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l Listawood has opened its third manufacturing plant on the western border of Poland to serve clients within the EU. This follows the opening of the UK factory in 1998 and a facility in India in 2012. l Geiger has announced its new Sustainability Pledge in the UK and Europe. The purpose of this Pledge is to communicate Geiger’s sustainability strategy, objectives, requirements for products and packaging, and expectations for vendor and customer partnerships. l CMYUK marketing manager, Sarah Neate, has been promoted to the position of group marketing director. The new role acknowledges her significant contribution to the group’s marketing infrastructure since she joined the company five years ago. l Josero has partnered with PrintFactory to provide a comprehensive and streamlined service to customers. PrintFactory is a suite of workflow software that’s been made by a team of printers, to solve the everyday challenges faced by wide format printers. l Koehler Group has released its first sustainability report, which outlines how the company is working towards achieving the 17 United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. To read the report in full visit
www.printwearandpromotion.co.uk l Printful has partnered with Patternbank, a global pattern-design marketplace, to offer customers more than 500 brand-new patterns for the products they sell. l Gildan has ranked 177th in a list of the top 200 companies that are investing in a clean energy future. The list was compiled by You Sow and Corporate Knight. l A study carried out by the UK’s largest craft supplier, LoveCrafts, has found that COVID-19 has turned the nation into DIY crafters, with around 13% of Brits now crafting items to sell. l Lenzing has opened the world’s largest lyocell plant in Thailand. This plant has the capacity to produce 100,000 tons of sustainably produced fibres as demand grows.
One+All named Employer of the Year
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n March 3 at the Greater Manchester Good
Employment Awards 2022, One+All was named Employer of the Year.
Donald Moore, chair of One+All, said: “We’re living proof that happy colleagues lead to better results, so treating everyone fairly makes good business sense – and it’s the right thing to do.
“To be named Employer of the Year is an amazing endorsement of how we look after all our colleagues. We’re proud to be recognised as a role model for good employment practice, and hope we inspire more businesses to join the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter.” One+All was judged the winner of the Employer of the Year Award by a panel of hand-picked experts. The judging panel was impressed by the company’s approach to caring for its people, demonstrated by its B Corp status, Living Wage accreditation, extensive colleague benefits, flexible working practices, and training programmes.
Employee-owned One+All was one of the first six organisations in Greater Manchester to sign up as a member of the UK’s most comprehensive Good Employment Charter aimed at improving wages and employment standards.
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Donald Moore, chair, and Nicola Ryan, colleague support director, pictured at the event
Nicola Ryan, director of colleague support at One+All, added: “We’re really proud to win this award, as we’re incredibly passionate about everything it stands for. We’ve long worked to the principle that our success is a result of putting people before profit. In return, we want to be able to offer our colleagues the opportunity to fulfil their potential in a supportive, flexible and caring workplace.”
The awards celebrate members of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter delivering good employment practice, and were presented by Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, the driving force behind the inception of the charter.
The charter is a voluntary membership and assessment scheme which aims to improve employment standards across Greater Manchester employers, regardless of size, sector or geography.
Amaya reports successful three-day open event
maya’s three-day open event in February at its Nottingham showroom was a great success for both customers and participants. The show included live demonstrations of all Amaya’s equipment together with technical workshops on both the Texjet DTG printers and the Melco modular embroidery machines. The Roland print & cut and UV equipment was very popular together with the OKI white toner printers and Forever laser transfer
papers. A selection of Stahls’ heat presses was also on display.
In the Kornit Digital showroom there were fully working demonstrations of the Kornit
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Atlas system together with a workflow presentation each day showing how Kornit X can benefit any print on-demand business.
Visitors listening to a talk on the Polyprint Texjet
During the event customers also had the opportunity to meet with other suppliers including PenCarrie, Madeira and David Sharp. Dominic Bunce of David Sharp said: “It was a great turn out in spite of the rough weather, and great to see some faces, old and new for the first time in so many months.” Talks were given by
industry experts including Karen Burrows of Madeira, Phil Oakley of Kornit, Alex Cunliffe of Inkthreadable and Amaya’s very own Julian Wright.
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