As part of Sherratt Landscapes commitment to reducing its carbon footprint, the commercial grounds maintenance company has purchased a range of Pellenc battery-powered equipment from local dealer Morris's Stores.

The company says the new machines, including a range of Airion blowers, long handle and telescopic handle Helion hedge cutters, Excelion 2000 'cow handle' brushcutters and all powered by a range of Lithium-ion batteries are already showing significant savings in fuel expenditure and also considerable environmental advantages.

Choosing the Pellenc equipment for work on the numerous MOD, NHS and school sites which the company has recently won maintenance contracts for was another major reason for purchase, as Managing Director Craig Stockton explains:

"We chose Pellenc products because they fit in well with our ISO accreditations and minimise our carbon footprint, whilst also allowing our operators to work in noise sensitive areas. Normal petrol strimmers are very noisy and we were previously setting off fire alarms on one site in particular, so had to strim by hand, which was very labour intensive."

"Since, we've switched to Pellenc; we've been able to strim quickly, efficiently with virtually no noise and no smoke or fumes."