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Totalpost in further
£60K ‘green’
cartridge investment
Environmental savings pay off
for Totalpost
Mailroom specialist Totalpost Services Plc has created
new jobs and doubled the size of its cartridge reflling
factory as part of a £60,000 investment to help meet
the growing demand for recycled and reflled franking
cartridges.
Totalpost is one of the UK’s biggest suppliers of reflled
franker cartridges and sells well in excess of 250,000 to
customers around the world.
The best-in-class new flling machine has been
installed at the company’s dedicated factory in Alston,
Cumbria, creating three new jobs.
“This new investment is a direct response to a growing
demand from customers for a greener solution to their
printing and franking needs,” said Totalpost Services Plc
Managing Director David Hymers MBE.
“Modern technology has delivered unprecedented
standards of reliability to the reflled cartridge market,”
David continued. “By getting their franking cartridges
reflled, clients reduce their costs as well as their carbon
footprint and we’re anticipating a signifcant growth in
demand from across the UK, Europe and the USA.”
To help deliver the most cost-effective product
solutions, Totalpost offers full in-house design and
development on new products. All coding of any country-
specifc cartridges is completed using Totalpost’s own
software, with all updates created immediately.
David concludes: “Now that our flling capacity has
increased dramatically, combined with availability of
the broadest range of products in this niche market, our
dealers worldwide will be delighted with the speed of
order turnaround combined with a high quality experience
and a 100% guarantee in the event of any issue.”
This latest investment will double flling capacity
and is expected to increase Totalpost’s10% share of the
European franker ink cartridge market.
Established in 2002, Totalpost operates from centres
inWarrington, Swindon and Cumbria and also offers a
variety of other products and services including mailing
machine sales & maintenance, mail sorting and opening,
fulflment, returned mail management, disaster recovery,
document scanning and storage.
A mail solutions company is paving the
way when it comes to taking care of the
environment.
Totalpost Services Plc has recycled 18.6
tons of offce paper during 2011 which
amounts to saving 316 trees, 7,254 gallons
of oil and 148,781 gallons of water.
Altogether the savings amount to a
carbon emission saving of 53 tons as every
ton of paper recycled equates to 2.87 tons
of reduced carbon emissions.
With the environment a priority for
many frms, Totalpost knows it’s vital for its
services, including peak load processing and
the returned and gone away mail division,
to be environmentally friendly.
One of the ways the mailroom
company stays green is running peak
load processing when a business wants
to outsource its mail handling – it can be
during particularly busy periods including
the run up to the end of the tax year,
when a company’s machinery has failed or
simply to save money.
It means that businesses can reduce
their carbon footprint by having their mail
handled from one of Totalpost’s dedicated
sites inWarrington and Swindon.
Totalpost Managing Director David
Hymers said: “We often get businesses
coming to us and saying they need to buy
more machinery due to greater demand at
particularly busy times.
“It means a lower carbon footprint
because not only do we reduce the need
for buying more machinery but we also
recycle paper.”
And the sites also specialise in
managing returned and gone away mail for
its clients, and can handle over 25,000 to
30,000 items daily.
With 80 per cent of the carbon
footprint of a piece of direct mail in the
end of life solution, it makes it all the
more important for companies to ensure
they have an effective process in place for
dealing with their ‘gone away’ mail.
Kirsty and Tim Craig are general
managers of the returned and gone away
mail division. Kirsty said: “The environment
is on everybody’s agenda and we know
how important it is to help frms be
eco-friendly with carbon reducing and
confdential disposal of waste.”
All paper waste is recycled by
Wakefeld-based ShredBale4Recycling and
is recycled into tissue material.
Totalpost also comply with TheWaste
Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE) Directive regulations which aims
to reduce the amount of electrical and
electronic equipment being produced and
to encourage everyone to reuse, recycle
and recover.
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Kirsty and Tim Craig, General Managers of Totalpost’s returned and
gone away mail division with Managing Director David Hymers MBE