ISO 14000: 2004 Environmental Management
Whirlwind Print achieved this standard in 2007 and remains fully compliant.

The ISO 14000 family is primarily concerned with "environmental management".

In a changing world requires us to change our practices to help create a sustainable future. So what does the environmental standard mean? Well, the purpose of the standard is to protect the environment, to prevent pollution and improve environmental practices.

As an organisation what we have to do is:

• Minimize harmful effects on the environment caused by its activities, and to
• Achieve continual improvement of our environmental performance.

As part of our environmental stewardship we have made, and continue to make, changes to our green printing process:

• Our production process includes 100% use of computer to plate technology, which means no film and no silver chemicals.
• We recycle 100% of our aluminium plates, at least 95% of all cardboard, computers, monitors, glass, ink tins, paper containers and drink bottles, polythene packaging and timber pallets. In terms of paper alone that's approximately 33 tonnes per week.
• We select paper stocks from sustainable timber resources which are bleached using Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) technology. We offer a premium range of 100% recycled and FSC certified paper stocks ideal for high quality printing.
• A rigorous paper procurement policy which specifies suppliers with environmentally-focused ethics and paper stocks from sustainable forest material.
• Paper wastage is reduced by providing an on-line proofing service, and optimising paper our use with Metrix software. Our offset printing technique not only reduces paper wastage but more efficiently uses energy.
• Our laminator has been modified to operate with completely recycled water saving 42,000 litres of water a year. Water saving technology fitted to our CTP machinery has reduced water requirements by 67% - saving 600 000 litres of water annually.
• 100% of our CMYK inks we use are based on a mixture of soy and linseed vegetable oils (excludes metallics).
• Our printing process operates alcohol-free.
• All our cardboard packaging is 100% recycled board. 
• We fitted our new manufacturing facilities at Knoxfield, with environmentally-friendly flooring and work surfaces and recycled materials.
• Our 5 colour Komori press can apply aqueous varnish to a job - a more environmentally friendly coating which is more easily recycled than laminated products.

At Whirlwind Print we will continue to define and develop sustainable business practices, working towards becoming carbon neutral by 2013 and continuing to set industry standards.