Tag: SOFEA
SOFEA AGM 2018
SOFEA encourages sustainability in the European industry of office supplies. To inspire manufacturers to continuously improve their products and to motivate resellers to communicate about the importance of sustainability. Together the industry is contributing...
SOFEA rating system
The SOFEA rating system is pragmatic, transparent and uniform system measuring the product environmental performance of office supplies.The outcome is an A-to-E product rating, where an A stands for a highly innovative product and...
Review: Big Buyer 2017
At the end of November, about 7,000 visitors congregated in Bologna, Italy, to see what 280 exhibitors from across Europe had to offer in terms of innovative new products and services.Big Buyer General Director...
Setting the standards
OPI: Let's start with a brief overview of SOFEA.Anita Singh-Gunther: SOFEA is a European association for the office supplies sector focusing on the environmental impact of the industry. We owe our existence to resellers...
Event: OPI European Forum 2017
Around 90 leading figures from the OP industry converged in Berlin in June for the OPI European Forum2017.On the eve of the event, delegates met at the 5-star event venue, the Westin Grand Hotel, in...
European Forum 2017 kicks off in Berlin
Around 90 leading members of the OP industry have gathered in Berlin for the OPI 2017 European Forum.Last night, delegates met for relaxed dinner and drinks before today’s full schedule of presentations and roundtables,...
5 mins with… Steffie Verbeek
What’s your life philosophy? In the end, everything will work out for the best.What’s your most prized possession? I’d prefer not to refer to them as ‘possessions’, but my two children are the most important ‘things’...
Big Interview: Living and breathing sustainability
Bureau Vallée is founded on the principle of ‘sustainable discount’; even the company name and logo are a nod to the importance that founder and CEO Bruno Peyroles places on the need for humankind and...
Becoming a reality
Sustainable Office European Association (SOFEA) President Matthias Schumacher says he is looking forward to a positive 2017 after the environmental product rating organisation made good progress on a number of fronts during the past year....
Sponsored Article: SOfEA
The Sustainable Office European Association (SOfEA) started two years ago as an industry initiative to bring together resellers and manufacturers to discuss how to solve the problem of ‘overkill’ regarding the sheer number of questionnaires...
Making a difference
The first story is about Stride, an OP manufacturer and distributor based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that has made it its core purpose to employ people with special needs. OPI spoke to company CEO...
SOfEA to provide update at Paperworld
The Sustainable Office European Association (SOfEA) is holding an event at Paperworld in Frankfurt on 1 February 2016.The association – which is working to create a standardised environmental rating system for office products in...
Big Read
Podcast: Discussing sustainability with Mondi UFP
If you are an OPI subscriber, you should have seen or even received the latest issue of OPI magazine, which is our annual Green...
