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News Release from: Heidelberg
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 July 2004
Heidelberg Takes Stock In Sustainability
Report
Heidelberg is to publish its new Sustainability Report for 2003-2004.
Heidelberg is to publish its new Sustainability Report for 2003-2004 With more than 50 pages and a ten-year overview, the report provides an overview of Heidelberg's corporate philosophy and examines the past fiscal year, whilst looking at the prospects for the future
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 6 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The report also sees Heidelberg outline its commitment to environmental protection and to inform the public about its efforts to safeguard the interests of its workforce and maintain a good environment at its facilities.
The company believes the publication can be used as a basis for an open dialogue with stakeholders on questions of sustainability at Heidelberg and shows the ways in which Heidelberg believes it is able to take into account and balance demands and possibilities in relation to sustainability.
As in the previous four fiscal years, the latest report was drawn up on the basis of the guidelines of global reporting initiative of June 2002.
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The objective of the initiative is to promote the international harmonisation of reporting on economic, environmental and social achievements at corporate level in order to foster responsible decision-making.
After three years of economic difficulties, Heidelberg said it is taking stock.
Its new alignment was initiated and implemented during the reporting period by focusing on sheetfed offset printing, the pre-press and post-press added value sectors and on customer-oriented services.
Bernhard Schreier, Heidelberg's chief executive officer said: "It is our desire and indeed obligation to justify the trust placed in us by significantly improving productivity and increasing value." With more than 50 technological innovations in the workflow, pre-press, press and post-press sectors, the company said it launched around 30 per cent more innovations and new product features at Drupa 2004 than in the boom year of 2000.
In the highly industrialised offset printing sector, Heidelberg signalled what it believes to be a new era in terms of productivity, quality and cost-effectiveness with the Speedmaster XL 105.
The company added that it indicated the high value that it consistently places on environmental and social responsibility in its overall strategy with the approval of the new guidelines for environmental protection, workplace safety and product safety and with the opening of its environmental information centre at the company headquarters in Heidelberg.
The Speedmaster CD 74 UV and CD 102 UV were the first printing presses in the world to be awarded the 'Optimierter UV-Druck' (optimised UV printing) certificate from the German Berufsgenossenschaft Druck und Papierverarbeitung eV said the company.
The award is given to UV presses that break new ground in terms of health and safety, environmental protection and operator safety.
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