250,000 climate neutral orders / E-commerce printer Onlineprinters reaches milestone

Neustadt a. d. Aisch / Munich (ots) - Online print shop
Onlineprinters has reached an important milestone with a quarter of a
million carbon neutral print orders: In 250,000 cases, customers
deliberately chose to offset the carbon emissions generated by
producing their order by sponsoring a climate protection project.
Since Onlineprinters introduced carbon neutral production in 2013,
they have been able to offset 7,900 tons of carbon. This is
equivalent to the carbon emissions a car would produce if it were to
travel all roads worldwide: just under 32 million kilometres.

Carbon neutral printing at a mouse click

"The figure of 250,000 is sensational. This shows that our
customers want to act sustainably and that Onlineprinters promotes
environmental protection," CEO Michael Fries comments. Due to the
sheer number of orders, the online printing business model in
particular allows printed advertising material to be produced in a
resource-saving manner since the machines can be utilized
efficiently. But still carbon emissions cannot be eliminated
completely. So customers can offset the unavoidable amount of carbon
when ordering in the online shop by contributing less than one
percent of the purchase price to fund one of several climate
protection projects of their choice such as reforestation or the
promotion of renewable energies.

Holistic climate protection strategy

In cooperation with ClimatePartner, an ID and a QR code are
generated for the ordered product so that the order details become
transparent for the end customers, too. "We provide our IT solutions
to nearly 1,000 print shops in Europe. Since 2013, this has offset
carbon emissions of well over 1,000,000 orders through climate
protection projects. Onlineprinters alone produced 25 % of all its
orders in a carbon neutral manner, making the company a role model
for the industry," Moritz Lehmkuhl explains; he is the Managing
Director of ClimatePartner. The recent certification according to the
French Imprim'Vert ("green printing") eco label confirms the climate
protection strategy of Onlineprinters in further stages along the
production chain.

About the company

The Onlineprinters Group, which operates under the brand name of
diedruckerei.de in Germany, is one of the leading online print shops
in Europe. Employing a staff of more than 1,400, Onlineprinters
produced 2.5 billion+ printed advertising products last year. More
than 1,500 print products including business cards, letterheads,
flyers, catalogues, brochures, large-format advertising systems and
more are sold to 800,000 customers in 30 European countries through
18 web shops. Internationally, the provider of online print services
is known under the brand name of Onlineprinters. British market
leader Solopress and LaserTryk, the Scandinavian number one, are
members of the Onlineprinters Group.

Contact:
Patrick Piecha
Head of Press & Public Relations

press@onlineprinters.com
Phone: +49 9161 6209807
Mobile: +49 174 30 77 250

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