#Challenge Green

We are going GREEN!

The team here at Greens the Signmakers, spearheaded by managing Director Lawrence Green, have made great strides in the last couple of years to making our business far more environmentally friendly. Initially starting by changing how we manufacture printed goods, the project has now developed into how we power their building and also our modes of transport.

Secondly by investing in a new printer, The HP R2000. We are now able to offer fully recyclable products to all customers and for all types of signage. As the ink is water based, it doesn’t change the properties of the material you print on, therefore if it was flameproof before, it remains flame proof afterwards and more importantly if it was recyclable before, the material remains recyclable afterwards.

We didn’t stop there and our next task was to look at reducing the carbon foot print of the business. Earlier in the year  the installation of our own solar farm on the roof of our 26,000sq ft premises in Hull was completed. With 208 individual large solar panels we now have a system capable of drawing 88Kw of energy direct from the sun, enough that even on a typical Yorkshire day the factory is powered directly from our own solar panels with the added benefit of giving back green energy to the grid on a weekend.

An ongoing stage has been changing our fleet of vehicles over to electric. local deliveries and meetings for the project managers are mainly attended in electric vehicles, even their forklift is electric! With thousands of miles being driven each month while mainly charging up from our own solar panels you would struggle to find a supplier greener than Greens.