As you may be aware, City & West End (CWE) Solutions Ltd. was established in November 1999 following a management buy out of CWE Reprographics, who established its services in 1970. CWE Reprographics supplied drawing offices with their office supplies. CWE Solutions have moved the business forward with the aim of becoming a major player in the large format graphics industry. Since 1999 we have achieved double digit growth year on year and have firmly established ourselves within the UK market place. We pride ourselves on our high technology support and solutions ensuring our customers needs are met in a proactive and reliable way.

We have positioned ourselves as HP’s main partner now catering for a whole host of technology from Inkjet, Solvent, UV Curable to the latest latex designs. It is our goal as a company to supply the best solution for our clients and grow our business whilst keeping a firm eye on the impact that we and our technologies are having on the environment. We are now seeing a growth in printing technologies with a requirement to provide a greener solution and it is our aim that CWE Solutions will be the supplier for the green choice.

As a highly regarded customer of CWE Solutions Ltd, we are pleased to announce that we have now been awarded our FSC®, PEFC and ISO14001 Certifications in a bid to provide the most effective service to yourselves and our planet!

• The Forest Stewardship Council is an international, independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation promoting responsible forest management.
• FSC promotes standards for forest management which are used for certifying the management of forests, and a system called ‘Chain of Custody’ for tracing, verifying and labelling timber and other wood products derived from FSC-certified forests, through to the end user.

Further details of their mission statements, aims and legislation can be found at www.fsc.org.

• The PEFC Council (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, founded in 1999 which promotes sustainably managed forests through independent third party certification. The PEFC provides an assurance mechanism to purchasers of wood and paper products that they are promoting the sustainable management of forests.
• PEFC is a global umbrella organisation for the assessment of and mutual recognition of national forest certification schemes developed in a multi-stakeholder process. These national schemes build upon the inter-governmental processes for the promotion of sustainable forest management, a series of on-going mechanisms supported by 149 governments in the world covering 85% of the world's forest area.
• PEFC has in its membership 35 independent national forest certification systems of which 25 to date have been through a rigorous assessment process involving public consultation and the use of independent assessors to provide the assessments on which mutual recognition decisions are taken by the membership. These 25 systems account for more than 200 million hectares of certified forests producing millions of tonnes of certified timber to the market place making PEFC the world's largest certification system. The other national members schemes are at various stages of development and are working towards mutual recognition under the PEFC processes.

More information can be found at www.pefc.org.

By selling FSC & PEFC paper, CWE Solutions can give you peace of mind that your purchase has followed chain of custody and should you wish could be traced back to the exact forest it was sourced from. We anticipate that this is the future of paper products and our fully trained sales staff will be happy to discuss this further, please call 08444 829895.

As a company we have done a full environmental profile and review of our environmental credentials, we have put in several measures that have and will continue to improve our companies environmental performance. You can now rest assured that when dealing with CWE Solutions, be it sales, delivery receipt or engineering, we are operating in the most environmentally aware and compliant way ensuring you receive the best service. For more information please visit http://www.bmtrada.co.uk/environmental.php

CWE Solutions recognises the importance of environmental considerations and the impact our business can potentially have on the environment. We will ensure that we comply with all legislative and any other requirements applicable to our business, and the industry requirements within which we operate, to ensure that we continually strive to reduce our environmental footprint wherever possible.

CWE Solutions are a successful reseller of large format printers and their consumables, we also provide software engineering and installation support to ensure end to end satifaction to our customers. Throughout all stages of our business, from planning, to selling, storage and shipping of products and on site installation, we will consider and understand the implications to the environment whilst continuing to produce a high quality customer experience, we will take all practical steps to anticipate and prevent possible pollution events. In addition to this, we will ensure that we keep Environmental awareness training of all of our staff current.

In order to drive our philosophy of continual improvement and to remain environmentally viable, the following company objectives have been put into place and will be pursued as far as is reasonably practicable:

• Conservation of energy.
• Conservation of natural resources used in our sales, proofing and dispatch operations, particularly in the use of packaging.
• Minimisation of waste in production and packaging.
• Recycle waste where possible.
• Provision of safe, clean and hygienic working conditions.

Doug Gilbertson
Managing Director