Platinum has become a Carbon Balanced Printer and at the same time has installed a Moll folder gluer as it continues to expand the volume of packaging work it produces.
“We have been doing more and more packaging that until now we have been taping and gluing by hand or outsourcing,” says commercial director Anthony Wyvill. “We see packaging as offer a more sustainable future than commercial printing.”
The company has a B2 Komori for litho work and B2 HP Indigo 12000 enhanced by the kit to handle thicker papers and boards.The latter handles the shorter runs with the litho press for longer runs. It runs a Heidelberg Cylinder for die cutting.
The Harrogate printer also has a large format division, which adds a challenge to achieving the environmental certification. It is an extension to its use of carbon balanced papers where a levy to the World Land Trust ensures that carbon created in paper production is offset. This is not possible with the synthetic substrates used in large format printing, where carbon in their production is offset instead through the Woodland Trust in the UK as the World Land Trust only supports fibre based materials.
Carbon Balanced Printers will also offset the carbon that they generate under Scope 1 and Scope 2 measures, covering energy, transport and other emissions under its control.
The certification is the latest step in a lengthy commitment to sustainability. It has purchased electric delivery vehicles, and has held ISO 14001 for ten years and has this year added PV panels to its roof. Now the Moll will cut emissions by reducing the need to transport sheets for finishing to a trade house.
It is early days for the installation, the equipment only arriving from the US in the last two weeks. Some customers have been informed, says Wyvill. “Some established customers want to source more packaging from us and we’ve had inquiries about this. Packaging buyers are moving to paper based packaging as a much better alternative to plastic.”
