RLBS Enviromental Movement Into 2025

RLBS Ltd (formally Richard Llwellyn Brewery Service) has been trading since 1982 and in this time has refurbished drinks dispense equipment in the millions.

We are also a manufacturer of dispense equipment and design all products with refurbishment in mind to ensuring all component parts are fully re-usable.

With the worsening environmental crisis developing at pace and the huge demands on raw material pushing prices ever higher plus extended lead-times, RLBS have set out aims for 2025 to help not only singular customers, but the drinks dispense industry as a whole.   We believe this is the best approach to both helping the environment and ensuring a sustainable supply for our customers. 
There is a very wide range of product available to serve drinks within our industry, some branded others unbranded. It is the unbranded products we will focus on as these are used across all customers. As a refurbisher to all the key companies and many smaller companies we are in a good position to reduce scrappage by way of facilitating swopping or purchasing of excess rough stock. 
For Example, if one company was holding excess of S-type keg coupler we may purchase the rough stock to refurbish for another wanting company or facilitate a swop whereby both customers will receive the good stock required whilst reducing their rough stocks. 

The true aim is to reduce the need for raw material manufacture and have a greater dependence on the equipment which is circulating within the industry. This will reduce raw material requirement, raw material manufacture, shipping of finished goods which will impact positively environmentally and increase the sustainability of the drinks dispense industry as a whole.

This and other aims for 2025 are bullet pointed below.  

• Facilitate a swopping of rough stock from customer to customer
• Purchase excess rough stock from customers to make available for needing customer
• To offer plastic free packaging
• To maximise rough stock in supply of refurbished equipment before requirement of new
• To look at all standard equipment currently in use offering refurbishment method if possible
• Offer a modification process for dispense taps to bring them up to current specification
• To look at all piece parts currently used in manufacture and refurbishment with the aim to find a more environmentally friendly alternative (particularly any plastics i.e., cable ties)

If you feel your business can benifit from the above and you'd like to know more then please get in touch.