Every time we buy a product from another country, our currency ‘leaks’ into the other countries economy – making it stronger and ours weaker. For some products like bananas – it’s unavoidable. For others – like washing machines and dehumidifiers we should be manufacturing in the UK. Ebac’s support of UK manufacturing is not political – it’s just very practical and economically based.

The carbon footprint created by shipping prodcuts from other countries to the UK is quite suprising. If we take a washing machine for example. A washing machines weighs around 90kg. Shipping that from Turkey, China or Poland has up to 10x the carbon omissions
compared to a Washing machine made in County Durham.