Technical Managers Richard Gill, Steve Snape, Jason Manchester & Craig Lock have also attended and passed the ISO12647-2 Lead Auditors course with PMC. Richard Gill commented “We wanted to train with PMC as this verified our knowledge and further enabled us, on behalf of our customers, to gain an insight into exactly what the ISO12647-2 audit companies would be looking for. The service we provide reaches far wider than just the pressroom. We work across all sectors of a customer's business to ensure everyone meets the standard. Achieving and maintaining the standard means that all areas of a print business need to be involved in the process, not just the pressroom. It is also important that printers have the quality systems and procedures in place to support the print standard. Our team are qualified to fully consult and assess the printing companies we work with following the same stringent standards that PMC would insist upon prior to certification being granted”.

UGRA who along with the BPIF issue guidelines for the ISO12647-2 have audited and approved Stehlin Hostag Ink UK Ltd as a certified supplier to deliver ISO12647-2 consultancy to printing companies. Further information to support this can be found on the UGRA website http://www.ugra.ch/certified-suppliers.phtml and our services page

Both the PMC qualifications and the UGRA certification formalise their technical knowledge and competence as a team to be able to deliver ISO12647/2 nationwide.

Jon Stack, Scheme Manager at PMC commented “I am pleased to see that Stehlin Hostag will be supporting their customers in achieving the new BPIF ISO 12647-2 certification standard . Members of Stehlin Hostag’s technical sales team were amongst the first to be trained on PMC’s ISO 9001 with ISO 12647 Lead Auditor course, the only one of its kind in the world, and so are well qualified to provide high quality assistance to customers seeking to achieve the certification”