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TECHNOLOGY FOR GOOD

Technology and engineering can have huge benefits for society, bringing solutions to countless everyday challenges. With our expertise, skills and knowledge in these fields, we are in an enviable position to address these challenges and make a real difference to the world around us.

Our innovation and volunteering programmes leverage the skills of our employees to find solutions to improve the way we work. By continuing to apply these programmes to a wider social purpose, we are harnessing our technological expertise to help those in need..

ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION

To be a truly sustainable business, we consider both the vehicles we produce and every aspect of the process that goes into manufacturing them. We are determined to minimise our impact on the environment, our people and on the world’s precious raw materials.

We are confident of meeting our challenging target to achieve a 45 per cent reduction in European fleet average tailpipe CO2 emissions by 2020. Minimising the carbon footprint of our wider business is also a key objective. We have already reduced our global vehicle manufacturing operating CO2 by 46 per cent per vehicle compared to 2007 by driving efficiencies and building our own renewable energy generating capacity.

ENGAGED AND PASSIONATE PEOPLE

We are investing more than £100 million per year in the Jaguar Land Rover Academy, offering lifelong learning for employees. Around a quarter of employees are actively working towards a formal academic or professional qualification at all levels from apprenticeship to doctorate. We have also upskilled 7,000 engineers with Master’s-level education since 2010.

INSPIRING TOMORROW’S ENGINEERS

More than 350,000 schoolchildren participated in our ‘Inspiring Tomorrow’s Engineers’ programme in 2017. This provided interactive learning, team challenges and educational visits aimed at capturing and encouraging an active and ongoing interest in engineering. By 2020 the programme will have engaged with two million young people, nurturing talent for our business and the wider automotive industry.

In addition, around 5,000 employees donate 100,000 hours annually to support Jaguar Land Rover’s science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education programmes in schools..

CLOSING THE LOOP

With the pressure on our natural resources growing, extracting the maximum possible value from every process and material is paramount. That means challenging ourselves on anything that delivers value to our business and our customers only once. We have to ask what is the second- or even third-life opportunity for that material or product? We recycle or reuse 99 per cent of all non-metal waste from our UK manufacturing process.

Showcasing the passion and potential of a zero waste, circular economy approach, we have revolutionised the disposal of polyurethane. When we have finished with the clay models within which the polyurethane blocks are used we break them down. The cut-off blocks can then be reused either within the business or at Jaguar Land Rover’s education and business partnership centres. However, that still leaves some waste and to deal with that, a new pilot circular economy model has been introduced. Jaguar Land Rover has now teamed up with pioneering surfboard manufacturer Skunkworks, based in Northern Ireland, to produce surfboards made entirely from our remaining recycled polyurethane waste.

ARMED FORCES

As a gold standard Armed Forces Covenant holder Jaguar Land Rover has publicly pledged to become an employer of choice for service leavers. We are pleased to have welcomed over 850 ex-service personnel to Jaguar Land Rover since 2014 and have a range of schemes to support them transitioning into our business.

Jaguar Land Rover is also proud of its role as presenting partner of the Invictus Games in London (2014), Orlando (2016) and Toronto (2017), and is looking forward to supporting the Sydney Games in October 2018.