The award prize ceremony was presided by the Honourable Conseller de Territori i Sostenibilitat, el Sr. Lluís Recoder i Miralles, tha last 15th December 2011, at 19.00 at Casa Convalescència (Hospital de Sant Pau). This act was carried out by the famous TV3 weatherman, Francesc Mauri.

Like every year, these prizes were aimed to recognize the environmental task carried out by the EMAS companies, as well as the effort made by all the people who work in them.

The company has just carried out the first annual revision of its Action Plan, which was designed last year. This project was aimed to cooperate on the Agenda21 project, which was created by the UN and was set out at the Rio Conference on 1992. In tis context, all countries reached the agreement to cooperate at a global and local level. What is more, countries made the commitment to legislate adequately but at the same time to stimulate cooperation amongst cities and citizens as well. This project, summing up, was created in order to advance to a society which produces in a top-quality but at the same time innocuous way, but without forgetting wellness.

Gràfiques Ortells, as it can be seen at the Action plan, has successfully covered almost all its initial objectives. Moreover, new objectives have been set up, as well as non-successful activities have been redefined.

You can have a look at the Action Plan at the link: http://80.33.141.76/agenda21/fitxa_signants.php?id=631#

The tRanSparEncia programme has been set up to motivate companies to build up and implant Corporate Social Responsibility throughout the productive process. This initiative is believed to foment respectful and environmentally friendly business relations.

This is a pioneer programme in the world, fomented by the Consell General de Cambres Catalunya, and economically supported by Generalitat de Catalunya (Servei d'Ocupació de Catalunya i Departament d'Empresa Ocupació) and the European Social Fund, which will take place in collaboration with the Global Reporting Initiative (International referent in the area of CSR).

TRanSparEncia will try to help the small Catalan companies to implant management systems which are based on CSR through teaching conferences as well as offering funds and support in order to help corporations initiate, continue and report about their management on sustainability, as well as improving their current management system and efficiency.

In this process, big companies have participated as mentors to the small companies which work for them. Their presence will definitely strengthen the commercial relations amongst big and small companies. These chosen companies will be part of a group of 80 small Catalan companies which will benefit from different advantages in their process of CSR building throughout 2011.

Given our commitment to the environment we have replaced our CTP which used traditional development for a new model which does not need any developing.

These high-tech procedures are based on the use of “AMIGO” printing plates. These plates are made of a latex microballs emulsion. When exposed to the thermal plate, the latex from the areas where there is an image hardens, whereas the areas where there is no image are cleaned with a watery solution. However, this solution is completely harmless and does no generate toxic waste. Moreover, its useful life is 10 times longer than the rest of developing methods.

Apart from the advantages explained before, we do also have to mention the fact that energy consumption is much more efficient than before. Given that the cleaner works at the room temperature, we don’t need a tempering machine any longer. Therefore, we need much less energy than we used to require.

Last but no least, this high-quality technology makes it possible to film printing plates more accurately. To sum up, this new technology will definitely help the company develop and evolve to a new level where sustainable production is possible without losing any quality at all.

On the last 27th May, Gremi d'indústries Gràfiques de Catalunya organized the 60th awards ceremony, in which there were different categories where all the printers from Catalunya could participate. This year, this event was placed on RDC Espanyol Stadium.

On the awarded book "LES PREGUNTES SÓN MÉS IMPORTANTS QUE LES RESPOSTES?" (Are questions more important than answers?"), David Torrents, its designer, gathered together all the events from FAD during 2010.

With reference to David Torrents, this prize is added to a long list of prizes, which clearly reflect his brilliant career. The book consists of 800 pages, distributed in different sections which have different types of paper, such as paper with fine non-coated fibers or glossy coated paper.