Contact Originators, a leading name in print prepress services for the corrugated, flexible packaging and label sectors, is celebrating after winning the Sustainability Award at the North West Business Desk Business of the Year Awards 2024.

Based in Duckinfield, Greater Manchester, the Contact team was presented with the award at The Midland Hotel in Manchester, on October 10, as over 400 guests gathered to celebrate the success of the region’s businesses.

Contact Originators’ success underlines the company’s sustainability ethos, which is ingrained in everything that it does from its prepress operations and services to its commitment to environmental initiatives such as UN Global Compact, Carbon Neutral Britain, SEDEX, and Zero Waste to Landfill.

Jo Grundy, Quality & Systems Manager at Contact Originators, commented:

“At Contact, our core focus is sustainability, both in what we do and how we do it. We are pleased to win the Sustainability Award at the North West Business Desk Business of the Year Awards against some very tough competition and to receive recognition for our efforts in this field is something we are very proud of. 

“We are a business that is committed to leading the way in environmental and sustainability standards. We want to use our experience as a much broader force for good, helping the packaging supply chain to operate with quality and sustainability at its heart. We are working tirelessly at our multi-million-pound Dukinfield supersite to deliver the highest quality and precision with the lowest possible environmental impact by using our unique experience to find new efficiencies and develop energy and cost-saving tools for our customers.”

This latest award win closely follows the announcement that Contact Originators had been rated Gold by EcoVadis. This placed Contact in the top 1% of companies worldwide rated by EcoVadis in the printing and service activities related to the printing industry, cementing its place as an influential market leader.

To find out more about Contact Originators and its range of products and services to packaging printers and brand owners, please visit contact-group.co.uk.