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Premier Farnell announces another green packaging process for customer shipments
24.01.2008
Recyclable and sustainable materials combine with lower energy machinery to deliver environmentally friendly packaging solution
Premier Farnell plc (“Farnell”), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally, has implemented its second environmentally friendly packaging process for customer shipments in as many months. The new approach, which follows last month’s introduction of biodegradeable plastic cell packaging for integrated circuits (ICs), brings together the latest biodegradable and recyclable materials with high efficiency packaging machinery that dramatically reduces energy use.
Now in place at its Leeds warehousing facility, the new process sees air-filled plastic ‘void fill’ materials replaced with an environmentally friendly alternative based on recyclable paper from sustainable sources. At the same time the company is migrating to packing boxes manufactured from recyclable materials.
To support the use of the new materials the company has invested in the latest high-speed packaging machines. The new machines convert the recyclable paper into a star configuration and offer further environmental benefits as they use less energy than the systems required to blow air into the plastic void fill used previously.
The investment in new packaging materials and systems is further evidence of Premier Farnell’s stated objective to continually reduce the environmental impact of its operations. This commitment includes ensuring that sites meet the ISO 14001 2004 environmental management standard and targets to reduce carbon emissions
Caroline Walker, Group Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Affairs at Premier Farnell, states: “We have always used environmentally friendly materials wherever possible. By using recyclable boxing and packing materials from sustainable sources for all customer shipments, and by investing in packaging systems that reduce energy use, we will further minimise the impact of our operations on the environment in line with our corporate social responsibility goals.”
About Premier Farnell
Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl) is a leading high service, multi-channel distributor of electronic, maintenance, repair and operation products and specialist services throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. It goes to market with a differentiated value proposition, world-class marketing, a stocked range of 400,000+ products, and access to 4,000,000 more items from 3,000 top manufacturers. The company has group sales of £823.1m and 4470 employees globally.
While global in scope, Premier Farnell recognizes the individual needs of each market and has continued to internationalize its model accordingly, trading locally under different brand names. Its primary electronics businesses trade as Farnell in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Newark in the US, Canada and Mexico, and Premier Electronics in China. In Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Brazil the operation is known as Farnell Newark. For more information visit the website at www.premierfarnell.com
Contact details for publication and editorial enquiries:
Jenny Peters
Head of Corporate Communications
Premier Farnell plc
Tel: +44 (0)207 851 4102
Mobile: +44 (0) 7921740548
Email: JPeters@Premierfarnell.com
Issued by:
Lewis Tonkinson, Director,
Pinnacle Marketing Communications Ltd,
Prosperity House, Dawlish Drive, Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 5LN, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1564 770900
Email: lewis@pinnaclemarcom.com
Web: www.pinnacle-marketing.com
Premier Farnell plc (“Farnell”), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally, has implemented its second environmentally friendly packaging process for customer shipments in as many months. The new approach, which follows last month’s introduction of biodegradeable plastic cell packaging for integrated circuits (ICs), brings together the latest biodegradable and recyclable materials with high efficiency packaging machinery that dramatically reduces energy use.
Now in place at its Leeds warehousing facility, the new process sees air-filled plastic ‘void fill’ materials replaced with an environmentally friendly alternative based on recyclable paper from sustainable sources. At the same time the company is migrating to packing boxes manufactured from recyclable materials.
To support the use of the new materials the company has invested in the latest high-speed packaging machines. The new machines convert the recyclable paper into a star configuration and offer further environmental benefits as they use less energy than the systems required to blow air into the plastic void fill used previously.
The investment in new packaging materials and systems is further evidence of Premier Farnell’s stated objective to continually reduce the environmental impact of its operations. This commitment includes ensuring that sites meet the ISO 14001 2004 environmental management standard and targets to reduce carbon emissions
Caroline Walker, Group Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Affairs at Premier Farnell, states: “We have always used environmentally friendly materials wherever possible. By using recyclable boxing and packing materials from sustainable sources for all customer shipments, and by investing in packaging systems that reduce energy use, we will further minimise the impact of our operations on the environment in line with our corporate social responsibility goals.”
About Premier Farnell
Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl) is a leading high service, multi-channel distributor of electronic, maintenance, repair and operation products and specialist services throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. It goes to market with a differentiated value proposition, world-class marketing, a stocked range of 400,000+ products, and access to 4,000,000 more items from 3,000 top manufacturers. The company has group sales of £823.1m and 4470 employees globally.
While global in scope, Premier Farnell recognizes the individual needs of each market and has continued to internationalize its model accordingly, trading locally under different brand names. Its primary electronics businesses trade as Farnell in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Newark in the US, Canada and Mexico, and Premier Electronics in China. In Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Brazil the operation is known as Farnell Newark. For more information visit the website at www.premierfarnell.com
Contact details for publication and editorial enquiries:
Jenny Peters
Head of Corporate Communications
Premier Farnell plc
Tel: +44 (0)207 851 4102
Mobile: +44 (0) 7921740548
Email: JPeters@Premierfarnell.com
Issued by:
Lewis Tonkinson, Director,
Pinnacle Marketing Communications Ltd,
Prosperity House, Dawlish Drive, Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 5LN, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1564 770900
Email: lewis@pinnaclemarcom.com
Web: www.pinnacle-marketing.com
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