Giraffe regularly host and speak at events across the globe. See our team at the following events or take advantage of an October series of product and packaging workshops in London and the South East.

June 2008

FREE – CARBON FOOTPRINTING AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT WORKSHOPS FROM THE Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS), GIRAFFE & BIFFA

Your company has the opportunity to attend 6 FREE workshops.

4 Workshops: CARBON FOOTPRINT your product and packaging to improve environmental performance and reduce costs.

2 Workshops: Does your company have an ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT STANDARD?

The workshop will also outline the opportunity to sign up for ongoing subsidised advice through the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) Green Business Club.

These workshops are FREE OF CHARGE and places are available on a first come first served basis so please book early. You are welcome to register to one or both of the workshops.

Please go to the link Carbon Footprint your Product & Packaging or Environmental Management Standard for further details and registration information or contact info@giraffeinnovation.com

18th of March

UKTI Symposium on Sustainable Design, Austin, Texas

Rob Holdway will be the keynote speaker at this event. The event will highlight the UK in sustainable design and encourage US companies and academics to collaborate with those in the UK who are excelling at product and packaging design.

12-13th March

easyFairs® EcoPack exhibition @ Birmingham NEC

Giraffe Innovation will run a eco-packaging workshop. The workshop will address the environmental, economic, brand and legislative drivers which organisations find make the eco-design of packaging a matter of growing importance. The second half of the workshop will be an interactive panel session which where actual packs will be reviewed by a panel of experts. On the spot design feedback will be given on existing packs and advice on what to be taken into account to reduce the environmental and cost impact of the examples reviewed. An high level assessment of the carbon footprint of the packs will also be made in order to indicate the potential carbon benefits of re-design.

The workshops will feature presentation of eco-design; the carbon impact of packaging and relevant packaging legislation. It will also introduce the latest bio-polymers increasingly being adopted by organisations as a packaging solution.

The show for anyone interested in environment-friendly packaging!

Finding new sustainable packaging solutions used to be a really daunting challenge. So that's why we have launched easyFairs® ECOPACK, the event that the packaging industry told us they wanted to see.

Visit easyFairs® ECOPACK and meet suppliers of:

• Recycling & recyclable materials
• Low-waste packaging design
• Biodegradable and lightweight materials
• Low-energy manufacturing
• Refillables & reusable packaging
• Environment-friendly printing, inks & chemicals
• RFID & smart packaging

6th of March

Envirowise Cleaner Design Seminar - Wales

Rob Holdway will be facilitating this Cleaner Design Seminar

28th of February

Envirowise Cleaner Design Seminar - Wales

Rob Holdway will be facilitating this Cleaner Design Seminar

20th of February

Envirowise Product Design Seminar in Brighton

Rob Holdway will be facilitating this seminar.

Envirowise provides support and advice to help UK businesses introduce cleaner design to their product and packaging ranges. We have found that the most effective and interesting approach to sharing design ideas is through interactive, practical workshop sessions. For this reason, Envirowise is hosting a small product design seminar on 20th February 2008 at the Hilton Brighton Metropole, to provide legislative updates and identify opportunities for design changes.

The day will include a series of presentations in the morning with an update on both existing and future legislation, cleaner design principles for both product and packaging and WEEE products from a recyclers view. In the afternoon, a practical product design session will take place to examine delegates' own products and to identify redesign opportunities. There will also be an XRF machine available for free testing of products for RoHS compliance.

13th February

IEMA talk on Reputation

Reputation is important to organisations. Many companies are extending environmental management beyond themselves, and out to their suppliers and customers. How far can a good environmental reputation help business? Is doing the right thing profitable, and how embarrassing it will it be if environmental claims fail to stack up?

30-31st January

Responsible Retail Summit 2008

Interactive Workshop: Enhancing Brand, Product and Packaging Through Environmental Design Principles

• Drivers and benefits for environmental design and overcoming traditional barriers to change
• Product road mapping and holistic packaging solutions (primary through to transit)
• Product and packaging disassembly: material options, impacts and carbon assessment
• Labelling and customer perceptions, what information do they need, to know they are doing the right thing?

Workshop leaders

Rob Holdway, Environmental Design Advisor (Eco Design), Giraffe Innovation
Terry Robins , Environmental Design Advisor (Structural Design), Giraffe Innovation
James Dorrell , Environmental Design Advisor (Environmental Science Design), Giraffe Innovation