’s UK offices and distribution centres, to reduce overall electricity usage in June 2022.
  • Introducing vehicles with lower emissions to the Antifriction company fleet, including EVs and hybrid vehicles.
  • Switching to more eco-friendly packaging. We’ve switched Antifriction’s packaging from plastic to high-strength paper packing tape and other recycled materials.
  • In June 2024 we installed solar panels at the Antifriction HQ!
  • In 2024 we also acquired an adaptor at our HQ that allows users to charge e-bikes and e-scooters at our EV charging points.

These are goals that have already been achieved. Antifriction has plans to make more changes in the next few years. Changes the company is considering, include:

  • Switching to a greener energy provider, with renewable energy plans.
  • Improving insulation in Antifriction’s offices.
  • Installing more bicycle storage to encourage employees to cycle to work.

What difference has Antifriction made?


In the past few years we have made multiple changes to reduce Antifriction’s carbon footprint. Recent wins include the installation of solar panels at our HQ in Bristol in 2024. To date these have saved a huge 14.5 tonnes of CO2! That’s the equivalent of planting nearly 20 trees! We plan to continue making positive changes and reducing the company’s carbon emissions. We’ll be sure to keep making updates on our progress.


Not only do we prioritise reducing the carbon footprint within our business operations, but we also focus on helping our customers do the same by helping them optimise their machinery, which is summed up in our strapline, Optimise Uptime and Energy Efficiency! Our future plans aim to build on this, giving our customers actionable plans to save energy, reduce their carbon footprint, and do their part in helping the environment.

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Working with brands that make a difference

 

As a specialist in sourcing high-quality, industrial components, Antifriction is partnered with multiple manufacturers. We are proud to say that we work with world-renowned brands that are seeking to reduce their environmental impact and pioneer sustainable developments in their field.

For example, respected adhesive brand, Loctite, has in recent years put a great deal of investment and research into improving the health and safety of its products. Our adhesives & lubrication partner Loctite now offers a range free from Hydroquinone, a chemical that is harmful to both human health and marine life.

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