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Environmental Policy
Piggotts recognises its environmental responsibilities and is committed to contributing to the reduction of local, national and global environmental damage. With the following Environmental Policy Statement, Piggotts sets out the actions it undertakes to reduce the environmental impacts of its activities and further promote environmental good practice, both within its own premises as well as through suppliers and partners.
Piggotts is committed to:
• Minimising the consumption of natural resources and energy, whilst consuming material goods in moderation.
• Reducing the creation of waste by the adoption of improved operating practices and by the recycling of materials whenever practical.
• Ensuring all waste and effluent is disposed of in a safe and responsible manner.
• Investing in the development of new products and processes that have an improved performance regarding their impact on the environment.
• Complying with environmental legislation.
• Encouraging all members of staff to improve their awareness of the environment and become more environmentally responsible.
• Maintaining environmental policies, procedures and systems inline with the goal of attaining certification to Environmental Management Standard ISO 14001.
• Continual improvement of environmental performance.
To achieve this, the company aims to:
• Reduce the use of energy through improvements to energy efficiency and the substitution where practicable to renewable energy sources.
• Review this policy on an annual basis to take into account changes including legislation and best practice.
• Minimise waste by reduced consumption and develop effective waste management and recycling procedures.
• Develop and implement an integrated "Green" transport policy encouraging the greater use of shared vehicles, travel by foot, bicycle and public transport.
• Ensure that all paper used for the printing by the company is obtained from a sustained forest.
• Ensure that all staff are given the opportunity to take an active role in the implementation and development of environmental policy through focus groups.
• Ensure that progress is reported through the group newsletter and reported on a 6 monthly basis to all staff
• Develop and implement a closed loop policy on waste.
Closed Loop
Policy Piggotts are proud to offer environmentally friendly branding and are helping to reduce waste within the events and branding industry. The process is as follows:
• Design - Our internal studio will design to your specification.
• Produce - Our manufacturing process for eco-friendly products uses water based inks and prints onto recyclable Polyester.
• Finish - Our internal finishing house will sew and finish products to your specification.
• Use - The product is delivered and used until it reaches it's end of life.
• Return - Please don't throw out! Send the product back to us for recycling (or we can arrange to uplift, a small fee may apply).
• Shred - All Polyester and PVC products are compressed and shredded at end of life.
• Recycle - All shredded items are taken back into the manufacturing process.
• Re-use - This is then used in lower grade products (eg transit and airline blankets).
Carbon Trading
The Crown Group and its members recognise the importance of sustaining our environment and operating in a manner that is ecologically sound.
During 2007 we will participate in a Carbon Trading programme planting a substantial number of trees, contributing towards global efforts to reduce global warming.
As one of the leading companies in the catering and events industry, we operate a vigorous sustainability programme which includes closed loop recycling and using energy efficient products in our operation.
Please visit www.crowngroup.co.uk to find out more.
Environmental Links
For more information on this please visit www.wrap.org.uk or www.ecostrust.org.uk
Processes
Innovation is at the front of our policy and the continual development of new techniques and processes enable us to stay at the top of the field. Our new manufacturing techniques are helped by our state-of-the-art ColorBooster technology.
Color Booster Print Machine "The ColorBooster is a wide 8-color digital production printer, a versatile printer for indoor and outdoor articles such as flags, banners and high-quality promotion prints, home decor articles, swim wear, active wear and articles of fashion."
Thanks to a unique combination of different techniques, penetration both for flags or banners and for silk articles can be optimally set, making the ColorBooster ideally suited for printing textile materials that require a high degree of penetration.
The ColorBooster's completely new developed zero-play substrate transport system is optimized for digitally printing on a diversity of textile materials. Thanks to the adjustable cloth tension, automatic transverse substrate correction and the compensation rollers, both dimensionally stable and dimensionally unstable materials can be printed easily and without problems. Cloth tension can be set per substrate type and is maintained during printing.
An environmentally friendly printing system, using waterbased inks and printing onto recyclable knitted polyester. Even the machine (made from millfinish stainless steel) is recyclable at end of life."
We are pleased to endorse such technology since it is the reason we can produce such high quality products for our clients. If you would like more information on our manufacturing processes, please feel free to contact us.
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