EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS

At JPA, we are focused on exceeding our customer’s expectations in the quality and service we provide.

You can expect quality workmanship in everything we do. Our steadfast integrity, coupled with our dedicated and experienced staff is unparalleled in the industry.

JPA Going Green

At JPA we are committed to doing everything possible to be a good citizen of the world and to protect our environment and conserve energy.

We are concerned about a clean water supply, making sure that the earth and our water is not contaminated by any of our actions. We want to make sure the air we breathe is clean and healthy and that we are good custodians of our environment. We are also concerned about excess consumption of our resources, such as natural gas and electrical energy. We will continue to conserve consumption of natural gas and electricity along with other petroleum-based chemicals used in our production processes and we will do all we can to conserve our natural resources, both renewable and non-renewable, and especially our forests.

Some of our accomplishments:

We have eliminated the use of photographic films and the chemicals used to process them, thereby reducing the amount of hazardous material in our wastewater.

We have changed the type of printing plates used on our presses and now use plates whose processing effluent is biodegradable and does no damage to the environment. All of our used plates are sold to a recycling company and the aluminum material is reprocessed into other products.

We have installed Portal (by Agfa), a software and hardware package for our customers to use that encourages the use of "soft" or electronic proofs instead of paper proofs, which reduces the use of paper and ink and eliminates the transportation costs. In addition, the use of CDs and DVDs along with their packaging materials has all but been eliminated. Most old CDs and DVDs ended their lives in the "trash".

We have significantly reduced the amount of paper wasted during the press make-ready process via a software product called CIP4 which is the communication of ink requirement information from our prepress to software on the printing press, which then allows the press computer to "pre-set" ink levels so that the first sheet printed on each press form has "almost" perfect color.

We use software that reduces ink consumption by eliminating the excessive and unnecessary use of ink.

We made a considerable investment to convert our entire printing plant to highly efficient furnaces and air conditioners to minimize the use of fuel to heat our buildings in the wintertime and electrical energy for cooling during the summer. This has resulted in an 80% reduction in JPA’s consumption of natural gas. And, along these lines, as we completed remodeling of our plant we insulated all of the exterior walls and replaced all of the old factory windows that were totally inefficient.

We are in the process of converting the entire plant over to high efficiency lighting systems in order to conserve electrical energy.

We adapted press chemicals that have less than 1% VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) and do not emit any harmful chemicals into the air or contaminated water into our sewer system. This is down from in excess of 20% just a few years ago. We use no alcohol and no alcohol substitute in our press fountain solutions.

The inks that we have been buying contain both linseed and soy oils, both of which are biological vegetable oils from renewable agricultural sources. The VOC’s in our current inks are in the 11.6% range by weight, down from in excess of 25% just a few years ago. While our inks do not contain enough soy oil to allow the use of the "soy ink logo", our customers may use the Sun Chemicals "Green Technology" logo. Contact your Customer Service Representative and we will send you an eps file which you may place in your magazine.

None of the paper stock used at JPA contains wood pulp from trees harvested from clear-cut forests. In the United States and Canada, paper companies have been involved in growing trees especially for wood and for the manufacture of paper for years. The trees are in reality a renewable agricultural material. For years, the reforestation rate in North America has been two seedlings planted for every tree harvested.

Many of the papers we inventory contain 10% post consumer waste and paper with up to 30% post-consumer waste is available from JPA. These papers do cost more to manufacture, however, and there is an up-charge for them. We have several customers who have elected to use paper with high-content post-consumer waste and we are most willing to help with this process if you so desire.

All of the paper waste that is generated at JPA is sold to paper recycling companies for processing into other materials. This includes the make ready material from the press, trim shavings from our trimmers, and paper material left over once we have finished the job. This material is remanufactured into other paper based products.

In 2008 we spent several thousands of dollars to purchase plastic reusable pallets for use in our plant so that we no longer purchase wooden pallets. We did this to save costs in the long term and for the safety of our employees, but also in order to conserve on the consumption of forest products.

Our new air compressor is designed to save electricity by cycling off when there is no demand for compressed air. This feature can save 10% of the electrical energy used to create compressed air for our machinery.

JPA intends to continue to be the responsible choice for your printing needs.