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I'm Martin Howitt, I'm the managing director of 
Grantham Manufacturing Ltd.

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This is a business which was started
in the late Sixties by my father,

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so I moved into it in the late Seventies
as the second generation.

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Moved it from being a gasket
making business to the business

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that it sort of evolved into today,
which is specialist paper converting.

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About 2014...

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we had a factory fire,

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and that destroyed all of our factory
and all of our manufacturing capability.

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So when the fire took place, you know,
you're faced with a heck of a challenge,

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you either fall over and run away from it
or you get stuck into it,

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and you take on a vast challenge
of rebuilding your business swiftly.

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We came up with a dream of how we wanted
the factory to look going forward

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in order that we can future-proof ourselves,

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but that was going to take
a big investment at that time

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and a business looks rather critical
when everything's burnt down.

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You need to have somebody that's going to
have a lot of faith in your business plan,

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and I'm pleased to say that the 
relationship manager we've got with Barclays

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bought into my dream as to how 
we were going to rebuild this business.

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In designing and building a new factory

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we wanted to make sure we built features
into that to reduce its

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carbon impact, so we applied for  

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and we got permission to put 272 solar panels

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on the brand new roof that we were building.

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We're now in a situation
where we are generating

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over a period of 12 months,
58% of our own electricity.

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We also harvest our rainwater.

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We've got a 10,000 litre
tank in the ground.

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So all the rainwater
is gathered, filtered, and we can use that

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in our processes.

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In addition, we've got a ground source heating system.

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We've got boreholes in the ground,

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so the system is pre-heated
by the temperature of the earth,

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which is generally ten degrees,
and that is what's responsible

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for maintaining the temperature
in the factory.

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More recently, we've invested
in a specially designed for us,

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water cooled air compressor.

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I'm excited to be a part

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of seeing the third generation
come into this business.

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My two sons have joined
and brought their own skills base to it

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in order they can take 
the business plan forward

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and into the future.

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So the business now carries on
trying to work at the sustainability model

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that we've got, be it
from sources of raw materials

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or all the features
we built into this factory

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and I'm very passionate

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that that's one of the legacies
that I want to leave

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behind in this business
for the next generation to build on.