Annual Report 2004 - HL Display

HL Display’s new Slimline shelf-edge strip can be adapted to carry electronic
price labels from all of the major manufacturers.
many years, resulting in significant efficiency gains.
Efforts are being made within HL Display to make business intelligence
information quickly accessible as a foundation for decision-making.
During the year system support was also extended to
include a forecast module and a customer project module.
The forecast module replaces the budget model previously used
by HL Display, and the aim is to achieve increased quality in cost
and revenue planning. The system also offers support for early
warnings, i.e. potential problem areas are identified at an early
stage and can thus be rectified before they cause major problems.
The customer project module provides support for HL Display’s
sales organisation in its work on major customer projects. The
aim is to provide a simple tool that helps the sales organisation
gain better control over all activities included in large, complex
customer projects. The module is also an element of HL Display’s
work to improve the quality and secure the information in the sales
process.
The environment
HL Display has an ongoing environmental programme, based on
the company’s environmental policy. This work takes place at each
production site, under the guidance of an Environment and Quality
Manager, who is responsible for developing plans, implementing
projects and following up and reporting on action taken in the environmental
field. Only one of HL Display’s factories has activities
that involve an obligation to register, relating to the use of solvents
in screen-printing. There are no production facilities that require
permits under the Environmental Code.
Environmental certification is an important external assessment
of HL Display’s environmental work. It is the company’s objective
that all production facilities shall undergo the environmental audit
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HL Display’s segmentation strip enables stores to add information alongside
products to make life easier for the consumer.
and certification in accordance with the international standard for
environmental management systems, ISO 14001. HL Display’s
two largest production facilities, Falun and Sundsvall, are already
certified in accordance with this standard. During the year the factory
in Karlskoga also underwent an environmental audit and was
certified in accordance with ISO 14001.
Most of HL Display’s environmental impact is caused by PVC
waste from production. In 2004 HL Display generated 892 tonnes
of PVC waste in production, of which 700 tonnes were sent to
recycling. In relative terms this is an increase in recycled PVC of
7.7 per cent. The PVC used by HL Display is free of phthalates and
through a collaboration with the main supplier of raw materials,
HL Display attempts to increase the degree of recycled material in
the PVC that is purchased.
At present the company can manufacture all products in alternative
materials. This is a core element of the investments being
made in machinery, as machines must be able to manufacture
using several materials.
UV paint is increasingly being used for screen-printing at the
factory in Falun, instead of the traditional solvent-based paint. In
contrast to regular paint, UV paint does not dry through the evaporation
of solvents, but by means of UV radiation in a so-called UV
drier. 34.7 per cent of all screen-printing now uses UV paint.
During the year HL Display implemented energy-saving measures
at some of its production facilities. A closed cooling system has
been implemented in the machines in the Karlskoga factory, and
HL Display’s biggest production facility, Sundsvall, is being heated
with waste heat from the machines.
HL DISPLAY ANNUAL REPORT 2004