Rugby donations recycled and reused

Rugby donations recycled and reused

January 05, 2023
The keys to the old Rugby Head Office were officially handed over to the new owners on Friday 16th December. The HR and facilities teams worked hard to ensure that as much as possible, of the furniture from the building was donated or recycled and that the rest was disposed of correctly.

To the following charities we donated:

• 5 items of office furniture to Age UK

• Over 70 items of office furniture to the Benn Partnership

• Over 170 items of office furniture to Myton Hospice

• Almost 40 electric and furniture items to Wolston Leisure & Community Centre

To other CEMEX sites we donated over 124 pieces of furniture, electrical items, along with kitchen cupboards and a pallet truck. A local company took 74 furniture items and CEMEX staff took home 38 items for their home offices.

One of the biggest challenges involved the Rugby office’s back-up diesel powered electric generator. It was connected directly to the mains electric supply for the offices and would automatically kick in should a power cut occur, this made its recovery challenging in terms of timing and safe disconnection. A big thanks to Peter Finney from our Rugby Cement plant for its safe disconnection following the relocation of our IT servers to Coventry, which gave us a tight window of opportunity before the building was handed over. The generator has been relocated within the Aggregates division just down the road from Rugby at Berkswell Quarry, replacing a currently hired unit. This provided an annual saving of over £12,000 and is a great example of working together as One CEMEX.

A big thanks to Natasha Page for coordinating the operations along with everyone else involved in organising these donations. In total, over 550 items were donated to new owners who will continue to get many more years of use from the items.