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Feldegg honoured for sustainable print production

Monday 09. June 2008 - Swiss Environmental Foundation Award for Erwin Oberhänsli

The weekend prior to Drupa, Erwin Oberhänsli, a top manager at Swiss printer Feldegg in Zollikerberg, was presented with an Individual Award by the national Environmental Foundation. Oberhänsli won the award, which is conferred annually, for his longstanding commitment to sustainable print production.

Feldegg was not only the first print operation in Switzerland to implement one of ClimatePartner’s green business models for its internal production workflow but also the first to achieve ISO 14001 accreditation for its environmental management system. A good 20 per cent of Feldegg’s production output is now carbon neutral.
Management at Feldegg made the decision to adopt a more environmentally approach to print production back in 1989, and ISO 14001 accreditation followed in 1997. Feldegg, which has a payroll of around 30, made the transition to digital offset with a waterless 74 Karat in 2000. Four years later the company replaced this press with a coater version of the same model. In 2005 this was joined by a Genius 52, which like the 74 Karat features waterless, keyless Gravuflow inking units. The purpose of this investment was to achieve a long-term reduction in emissions and the consumption of resources during print production. Feldegg also has FSC-COC certification and converted its vehicle fleet to environmentally friendly hybrid drives in 2004. Its customer base includes banks, insurance companies and many others who value sustainable print production.