We don’t claim it. We measure it.
Every printer here is on a meter. We know exactly how much electricity each job used, and how clean the grid was while it ran, so instead of a badge you get the actual numbers, printed on your packing slip and shown on your order page.
Everything we've ever printed, live from the meters.
These aren't figures we plucked out of thin air.
Every print is metered and calculated by the system we built to run our print jobs.
of the electricity used for all of the prints we've done so far came from fossil-free sources.
the entire carbon cost of our printing so far, measured across all of the prints we've done.
the electricity a typical plate has used, worked out from the meters across everything we've printed.
No offsets, no certificates.
Each printer sits on its own energy monitor. When a job finishes, we know its real consumption in kilowatt-hours, not an estimate from print time, not a manufacturer’s figure.
Britain’s energy sources vary from time to time depending on the weather and the time of day. Our platform automatically looks up the actual carbon intensity and energy profile while your print is running, so the figures reflect your actual print rather than a daily or annual average.
We prefer the term fossil-free over renewable, because a large amount of Britain’s energy supply comes from wind, solar, hydro and nuclear power sources. A big chunk of that is from renewable sources. Fossil-free means that no coal, gas or oil was burnt to produce that energy.
We don’t just buy offset certificates or pay extra for a green tariff. This figure is what the grid genuinely delivered while our machines were printing. Most of our prints happen during the day, when solar helps to boost the grid, or overnight, when the wind is doing the work. We’d rather tell you the real numbers than buy a certificate that makes it look better.
Every order page shows the energy and carbon for that specific job, and it’s printed on the slip in the box. If a number looks odd, ask. We can tell you which plate it came from.
If you buy parts, this is your number too.
Most of what a company reports these days isn’t the electricity in its own building. It’s everything bought in: the components, the prototypes, the spares, the packaging. What the reporting frameworks call Scope 3, and what everyone else calls the supply chain. If you’re being asked for those figures, you can only be as good as the people you buy from.
Every order page shows the energy and carbon for that specific job, and the same figures are printed on the slip in the box. Not our annual average spread across your parts. The actual measured cost of the actual things we made for you.
By month, by project, by purchase order, across a year of repeat prints. It’s all measured job by job, so it’s only a question of how you want it totalled. If somebody up the chain is asking you for supplier data, tell us what shape it needs to be in.
The greenest part is the part you don’t replace.
Most of our work is one-offs: a broken part, a bracket, a clip, a handle, which goes on to save a bigger appliance or piece of furniture from being discarded and becoming landfill.
Printing forty grams of plastic to save a whole thing from the tip is by far the most useful environmental maths in this business.
The other part of what we do is prototyping and parts to order. Where multiple iterations of a part are needed for development, we try to make sure we use as little plastic as possible.
If you have environmental and sustainability constraints, we can source algae or hemp-based PLA, biodegradable high-temperature filaments, and recycled-content filaments. If we’re working with you on developing a part which might have several iterations, we might recommend degradable or recycled filaments to help reduce the impact, or shift production to a time when the energy grid is producing its most environmentally friendly supply. The eco options.
Machines run when there’s work for them, jobs are batched onto full plates rather than run half-empty, and most printing happens overnight when the grid is at its cleanest. That’s a large part of why our number is what it is and not the national average.
Each spool is tracked by weight, so the last few grams get used on small parts rather than thrown away with the reel. We buy refills rather than fresh spools every time, to reduce the amount of plastic we’re buying.
All of our purge material, supports and other excess material is always sent for recycling. None of it goes out with the general waste to landfill. In time, as the technology becomes more widely available, we aim to grind this waste down and recycle it into our own cheap filament in-house.
