Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

December 2025

We've partnered with suppliers and customers to develop carbon transparency, enabling us to provide accurate embedded emissions data for our products. We can now quote tentative carbon costs for two products. For example, a major automotive OEM receives quotes showing 0.83 kgCO2e per pressed assembly, 98% from Scope 3 emissions (raw materials and transport) and only 2% from internal operations, thanks to our zero-carbon electricity.

So far, we have been able to quote tentative carbon cost (embedded emissions) data for two products, thanks to the data provided by our suppliers.

Social Sustainability

December 2025

• Over the past 6 months, we've focused on building awareness of sustainability's importance and benefits across Metal Assemblies and our value chain. Developing a sustainability culture starts with sharing knowledge.

• Metal Assemblies participated in the Aston Green Advantage programme, a three-month course building competencies in the green transition, circular economy, carbon calculation, and digital green technologies. We recognise the importance of partnering with other West Midlands SMEs to tackle sustainability challenges.

• We've delivered presentations to top management and team leaders on sustainability and CBAM, explaining their current and future impact on Metal Assemblies. These presentations were also shared with suppliers to extend our impact beyond MAL to external stakeholders.

• We have periodically circulated project updates to all Metal Assemblies staff to ensure that we create a culture of transparency and awareness of the project’s progress.

• The project team has also been working on developing a Sustainable Manufacturing Strategy, with the first deliverable being a Sustainability policy: 

Economical Sustainability

December 2025

• Through an early mini project, we identified quick fixes to reduce annual energy consumption by at least 5%, including optimised weekend heating, shutting down machines outside work hours, and piloting energy metering.

• We've secured £40,000 in BEAS grant funding for factory-wide energy meters at machine level. This data will support CBAM compliance through component-level carbon costing and provide insights to reduce energy consumption.

Environmental Sustainability

December 2025

• We've calculated our Scope 1, 2, and select Scope 3 emissions oin ur carbon footprint. These figures are essential to track our progress toward manufacturing low-carbon products and reducing environmental impact.

• Due to rising TNUoS charges and electricity costs, we're installing solar panels in the coming months. This will reduce grid reliance and lower annual electricity costs.

NOTE: We already use 100% zero-carbon energy (nuclear and renewables); the solar panels will increase the renewable energy contribution.