Polar Enviro Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

Deliver innovative solutions that leave a lasting impact and improve safety

Inspiring and equipping you to achieve your sustainability goals with locally manufactured, longer-lasting products and circular solutions. We will enhance safety ensuring people get home safely every day, drive innovation, and provide solutions that decrease energy usage and promote sustainable waste management.

We aim to protect lives and preserve the planet. We do this by:
- reducing carbon in the economy
- decreasing energy usage
- enhancing product life cycles
- ensuring people’s safety
- improving financial sustainability
- eliminating un-necessary electric batteries 
- reducing (and even eliminating) un-necessary e-waste
- boosting sovereign manufacturing and the circular economy.

Polar Enviro has three main brands, united with a common passion to innovate for the environment and for safety.

Smarterlite - focuses on battery-free photoluminescent exit signs, workplace safety signs and linemarking, enhancing visibility and safety in low-light conditions.

OmniGrip Direct - providing innovative surfacing solutions like high-friction and coloured surfaces, using Australian crushed recycled-glass to improve safety on roads, paths and in facilities.

Vivacity - specialising in energy-efficient LED lighting for public safety and workplace safety.

About Polar Enviro

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Employees
5 - 25

Industry
Environmental Services

Country
Australia

Founded
2023

Polar Enviro Sustainability Actions

Reducing death and injury on roads

Polar Enviro brand, OmniGrip Direct, provides road surface treatments that reduce skidding and sliding. For example, OmniGrip HF uses materials that reduces wet-weather crashes on freeway ramps by 92%. State road agencies, councils and private sector clients apply OmniGrip HF to surfaces such as bends on roads, intersections and ramps in car parks and industrial facilities to reduce the likelihood of crashes that result in injury and death. It is made to exceed government specifications for High Friction Surface Treatment and has been assessed by NTRO for compliance with specifications after five years use on public roads.

Reducing death and injury on roads

Polar Enviro brand, OmniGrip Direct, provides surfaces that reduce skidding and sliding on roads, and assist with the visibility of road space reserved for use by vulnerable road users. OmniGrip CST is used in bike lanes, bus lanes and pedestrian crossings to reduce the incidence of vehicles and riders skidding and sliding across their coloured surfaces. Made from crushed Australian recycled-glass, it maintains its colour and skid resistant properties longer than the paint products that quickly wear away. OmniGrip CST is made to exceed government specifications for Coloured Surface Treatment and has been assessed by NTRO for compliance with specifications after five years use on public roads.

Improving energy efficiency of buildings

Polar Enviro's Smarterlite brand provides unpowered and very low powered Exit Signs for use in new and existing buildings. Organisations with multiple sites and buildings may have thousands, or even tens of thousands, of Exit Signs across their building portfolio. By implementing Smarterlite's Environmental Exit Signs, building owners and operators can reduce their power consumption across their buildings, achieving energy savings and reducing their emissions from their buildings. Smarterlite's (Safety Path) Hyperion Exit Sign is included in the approved products register for the Victorian Energy Upgrade Scheme and NSW Energy Saving Scheme, and can be found in the online Approved Product registers for the two schemes.

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Polar Enviro Sustainability Commitments

2019

Australia's largest user of Australian recycled-glass for coloured safety surfacing acquired

We acquired Australia's largest user of Australian crushed recycled-glass for coloured safety surfacing, adding it to our portfolio of brands offering road and building environmental and safety solutions. Using OmniGrip Direct's recycled-glass safety surfaces reduces the use of short-lived paint industry products, delivering compliant long-life hard-wearing surfaces that are safer for all road users.

2019

Developed world's best battery-free Exit Sign range

We vowed to create the world's best battery-free Exit Sign, breaking the back of an industry that has distributed tens of millions of failure prone batteries across Australia. In fact, the industry is based on those batteries failing so more Exit Signs can be sold. The Smarterlite range of Environmental Exit Signs eliminates all those batteries and their associated eWaste and plastic waste. That's why Smarterlite's Exit Signs are known as Smarterlite Environmental Exit Signs.

2022

Achieve independent Compliance Certification for OmniGrip CST and OmniGrip HF

We wanted to be the first organisation to have our surfaces assessed for compliance with specifications used nationally; proving their long-life to our customers. The Transport Infrastructure Product Evaluation Scheme (TIPES), administered by the National Transport Research Organisation (NTRO), showed that OmniGrip CST, made from Australian crushed recycled-glass, and OmniGrip HF, were still compliant after 5-years of use on public roads. At the time of the assessment, no other surface treatment had been assessed and achieved this result. On-site testing was completed by the National Transport Research Organisation and CSIRO. By proving compliance with Queensland's specifications, which were functionally the same as those in NSW and Victoria, OmniGrip Direct set a high bar for the industry to follow. In fact, the assessment process found locations where OmniGrip HF was still compliant after nearly 18 years use on arterial roads in Melbourne!

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