FESPA Coffee Break - Looking ahead and building a more sustainable business
How a sustainability audit of your business will reveal opportunities to save energy, balance your Carbon, and attract new customers!
In this Coffee Break, Graeme Richardson-Locke FESPA’s Technical Support Manager is joined by Clare Taylor of Clare Taylor Consulting and Chris Green, Director Visual Communications Antalis. With the focus on environmental sustainability, the key essentials that through strong leadership, lead to reduced cost by managing business processes more efficiently will be examined. Topics that are covered include the importance of sustainability, the internal process of auditing print businesses, areas that are most relevant to businesses who print with screen and digital printing and the initiatives available to help print businesses with carbon balancing. It isn’t too hard to reduce scrap by planning production effectively and with Antalis’ Carbon balancing schemes there are practical measures that reduce emissions and allow you to demonstrate to your customers that you are committed to carbon reduction which is increasingly influencing buyers in large brands.
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