Environmental & Sustainability Statement

Crescent Press is committed to improving and protecting our employees, local and global environments and working with equally minded companies to promote sustainable solutions and practices. The company is focused on continuous improvement and will strive to look to reduction in our carbon footprint in all areas of the business, looking for eco-friendly practices, renewable materials, and responsible production processed. Creating a sustainable future, while delivering exceptional quality and service to our clients.

We maintain programs designed to protect the health and safety of our colleagues. Our sustainability policy focuses on three key areas: delivering sustainable and circular products, reducing our CO2 emissions and using only responsibly sourced materials.

Sustainability means advancing solutions that address local and global challenges whilst performing to the highest standards to meet the needs of our customers, staff and suppliers. Through collaboration we can make a positive contribution towards a sustainable world. Our commitment to society and the environment is embedded in our company vision. We have a relentless focus on reducing the impact of our products and operations in the environment. We undertake to invest in technologies that move us towards becoming a zero net carbon business and we collaborate with our industry partners to achieve this goal. We invest only in technology and processes that improve energy efficiency and reduce resource use.

Responsibility

The environmental policy applies to all our operations, the Senior leadership team are responsible for ensuring that the aims and objectives of the policy are implemented.

Environmental Commitment

Crescent Press recognise that the its operations, it will generate emissions to the air and water, and generate waste products. In order to minimise any environmental impact, form these activities, products and service the company will comply with any applicable legislation, Environmental objectives will be instrumental in the culture promoted by the Crescent Press senior leadership team and will communicated and embedded in employee educations.

Environmental Objectives

1. Crescent Press is committed to promoting continuous improvement and the setting of environmental objectives, these objectives will address the impact, risk and opportunities within the organisation and outside of its immediate boundaries
2. Prevent pollution, reduce waste and minimise the consumption or resources
3. Promote environmental awareness among our employees and encourage, educate and empower them to work in and environmentally responsible way
4. Reduce waste by recycling and segregation of waste products
5. Promote efficient use of materials and resources throughout the organisation including raw materials, water, electricity, gas, fuel, transport and avoid unnecessary use of hazardous products
6. Communicate our environmental commitment to supplier, clients, customers and promote environmental initiatives, alternative and sustainable policies
7. Develop and maintain appropriate programmes and polices to meet health, safety and environmental legislation
8. Strive to improve our environmental performance and minimise our social impact by periodically reviewing our environmental policy and it targets and activates

9. Designing waste out of our products and processes in conjunction with suppliers and customers

10. Eliminating pollution by adopting low carbon technologies where these are available

11. Recycling materials at every stage, in-line with our zero to landfill policy

12. Developing products that improve the quality and sustainability of the environment and seek to eliminate all non-conforming products. Reduction of CO2 emissions

13. We endeavor to reduce our carbon footprint by:

    • Investing only in innovative and sustainable equipment to continually improve the efficiency of our manufacturing processes.

    • Adopting low energy technologies.

    • Implementing combined heat and power technology in our buildings.

    • Taking steps to reduce vehicle movements for raw materials and finished goods. Responsible sourcing of materials

14. We will improve the sustainability of our industry by:

    • Maintaining an ethical sourcing policy in-line with the standards laid out by SEDEX (registered no. ZC40559300)

    • Adherence to the management systems of ISO 14001

    • Promoting the use of recyclable materials to our customers

    • Working with suppliers to develop substrates manufactured from post-consumer waste

    • Supporting the Forest Stewardship Council® scheme (License FSC®- C002977)