Acquisition International Announces Lucion Group As Winner Of Their Global Excellence Award: Best Comprehensive Environmental Services Group 2023

As a market-leading provider of inspection, assessment and advisory environmental services to corporate and commercial clients, we are proud to have won Acquisition International's ‘Global Excellence Award: Best Comprehensive Environmental Services Group 2023 - North East England’. In our latest blog, we outline the Group’s structure following 5 acquisitions in the past 2 years.

Global Excellence Awards: Best Comprehensive Environmental Services Group

Now in its sixth year, the Global Excellence Awards are the flagship program of Acquisition International magazine, a digital business publication with an international circulation of 108,500+ corporate professionals and C-level decision makers.

Winners are selected through a merit-based system, via research carried out by an impartial team rather than external nominations. Acquisition International’s criteria require that there is evidence of significant achievements and a clear commitment to innovation in a given field, for a company to pass the shortlisting stage and be named as a winner. The 2023 Global Excellence Awards recognise and reward business excellence across all sectors.

Winning ‘Best Comprehensive Environmental Services Group 2023’ is another demonstration to our clients that we are a trusted, reliable supplier of environmental services throughout the development and asset lifecycle. 

A Winning Strategy

Through our Group of companies, we facilitate the sustainable development of clients across 12 key sectors worldwide through risk mitigation services. To assist our clients at every stage of their asset lifecycle journey, our Group works as three industry verticals: inspection, providing hazardous material testing data analysis and surveys; assessment, a conductor of physical onsite investigations including geoenvironmental and geotechnical studies; and advisory, offering environmental, sustainability and consultancy services.

As a private equity-backed business, we are sustainable, and interesting and continue to grow and push forward to secure our future as a business not only for our investors but for our community of people. The Group signed up for the UN Global Compact in November 2022. With its internationally recognised set of 10 universal principles for good business practice, the international aspect is an important one. The commitment to the UN Global Compact includes providing a corporate disclosure of ESG annually, which we will be completing for the first time in 2023. As we acquire more businesses the integration is a challenge as they adapt to the culture and values of the Group and we have more data to collect, for example across our fleet and property portfolio. We have addressed this by creating roles in these key areas, and understand that having good data and being well informed allows us to make the best choices in the future. It has also enabled us to become a “Beyond Net Zero” business with action plans for carbon emissions reductions.

We are determined to see a positive change in the landscape of our business. We are happy to report that in December 2022, we reached ‘beyond carbon neutral’ status and have not only offset our current carbon production, but have also continued to limit our carbon production where possible and aim to offset not only what's leftover, but an additional 50% of the output in 2023. We will continue to make an impact whilst expanding our international capabilities with our founding membership (through our Delta-Simons business) with the Inogen® Alliance, a global corporation providing multinational organisations with consistent, high quality and cost-effective environmental, health, safety, energy and sustainability solutions.

Together by choice for over 20 years, the Alliance has unparalleled global coverage with over 240 offices and 6,000 consultants partnering to solve Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability challenges, resolve liabilities from the past, address today's requirements and deliver innovative solutions for the future. Inogen Alliance offers "global thinking with local expertise" and a committed and attentive team of diverse experts around the world. Having completed projects in more than 150 countries, the Alliance provides a single point of contact for diverse markets such as Automotive, Chemical, Consumer Products & Retail, Financial, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Non-Profit Organisations, Oil & Gas, Real Estate, Services Firms, Technology and Transportation, among others.

The Alliance’s global service delivery model is built on delivering seamless, high-quality, consistent and cost-effective Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability services. With the diversity of our associate members, we have local expertise in a global environment. Our associates understand the cultural nuances, regulations, and language in their own countries where they operate as independent businesses coming together through the Inogen Alliance to create a global network for clients with unparalleled coverage.

Everything that we do is born from our purpose; to protect people from hazardous environments and protect the environment from the impacts of people. Our name, Luc (to illuminate) / ion (to take action), illustrates our mission, to shed light on hazards and challenges and take action.

With a commitment to quality reflected in our ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 accreditations, we are the first choice for a safer and more sustainable future.

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