The Danwood Group

(Bronze Partner Best Green Technology Award)

Danwood is Europe’s largest independent supplier of print and document management solutions.  Our holistic approach includes consultancy, hardware, consumables, software, service and maintenance programmes.  As experts in our field we help organisations to measure the financial and environmental cost of their print and document management strategy, recommend and implement change, and manage an organisations printer fleet on an on-going basis.

 

Danwood’s whole system approach to print management aims to reduce the lifecycle environmental impacts and deliver ever improving resource efficiency.  Through this approach we are able to help our customers:

• Reduce energy consumption – for example at Lancashire County Council we reduced the total number of devices from 3500 to 600, resulting in an annual saving of 340,421kWh energy, 185 tonnes of scope 2 CO2 and £38,263 in energy costs

• Reduce paper consumption – for example at the Driving Standards Agency we reduced paper consumption by more than 2.5m sheets per year, equivalent to at least 23 tonnes scope 3 CO2 from paper production, 7,973kg of solid waste and more than 150,000 gallons of waste water

• Reduces emissions from transport – reductions are achieved through remote monitoring and servicing, training of super users, efficient route planning and low emission vehicle fleet.  More than 24,000 service faults were cleared by a variety of remote methods during 2010

• Reduce waste – It is common practice to retain our customer’s most efficient devices as part of a system redesign and our service engineers are trained to repair devices from most manufacturers on the market.  More than 27,000 used machines are tested, repaired or refurbished through our manufacturing facility every year

 

The recent launch of Danwood’s Print Ecology branded range of products sees the culmination in our campaign to bring sustainable print and document management solutions to our customers.

 

We recognise that environmental management is a continuous process of evaluation and improvement and as such the main board of directors are fully involved in the governance of environmental management throughout the Danwood organisation.  We hold the universally recognised ISO 14001:2004 environmental management standard.Our business is based on helping organisations deliver environmental and fiscal saving, focussed around our expertise of print and document management.

“Climate change is not something we can leave to world leaders or to others, we all have a part to play both in our personal lives and our business lives. Technology is powerful tool in helping to deliver change by driving out environmental and fiscal improvements. We should not be afraid to use it. The INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS™ are a deserved celebration of success, recognising genuine effort in sustainable change for the future. But the real reward is the improvement in the health of our planet. Recognising high achievement in delivering projects for sustainable change is essential in encouraging others to look at ways they too can make a difference. TheINTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS™ do a great job in promoting a positive attitude to change.”

 

Colin Daniels, Group Chairman and Managing Director, The Danwood Group

Learn more about Danwood’s corporate responsibility endeavours here.

http://www.danwood.co.uk/