New sustainability accreditation for The Surpluss

GLOBAL CLIMATE-TECH PLATFORM, The Surpluss, has launched a new certificate to encourage engagement across industries and support SMEs in achieving their sustainability goals. Current certifications and accreditations are often narrow in scope, expensive, and claims are hard to verify. The Surpluss Standard is being introduced to fill this gap, allowing smaller businesses that are new to sustainability to be assessed only on their collaborative efforts outside their own vertical supply chain.

The Surpluss Standard, acknowledged by the UK government IP Office, measures engagement based on how companies work together towards sustainability. It shares the same principles as The Surpluss platform, a digital ecosystem where businesses can share resources to enhance sustainability, encourage innovation, generate new income, and become more competitive.

The Surpluss member companies can apply for consideration by submitting evidence of their top synergies. Eligibility requirements include completing collaborations aligned with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), diverting waste from landfill, co­sharing resources such as warehouse space, and exchanging knowledge hours with other industries.

The standard recognises that companies will have varying synergies as no two businesses are the same. As such, it measures the quality of collaborative efforts, not quantity, to even the playing field for SMEs while simultaneously providing access to new opportunities outside of their conventional operations.

The Surpluss founder, Rana Hajirasouli,

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explained, “Although standardisation is important for sustainability, it is unfair to assume companies have access to the same resources. We wanted to provide a standard which can assist organisations, irrespective of their size, to find the right sustainable business models that work for them, while also driving revenue.”

“Collaboration has historically been a neglected component of accreditations, as has the need for building financial resilience whilst companies commit to undergoing the lengthy process of certification. We wanted to disrupt that cycle to embed a framework that is easily digestible for all businesses, so they can focus on creating a lasting positive social and environmental impact in their communities, instead of struggling against paperwork that yields no business benefit.”

Developed in the UAE, The Surpluss’ mission is to empower businesses to become passionate about climate action by creating a collaborative ecosystem to share resources and waste nothing.

IN A DRIVE to increase the efficiency of international shipping, BTG and Anybus from HMS Networks have partnered to deliver positioning measurement systems for automated container ports.

BTG's IRM400 range is a modular measurement system designed to accurately control the position of a crane's spreaders and cargo. It measures sway, skew, and inclination using an infrared transmitter and highresolution receiver mounted on the crane. Real­time data is collected from multiple sources to enable precise control of multi­ton loads traveling in three dimensions at high speeds.

BTG's IRM Spreader Measurement Sensor consists of a transmitter and a receiver. The Anybus CompactCom B40 was embedded into the receiver. The Anybus CompactCom provides highperformance data exchange that can handle even the most demanding synchronised motion applications ­ up to 1448 bytes of process data in each direction.