This remarkable event closes with a fascinating presentation illustrated with case studies from Vishwa Wijedasa of NISP on Resource Efficiency through Industrial Symbiosis, illustrating the financial benefits of networking with a purpose.

About NISP

Connecting Industry, Creating Opportunity

NISP is an industry-led business opportunity programme.  It uses the industrial symbiosis approach to link industrial processes at source to facilitate sustainable production.  NISP also identifies mutually profitable transactions between businesses so that under used resources such as energy, water and/or materials from one can be recovered, reprocessed and re-used by others elsewhere in the industrial network.

Driven by Business

NISP is unique in that it is demand-led by industry, responding directly to the needs of business, whatever sector that may be.  It is nationally co-ordinated and regionally delivered throughout the UK.  Each of the 12 regional teams works closely with a Programme Advisory Group (PAG) comprised of key industry representatives relative to the area and who give their time and expertise on a voluntary basis.  The group assists the regional teams to ensure the programme’s direction is relevant for each region.  PAG members include representatives from Shell UK, Arla Foods, Ricoh Products, Birse Civils, Veolia Environmental Services and Lafarge Cement.

Free Membership

NISP is publicly funded so membership is free for all businesses, regardless of size, turnover or sector.  NISP has over 13,500 member companies including corporates such as Shell UK and Lafarge Cement, and entrepreneurs, micros and SMEs (which make up over 90% of NISP’s membership).