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Premier launches eTEC FibreLite

September 2025 – Premier, a trusted UK supplier of print media and display materials, has announced the

Premier launches eTEC MagnetiX

Premier has expanded its Sign & Display portfolio to offer printers a smart solution for producing flexible

Premier and Drytac collaborate to bring a greener solution to the market, PaperTac

June 2025 – Premier, in collaboration with Drytac, are pleased to announce the launch of PaperTac, a

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Premier and Customers Join Forces with Woodland Trust to Create a Lasting Green Legacy

March 2025

Premier, in partnership with the Woodland Trust, held a tree planting event, as part of its ongoing industry leading Carbon Capture programme. The environmental initiative offers their customers an option to mitigate the CO2 emissions generated by the production, storage and distribution of the products purchased from Premier. Held at a 38-hectare (94-acre) site on […]

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Premier Enhances Sustainability Efforts with Solar Panel Installation Across UK Branches

January 2025

January 2025 – Premier, one of the UK’s leading distributors of paper and materials, has announced the installation of solar panels across its multiple branches as part of its ongoing commitment to sustainable business practices. This initiative marks a significant step towards reducing the company’s carbon footprint, with installations expected to be completed by the […]

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Rooted in Action: Premier and Woodland Trust Unite to Host Tree Planting Event at Smithills Estate

January 2025

January 2025 – On the 22 January 2025, Premier, the founder of the Carbon Capture® programme, partnered with the Woodland Trust to host a tree planting event at the historic Smithills Estate in Bolton. The event welcomed 50 of Premier’s Carbon Capture® customers to actively participate in planting 600 native trees, including oak, downy birch, […]

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Premier Celebrates £2 Million Milestone for Environmental Initiative with the Woodland Trust

November 2024

Previous Next November 2024 – Premier is thrilled to announce that its flagship environmental programme, Carbon Capture®, has achieved a remarkable milestone, with £2 million donated to the Woodland Trust. This support has funded the planting of 519,132 trees across the UK, which have the potential to capture an estimated 119,869 tonnes of CO2 over the trees’ lifetime. Through […]

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Tree Planting – Premier’s Planting the Seeds of Change at Frodsham’s Former Golf Course!

November 2023

November 2023 – Premier, a front-runner in environmental responsibility within the UK print industry, marked a significant milestone in its commitment to combat climate change, in collaboration with the Woodland Trust. On 15 November 2023, the picturesque former Frodsham golf course in north Cheshire blossomed into a haven for sustainability as 100 of Premier’s enthusiastic […]

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Tree Planting – The planet’s lungs just got 600 trees bigger!

February 2023

Premier’s first tree planting day of 2023 was a successful event which took place at Yonder Oak Wood in Devon. Devon was the birthplace of the Woodland Trust and over 50 years on, they have been able to purchase a large plot of land in the area to create Yonder Oak Wood, a vast wooded […]

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Tree Planting – Back to the Roots of Carbon Capture

December 2022

Pepper Wood is the home of where it all began. In Fairfield, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire Carbon Capture was born in partnership with Premier and the Woodland Trust. On the 6 December 2022, 30 of Premier’s dedicated environmental champions gave an early Christmas present back to mother nature. The small but mighty team of tree planters dug […]

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Another 4,000 Trees Planted for the Young People’s Forest

December 2021

    On Thursday 25th November, Premier teamed up with some of their customers, Sylvamo, Link Publishing, the Outdoor Guide and CBBC presenter Gemma Hunt to brave the cold and plant saplings with the Woodland Trust, at the Young People’s Forest in Mead, Derbyshire. Guests from around the UK, from Southampton to Glasgow, travelled to […]

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Premier and Customers Team up to Plant Trees at Kinclaven

March 2020

Grey skies hung over a cold, windy and wet Thursday morning at Kinclaven Bluebell Woods; several miles north of Perth, Scotland. Despite the rain however, spirits were far from dampened as around 80 intrepid Carbon Capture eco-warriors took to the fields, to plant trees with the Woodland Trust. On Thursday 12th March Premier Paper joined […]

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Premier Return to Pullabrook Woods

March 2020

For the fifth year in a row Premier Paper, their customers and the Woodland Trust returned to Pullabrook Wood on Dartmoor; to plant and maintain native woodland in the area. Thursday 27th February 2020, despite the cold start and the threat of bad weather, around 40 people met at 9am in Pullabrook Woods for some […]

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