IPIA sponsorship highlights print’s green growth
Print waste management company J&G Environmental will sponsor this year’s Independent Print Industries Association (IPIA) conference being staged in Leeds next month. It will be the first time the conference will have been sponsored by a company providing specialist environmental services to the industry.
IPIA chief executive Andrew Pearce said the collaboration highlighted the way that environmental management had now become a mainstream business activity in the industry rather than a feel-good marketing tool.
“J&G have pioneered sustainable waste management and the wholesale recycling of print by-products and changed the way the industry thinks about its waste. The IPIA is keen to push forward the environmental agenda, and we’re very pleased to have them working with us because they represent best practice in print waste recovery.”
John Haines, J&G general manager, said the company had moved from its role as a supplier carrying out a “necessary, but unexciting, business function” to one in which it partnered the industry at all levels to help it cope with the heavy legislative demands of modern waste management.
The two-day event, which also includes the association’s annual meeting, awards dinner and a golf tournament, will bring together print managers, print distributors, trade manufacturers, material suppliers and service providers. It will be held at the Oulton Hall Hotel at Oulton, Leeds, on 22 – 23 June.