Environmental footprint

Our environmental practices are built around the equipment we actually run and the materials we actually buy — not a general promise. Here is what that means in our facility in Abu Dhabi.

Beyond printing, our cutting and finishing floor runs on computer-guided equipment — a Mimaki plotter cutter, a CNC cutting machine, a laser cutter and a die-cutting machine — rather than manual cutting alone. Guided cutting nests shapes more efficiently on a sheet than cutting by hand, which is where material scrap is actually created or avoided.

We run offset presses alongside a digital production press (the Xerox Iridesse). A digital press has no plate to set up, so a small order can be printed to the exact quantity needed instead of the larger minimum run an offset plate makes economical — one of the more direct ways printing volume turns into waste.

Paper, board and material offcuts from daily production are collected and sent to a certified recycling and sustainability partner — roughly 1.5 to 2 tonnes at a time — rather than disposed of as general waste. We also work to reduce offcut waste at the source, in how a job is planned and cut, not only after the fact.

Where a suitable option exists, we choose paper and substrate suppliers with more environmentally conscious production, alongside our standard commercial-grade materials.

Every certification above belongs to the equipment or ink/toner manufacturer, as they publish it — not to Art for Printing Industry as a company.