The investment in 25 per cent post -consumer recycled aluminium will save c.16kg of CO2 per 1kg of aluminium used, equivalent to 28.8kg of CO2 per bike. Testing shows that it is stronger than brand new aluminium.
Made famous by a photograph of Prince Louis on his balance bike in April 2021, Frog Bikes was set-up in 2013 Jerry and Shelley Lawson after they struggled to find good quality, light weight bikes for their own children.
Together with Brunel University and bicycle engineer Dimitris Katsanis, they have reformed the thinking behind children’s bike design.
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Frog Bikes has a 120,000 sq ft manufacturing unit at Mamhilad Park Estate near Pontypool where the company employs 35. It has capacity to build up to 400,000 bikes a year and was awarded the King’s Award for Enterprise in April 2023.
As a member of the SME Climate Hub, a global initiative empowering SMEs to take climate action and build more resilient businesses, Frog Bikes has committed to halving emissions by 2030 as part of the United Nations Race to Zero campaign.
Jerry Lawson, of Frog Bikes, said: “We are committed to producing our bikes in an environmentally conscious way so we are continually working to integrate sustainability into each aspect of the business. It’s an ongoing process but we’ve made good progress by removing single use plastic from our packaging, improving the design of our bikes to reduce the materials required and installing solar panels.
Our aim is to further reduce the CO2 emissions from each bike that we produce by replacing the aluminium with 100 per cent recycled aluminium.
“The loan from the Development Bank is enabling us to move at a pace that we couldn’t achieve on our own. It will make a real difference to our environment and our ability to foster a generation of healthy, active and happy children with positive, lifelong habits.”
