UK-based at Southend-on-Sea and employing over 1,000 people, Olympus KeyMed is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Olympus Corporation, Japan. As such it is an important part of the global Olympus network, with specific responsibility for the development and manufacture of medical equipment and industrial products for distribution world-wide. The lighting challenge Olympus KeyMed’s Southend-on-Sea facility comprises warehousing and manufacturing with sheet metal as well as a paint shop. Here it not only produces medical and industrial products, but it is also the sole UK point of importation and distribution of all Olympus products. “Our target is to reduce CO2 emissions in the company by 50% by 2020 in both our buildings and our products,” explains Chris Owen, Olympus KeyMed’s Environmental & I

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