Tag: XPO Logistics

Saint-Gobain and XPO Logistics aim to help 1,000 children learn to be safe on the roads by the end of 2025

Stuart Mitchell

XPO Logistics, a leading provider of innovative and sustainable end-to-end logistics solutions across Europe, is working in partnership with Saint-Gobain UK to keep children safer on the roads. The Road Safety Team, comprising key personnel from both Saint-Gobain and XPO Logistics, along with Buzz, the project’s Bee mascot, aims to visit 1,000 children in schools during 2025. The team will give talks and demonstrations on how to cross the road safely and show them where the danger areas are around an HGV. The team has already visited more than 250…

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XPO Logistics and Samsung Climate Solutions bring biodiversity initiative to Leicester warehouse

Stuart Mitchell

XPO Logistics, a leading provider of innovative and sustainable end-to-end logistics solutions across Europe, is expanding its Nature Network project to its shared-user warehouse in Leicester. The site offers consolidated storage and logistics services for Samsung Climate Solutions and other customers. It has now become the latest location to benefit from XPO Logistics’ biodiversity and employee wellbeing programme. The Nature Network project, launched earlier this year at the company´s UK headquarters in Crick, Northamptonshire, is designed to improve biodiversity around XPO Logistics sites across the UK and Ireland. It aligns…

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Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions partners with XPO Logistics and Chopsticks charity to put timber off-cuts to good use

Stuart Mitchell

Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions and XPO Logistics have partnered with North Yorkshire charity Chopsticks to provide timber off-cuts to its woodworking group. Chopsticks support vulnerable adults in the community, providing them a safe working environment while teaching them new workshop skills.  Working with otherwise scrap timber, the Chopsticks team create wood kindling or recycle it into new products in the ‘Chopshed,’ creating items such as flower planters and picnic benches. As off-site manufacturers, Coventry-based Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions prioritises waste reduction. Through its Roofspace Solutions, Pasquill and Scotframe brands, the Saint-Gobain Off-Site…

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XPO Logistics launches Nature Network biodiversity project at UK headquarters

Stuart Mitchell

XPO Logistics, a leading provider of innovative and sustainable end-to-end logistics solutions across Europe, is launching a project to enhance biodiversity around its sites in the UK and Ireland. The ‘Nature Network’ project is a key part of XPO’s ethos to improve sustainability by reducing CO2 emissions across the business and within the microclimates around each depot. The company’s headquarters at Crick in Northamptonshire will be the first site to implement changes through the project, with plans to roll it out across multiple sites in 2025. Around 20 varieties of…

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XPO Logistics Sustainability Leader Dr Nicholas Head Named Vice Chair of Sustainable Logistics Forum

Stuart Mitchell

XPO, a leading provider of innovative and sustainable end-to-end logistics solutions across Europe, announced today that Dr Nicholas Head, XPO Head of Sustainability, has been named Vice Chair of the Sustainable Logistics Forum. Representing 18 larger fleet operators, the Sustainable Logistics Forum is part of Rutland Forums, a partner of XPO Logistics, which facilitate collaboration groups of sustainability and energy practitioners, helping members to decarbonise their organisations quicker and more cost-effectively. All forums meet regularly to collaborate on projects, share best practices, and work closely with the HM Government to…

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