PIAA helps print company save on power bill

The Printing Industries Association of Australia (PIAA) has helped the Bright Print Group save up to 11 percent on the company’s energy bill through a new initiative in conjunction with group buying exchange EMSquared.

An upcoming series of seminars presented by PIAA will show other printers how they can cut down on their energy costs, which is timely considering electricity will be getting increasingly difficult to afford in Australia with prices going up on the 1st February of this year.

Nick Bendel, writer for Proprint, said that Bright Print Group had,

‘negotiated a better rate after its three-year contract came to an end. The Sydney based printer will pay less than half the standard customer rate.’

Director of Bright Print Group Director Debbie Burgess said,

‘The PIAA initiative will help those companies that have never gone to market or don’t realize the opportunities available by going to market. Bright Print had already found ways to reduce its power bills by cutting down on electricity use and using more efficient technology.’

PIAA will be encouraging printing companies to travel in from suburbs like Braeside to find out how to integrate cleaner technologies into their manufacturing process, which will help manage the rising cost of energy in Australia.

PIAA National Manager for policy and government affairs, Hagop Tchamkertenian said he couldn’t guarantee every print company could save as much as Bright Print but that he expected that any savings would be welcome in these challenging times of rising costs in Australia.

The seminars will be held in April and May of this year and the three-hour sessions will be held in Brisbane (17 April), Sydney (18 April), Canberra (19 April), Melbourne (1 May), Hobart (2 May), Adelaide (3 May) and Perth (4 May).