Tag Archive for: Label Printing

Sustainable Business Magazine

MRP feature in Sustainable Business Magazine

We are proud to be featuring in Sustainable Business Magazine, with our latest steps to help mitigate climate change and protect the environment.

Sustainability has always been at the very heart of what we do here at MRP. We feel it is crucial for each and every one of us to discover new and better ways of reducing our environmental impact and contribute towards mitigating the devastating effects of climate change on our planet. Additionally, we believe that there are numerous promising opportunities available to create a greener and brighter future.

At MRP, we have a strong commitment to eco-friendly practices that align with our values and beliefs. We are proud of what we have achieved so far and are constantly seeking new ways to lessen our impact on the environment.

Please see attached the link to the article: nottingham-packaging-label-specialist-partners-with-grow-my-tree-in-latest-move-to-help-tackle-climate-change/. We have a long history of implementing eco-friendly initiatives, which are central to the our values and ethos and we are proud of what we have achieved so far.

Sharing some of the ways we are accomplishing this.

We have partnered with Grow My Tree and we are planting a tree for every order we receive. We have already planted 5,002 trees, neutralising 110,000kg CO2

We support the World Land Trust by buying an acre of land every year (10 acres so far in Argentina, Kenya and South Africa).

 Supporting The World Land Trust’s ‘Restore Armenia’s Forests Appeal’

We are proud to have successfully been awarded ISO 14001 Environmental Management System certification for the fourth year running

We have successfully been awarded FSC Accreditation for the third year running.

We have replaced our compressed air system, saving an incredible 26,874kg CO2 per year – a 57.3% saving.

We are in the process of finalising the purchase of 290 solar panels to provide us with eco-friendly energy.

Minimise our environmental impact by committing to suitable recycling and waste minimising schemes, recycling all possible waste including paper, board, plastics, metal and most chemicals.

For more information please feel free to contact us.

Grow My Tree Partnership

MRP partnership with GROW MY TREE

We are proud to share our latest and very exciting news with you.

Sustainability has always been at the very heart of what we do here at MRP, we are on a mission to help fight climate change which is why we are very proud to be partnering with GROW MY TREE!

We have already planted 4,000 trees – neutralising a massive 88,000 CO2! For every order you place with us (no matter how big or small), we will plant a tree just for you. Our aim is to plant at least a further 4,000 trees this year.

GROW MY TREE works with countries in the Global South to plant trees where the environmental, social and economic leverage is greatest – ensuring all plantings are fair, sustainable and certified. Only trees native to that area with high survival rates are planted to protect the local flora and fauna – this also helps guarantee the long-term survival of the trees. Every tree is certified for full traceability.

The trees are planted in collaboration with local farmers, this generates income and supports local communities. Cultural traditions and the needs of the local communities are strictly taken into account, along with high ethical standards and fair wages.

With your help, we would like to plant as many trees as possible and we would like to thank you for helping us achieve what we have so far!

As these trees are planted from your orders, we can send you a personalised certificate for the number of trees you have helped plant over the last year, as well as future orders going forward.

If you would like to find out more about buying or gifting trees please feel free to contact us or see www.growmytree.com

Gordon Ramsay Future Food Stars

BBC1 Future Food Stars by Gordon Ramsay

We are very proud to announce we have had the incredible honour of producing the labels for the BBC1 Future Food Stars by Gordon Ramsay!

Episode 5 (Season 2) which aired last night, saw the two teams set with task of creating a bottled sauce, which they must then present to Sauce Shop (who have the most incredible sauces) and Gordon Ramsay for judging. The two sauces designed were Flaming Pineapple Molasses and Ha’Pea Ketchup. Ha’Pea Ketchup (best described as mushy peas meets curry sauce) was crowned the winning sauce and will be available for a limited time to buy at Sauce Shop – please see https://www.sauceshop.co/…/sauce-shop-x-gordon-ramsay…

We cannot give out too many details, however it was a very exciting night! After receiving the information for the artwork mid-afternoon, we had a few hours to create the artwork, make the printing plates and produce these labels. These labels were printed on our state of the art inline hybrid Mark Andy Pro 3 press with flexo UV white and digital CMYK.

It makes you really appreciate the work that goes off behind the scenes, so the contestants can continue with their tasks once the brief has been set.

We would love to have this opportunity to work with Gordon Ramsay again in the future! Thank you to Sauce Shop for the honour and we loved working with you on this.

Good luck to the final contestants! You are all incredible!

We would also like to say a massive THANK YOU to Brownett Ltd for stopping their production and producing these plates so quickly for us, we couldn’t have done this without them!

MRP – Named in the UK Top 500 Printers Again

We are very proud to be named as one of the UK’s Top 500 printers again for 2018 by PrintWeek, furthermore, we have moved up the rankings by 64 places to 397! Building on over 49 years of experience, we pride ourselves on our professional service and the long term relationships we build with both our customers and our loyal team. We feel we are small enough to remain personal but large enough to provide a professional standard of service.

Sharing some interesting printing facts and figures:

  • £700 Million – spent in Capital Investment
  • The UK is the World’s fifth largest producer of printed products
  • £13.8 Billion – Turnover
  • 116,000 – Employees
  • £775 Million – Positive Trade Balance
  • £6.1 Billion – Gross Value Added
  • 8,200 – Companies in the UK

Please see http://www.printweek.com, http://www.britishprint.com and www.mrp.uk.com for more information.

Labels Awards Evening

FlexoTech International Labels Awards Winner

As you may know we entered one of our favourite range of labels into this year’s prestigious FlexoTech International Print & Innovation Awards – and guess what… we did it! We had been shortlisted in the ‘Best use of flexo within a single forme’ category and were delighted to be named the winner at a black-tie awards ceremony and dinner at the Hilton London Metropole on the 13th October.

It was a great honour to win this award for a range of labels we produced for food manufacturer, Pureety’s, Ultimate Marinade Glaze product. The labels were printed on our 7 colour press in 4 colour process and were then given an overall matt varnish, and finally a spot gloss UV, to give a really striking effect,’ said Stephen Tew

The FlexoTech judges agreed, describing the winning label range as ‘One of the best examples of the use of flexo in printing a complex set of designs from the four colour set, with registration and vibrancy being maintained throughout.’

Stephen Tew, Stephen Bates, Catherine Tew and Matt Seaford attended the event hosted by Whitmar Publications, this was a truly international evening, with around 450 people in attendance from leading labelling manufacturers around the globe. And whilst the companies themselves might not be household names, many of the nominated products certainly were, with ranges from top brands such as Asda, L’Oreal, Sharwood’s, Dettol and Coca-Cola all up for Flexo-Tech awards.

We are now looking forward to entering into next year’s awards – thank you to everyone for all your support.

http://www.paperandprint.com/flexotech/awards.aspx

winner                      awardglen