UK Transport Awards 2022

15 | UK Transport Awards 2022 EMSOL recently secured £738,160 from 433 investors in 33 countries worldwide via a Seedrs Crowdfunding campaign. It has also received funding from the UK government’s Future Fund. This shows incredible confidence in the company and diverse financial backing. The money is already helping EMSOL to expand, scale and develop its product and services. To support growth further, it will be adding to its team, and in 2022, it hopes to develop on proven use cases within key sectors and roll out the solution commercially throughout the UK whilst continuing the excellent work with its existing big brand partners. EMSOL needs innovative and forward-thinking transport companies to join it in its mission to reduce transport-related emissions from communities and the environment. The compnay hopes to achieve multi-site monitoring for a big brand customer by the end of the year – Could it be you? Company: Emission Solutions Ltd Contact: Freddie Talberg Email: freddie@emsol.io Website: www.emsol.io Founded in 2017, EMSOL is an innovative UK cleantech company which simplifies transport and site-based emissions management. Companies need practical solutions to meet ever-tightening standards in air quality, pollution management and ESG reporting. EMSOL intelligently combines air quality monitoring networks in conjunction with real-time vehicle identification technology to identify exactly the who, what, when, where, and why of air and noise pollution before it reaches limits. EMSOL empowers transport organisations to manage their site-based emissions simply but effectively. The provision of realtime pollution notifications, source identification, scientific insight, mitigation recording, and customisable reports facilitates a scientific-based approach to air and noise pollution reduction. Stakeholders are demanding action on air quality and EMSOL enables organisations to measure, attribute, reduce, and report their environmental impact. The EMSOL solution has been developed since 2017 and the company has worked, and continued to work, with local authorities, construction giants, major retailers, and logistics providers to ensure an excellent product market fit that best serves transport operators and their clients. EMSOL’s product roadmap has a series of further integrations and improvements planned to ensure its leading solution remains exactly that. EMSOL has seen an increased demand from customers who want to change to a healthier lifestyle with cleaner air and less environmental impact from commercial vehicle activities – as this is what they experienced during the pandemic when everybody was working from home. The challenge is for operators to make the investment necessary to meet these demands. EMSOL measures the environmental impact of delivery activities by new and existing fleets on a 24-hour basis. The platform supports supply chain operators to win business based on the sustainability of their fleet operations and to ensure environmental impact is measured, controlled and contained to meet local and timebased requirements. In doing so, operators enjoy better community relations as they can prove their sustainable operations and noise compliance. This can fit with more effective optimisation for fleet movements to reduce the impact caused be congestion and drive operational Most Innovative Transport Air Pollution Solution 2022: EMSOL profitability. Armed with EMSOL’s scientific data and impact reports, customers evolve from passive ‘observers’ into proactive advocates who can scientifically manage and evidence reductions in emissions – winning bids, avoiding cost legislation breaches, evidencing progress to sustainability goals, and enhancing brand credibility. As such, EMSOL is a partner for every transport operator and site owner in order to get the environmental impact under control and support the best supply chain partners to be able to operate profitably. EMSOL’s customers have included John Lewis & Partners, the NHS, Veolia, Hanson, and Mace Group. Speaking about his company’s experience with EMSOL’s solution, Andrew Dixon, Regional Transport Manager at Hanson said, “Proving the conversion of our fleet to Euro 6 has had a beneficial impact on the site has been great. If we can see breaches happening when other contractors’ fleets are onsite, it proves our case.” Ali Ashpitel, Sustainability Manager at Mace Group said, “Using EMSOL meant getting data we can take action on, to bring us closer to our net zero goal – like changing delivery patterns, informing traffic planning and evaluating equipment and supplier sources.” Everyone at at EMSOL wants to make a real-world difference to air pollution in urban environments, and this was shown through EMSOL’s company survey in 2021: the key reason people value working at EMSOL is that they know what the company is doing will reduce the impact of air pollution in the environment and create cleaner, healthier communities to live and work in. Scientifically evidencing environmental improvement is the core of what EMSOL does every single day. All employees have visibility of the reductions in pollution that the company is making with its partners, and the scale of the opportunity to truly impact air pollution in the environment in itself inspiring. Feb22624

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