Jaguar Land Rover receives another Queen's Award, this time for reducing its environmental Impact.

• Queen’s Award made to Jaguar Land Rover for reducing the environmental impact of its products and operations.
• Key factors include the company’s world-leading aluminium vehicle engineering expertise, new low-emission ‘Ingenium’ engines, and reductions in operational energy, waste and water usage at its plants.
• Follows the company’s 2014 Queen’s Award for International Trade and takes the total number of these awards won by Jaguar and Land Rover to 14.

Jaguar Land Rover has received a 2015 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development, for reducing the environmental impact of its products and its operations. This is the 14^th Queen’s Award that Jaguar and Land Rover have received since 1967 - the second year of the scheme. It follows a 2014 award for International Trade, in recognition of Jaguar Land Rover’s outstanding overseas sales growth.

"Jaguar Land Rover is honoured to receive this 2015 Queen's Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development,” said Dr Ralf Speth, the company’s CEO. “We are focused on growing a long-term, sustainable business, as leaders in environmental innovation and making a positive impact on society.”

The award has been announced during Responsible Business Week, which is appropriate timing as Jaguar Land Rover was named Responsible Business of the Year 2013/14 by Business in the Community (BiTC).

‘Whole lifecycle’ approach

The company’s 8,000 designers and engineers take a ‘whole lifecycle’ approach to vehicle development, aiming to reduce impact on the environment right through from raw materials to eventual vehicle disposal.  These measures have already helped significantly reduce CO₂ emissions, with the company’s EU fleet average on track to be 25% lower in 2015 than in 2007.

Jaguar Land Rover is a world leader in the design and manufacture of aluminium-intensive vehicles, pioneering the use of closed-loop processes to drive recycled content and reduce environmental impacts across the lifecycle.  Benefits include weight saving, higher fuel efficiency, lower emissions, improved crash safety and even better vehicle dynamics.  The latest generation Range Rover and Range Rover Sport, for example, are each up to 420kg lighter than equivalent predecessors.

Now, a new family of highly efficient, ultra-low emission, aluminium four-cylinder diesel and petrol engines, named Ingenium, has been developed to power new and future Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles. The engines have recently entered production at the company’s brand new £500m Engine Manufacturing Centre near Wolverhampton, which was opened in October 2014 by HM The Queen.

Aluminium-intensive and advanced technologies

The all-new Jaguar XE mid-sized sports saloon demonstrates Jaguar Land Rover’s uses of advanced technologies to create a vehicle that leads its sector.  The XE can achieve fuel economy figures of 75mpg and CO₂ emissions down to 99g/km.

Hybrid technology is another area that has seen significant Jaguar Land Rover investment in recent years. The Range Rover Hybrid and the Range Rover Sport Hybrid are now both available, using an advanced hybrid system and without compromise to their renowned all-terrain capabilities.

Jaguar Land Rover has also significantly reduced its operational energy, waste and water usage at its UK manufacturing plants.  The new Engine Manufacturing Centre has been designed and built with strong emphasis on sustainability, including the UK’s largest rooftop solar panel installation, which will generate up to 30% of the site’s energy.

Doubling the workforce and increasing skills

Jaguar Land Rover’s approach also contributes to social, economic and leadership dimensions of sustainable development.  The company is helping address the UK skills gap, with a training and skills programme aimed at young people at school (STEM initiatives), recruitment of over 2,000 apprentices and graduate engineers in the last five years, and investment in on-going training to develop engineering skills among its workforce.  

“We have doubled our workforce in five years, developed a culture of continually increasing their skills and we are helping to inspire the next generation of engineers,” said Dr Speth.

The company also has a sector-leading global Corporate Social Responsibility programme to deliver opportunities for 12 million people worldwide by 2020.  In the first year of the activation (2013/14), 1.5 million people benefitted from education and clean water opportunities through NGOs such as the Red Cross and Climate Care.

As well as the 14 Queen’s Awards, Jaguar Land Rover is proud to be the only automotive company to hold all three Royal Warrants, as an official supplier of goods and services to the households of HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH The Prince of Wales.

Queen’s Awards won by Jaguar and Land Rover (14 total)

1967 – Jaguar, Export

1984 – Jaguar, Export

1985 – Jaguar, Export

1986 – Jaguar, Export

1987 – Jaguar, Technological (Design and development of Jaguar XJ40)

1990 – Land Rover, Export

1993 – Land Rover, Technological (200 TD1 diesel engine)

2000 – Jaguar, Export

2001 – Land Rover, International Trade

2001 – Land Rover, Innovation (Hill Descent Control for 4WD vehicles)

2008 – Land Rover, International Trade

2008 – Land Rover, Innovation (Terrain Response vehicle traction system)

2014 – Jaguar Land Rover, International Trade

2015 – Jaguar Land Rover, Sustainable Development