54   Sign Update      ISSUE 190 MARCH 2020

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Displays Europe and former CEO of the Jansen Display Group. “This merger allows us to achieve our goal of providing our customers with the best service. When it comes to our product range, Promic and Jansen Display really complement each other. Together, we can offer a range that completely covers our customers’ needs for illuminated signs, photo back walls, digital displays and hospitality equipment.” In addition to expanding its product range, Showdown Displays is working on further developing its printing services. “Right now we are in the last stage of setting up a new printing hall at our manufacturing location in the Czech Republic,” says Vit. “Bringing high end products and quality prints together, our reseller customers can now come to us for all-in, ready-to-use display products. We are now the one-stop-shop for their success story. As of May 2020 we will completely switch to the name and the new visual style of Showdown Displays.”

Promic and Jansen merge to become Showdown Displays Europe

built a strong reputation throughout Europe as providers of high quality displays and signage systems. With the merger, Showdown Displays Europe says it will be the largest supplier and manufacturer of promotional signs, display systems and POS materials. “With our mutual drive to deliver quality for the right price and our ambition to become the first choice for resellers, Promic and Jansen Display have joined forces,” says Vít Zajíček, president of Showdown

Promic Display Systems and Jansen Display have joined forces under the name Showdown Displays Europe. In October 2018 Sign-Zone (a leading display manufacturer in the North American market) became the owner of Jansen Display and in May 2019 Promic became part of the Sign-Zone Group. After operating as independent entities, it soon became clear that the two companies would be even stronger together. Both Promic and Jansen have

Antalis UK has announced that all material purchased from its papers, packaging and visual communications ranges can now be carbon offset, with some paper ranges already supplied as fully carbon balanced, to ensure that it can serve the needs of interested customers and help them achieve their environmental goals. Working together with partners from Forest Carbon and World Land Trust, Antalis is able to calculate the kilograms of carbon emissions it takes to procure any material type including plastics, aluminium composite material and nylon. These carbon credits can be purchased by customers to support the creation of new UK woodlands (via Forest Carbon and the Antalis Woodlands); preserve global forests (via Forest Carbon in South America or a World Land Trust project in Vietnam); or a blend of all three options. Antalis’ partner Forest Carbon “leads the way in voluntary carbon woodland creation in the UK and abroad”. Since 2006 it has

planted more than 8 million trees in the UK and a further 2.5 million overseas, equating to the removal of over 2.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In collaboration with World Land Trust through their Carbon Balanced Paper scheme, Antalis is enabling its customers to balance the unavoidable carbon emissions of paper-based

Promic and Jansen have built strong reputations as providers of high quality displays.

Colleagues from Commercial Ltd, Cheltenham, join Antalis and Forest Carbon for a tree planting day.

Antalis announces universal carbon offsetting

products. The money raised supports World Land Trust projects in Vietnam, one of the most biologically diverse countries on Earth. To date, 16,000 acres of standing forest at threat of clearance has been protected. World Land Trust has enabled approximately 169,000 tonnes of carbon emissions to be absorbed every year while protecting 41 threatened, endangered and critically endangered wildlife species. CSR manager Matthew Botfield says: “Sustainability is at the heart of what we do. Every day, we are working toward reducing our own environmental footprint while providing innovative solutions to our customers. Antalis is proud to support customers in offsetting their own carbon emissions and to give them clear choices in support of UK or global schemes. “Both our schemes are backed up with relevant certificates and logos to help them reassure their customers that they are operating as sustainably as possible.”