Organisers of Ipex since 1994, Informa Exhibitions became its sole owner in 2006. IIR has an impressive track record in both trade events in general and the print industry in particular, including:

A global portfolio of events such as:

Northprint - Ipex South Asia - TOC - Vitafoods - Intermodal - Ro-Ro
 

• Established, constructive relationships with industry associations, media and suppliers
• A proven understanding of and commitment to the industry

Informa Exhibitions is part of The Informa Group, visit their website.

What we do

Informa provides academics, businesses and individuals with unparalleled knowledge, up-to-the minute information and highly specialist skills and services. With around 8,000 employees working in some 150 offices in over 40 countries, our global reach and breadth of offer is unique.

Our academic information division publishes books and journals with over 55,000 titles available that provide individuals and organisations with the knowledge they need to carry out their work.

Our professional and commercial information businesses offer structured databases, subscription-based services, real-time news, research and business-critical information creating business advantage.

We are the largest publicly-owned organiser of exhibitions, events and training in the world providing inspiring marketplaces and the opportunity for knowledge to be shared.

In all businesses we have the technology to deliver dynamic, multi-platform solutions tailored to our customers needs, we have many leading product brands in the various markets we work in and, due to our focus on operational efficiency and excellent management, we are highly respected by shareholders and the financial markets.

Our Environment

When considering the scale of global environmental issues, such as climate change, you may think that Informa has a relatively small impact.  But with over 10,000 employees working in more than 40 countries, producing 40,000 printed publications and holding more than 10,000 events annually, it all starts to add up…

Over the past few years, we’ve started to capture the scale of our impacts, firstly to understand them, but ultimately to find ways to reduce them as much as possible.  This has been a challenge and we still have a long way to go, but there is no doubt that sound environmental management has also delivered tangible financial benefits, which will only become more attractive over time.

Our Impacts

The key environmental impacts of our business are our supply chain; and business travel, including the indirect impact of delegates travelling to our events and conferences. 

We are an office-based business, so our direct energy consumption is not on the same scale as other industries.  Nevertheless, we still feel it important to measure this impact and set ourselves annual targets to reduce it.

What we are doing…

Managing our Print Supply Chain

Informa’s main publishing business, Taylor & Francis (T&F), has always had a strong commitment to the environment, which is why it chose to work towards FSC certification in 2008, and takes a proactive approach to managing its print suppliers.

All 6 of the printers that T&F Journals works with in the UK have been accredited to ISO14001 standards, whilst print suppliers to the books side of the business receive a questionnaire annually.  This is used to rank suppliers so we can drive improvement.

Print on Demand

Over the last 5 years, Print-on-Demand (POD) has been gathering momentum in the book industry thanks to rapid improvements in technology and quality. Journal publishers are now also starting to realise that POD is an attractive option in a market where print subscribers are relatively few, and digital printing is on the increase.

T&F has capitalised on this by introducing a system called Distributed Print on Demand (DPOD), which builds on the company’s long-term policy of ‘local printing’. Journals can now be printed and distributed on demand from the UK, US or Singapore with the nearest publisher used for each subscriber.

Business Travel

We are starting to measure business travel globally as well as investing in, and promoting the use of, video conferencing facilities. 

Our conferencing, events, and performance improvement consultancy and training businesses are also exploring web technology to remotely manage and deliver certain programme content.

Office Energy Consumption

All of our major offices (more than 50 people) monitor energy consumption.  One of the key focuses of our annual Green Week is to drive energy saving initiatives within these offices.