An expanding provider of digital copiers technology to 1,200 companies and organisations across southern England is celebrating two major achievements.
Canotec, headquartered in the New Forest, has been officially recognised as a leading player in connection with document workflows for the UK’s £25 billion legal sector.
The Ringwood-based firm, in its 20th anniversary, was shortlisted for the Best Technology Project in The Lawyer Awards 2012 in relation to digital printing and imaging solutions for a commercial law firm with five offices in the UK, including in Southampton.
Canotec’s work for Bond Pearce LLP removed six million pages a year, equivalent to 720 paper-producing trees, and contributed to a 9% reduction in the firm’s carbon footprint last year alone, with financial savings amounting to tens of thousands of pounds annually.
In a ‘David and Goliath’ battle in front of 1,400 lawyers in London, Canotec was pipped to the post by the slimmest of margins by IRIS Legal, the largest supplier of software packages and services to legal professionals in the UK and Ireland.
Canotec has already won two national awards for its green IT war on paper waste with a range of solutions such as no-hiding-place volume measurement and the digitisation of information.
Meanwhile the 50-strong firm has officially opened its new south-west office at The Paintworks, a thriving enterprise hub in Bristol.
Business has doubled in three years since the launch of the regional division, which was originally located near Bath.
Co-founder David Newman said: “Our green IT technology is reaping clear environmental and financial rewards for customers, driving down paper consumption by up to 40% in some cases, with associated welcome drops in energy and consumerables such as toners and cartridges. From what we’ve seen, most businesses have little idea what the true cost of their own document workflows are, even when the bill runs to tens of thousands of pounds annually.”
