Phil@poste, the stamp printing company located in Boulazac-Isle-Manoire in Dordogne, France, has installed more than 2,000 photovoltaic panels on its site over an area of 4,277 m2, reports the daily South West . The panels are placed on the shades of the parking lot of the site. The installation will allow the printing plant to produce part of its electricity (13% of the site's needs) and will be operational by the end of this summer, says the newspaper. Phil@poste, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, prints all the postal stamps of France, that is to say a little less than one billion annual impressions. La Poste group aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% in 2025 compared to 2013.
Other printers are charging in the sun
The stamp printing company is not the first graphic industry company to use solar panels. At Corlet Numérique (Corlet group), 777 m² of photovoltaic collectors were integrated on the roof of the building to produce electricity. The integration of these photovoltaic panels into the roof was thought out when the building was constructed in 2008. In 2020, the Belgian press group IPM, which owns among others the newspapers La Libre Belgique and The Last Hour/Sports has installed 1000 solar panels on the site of its printing company in the municipality of Anderlecht in Brussels. IPM XPress print (formerly Sodimco) has become the first printing plant in Belgium to operate with two thirds renewable energy. In Australia, the government strongly encourages companies to A team of researchers at Newcastle University has even developed a technique to print photovoltaic panels for commercial use. A team of researchers at Newcastle University has even developed a technique for printing photovoltaic panels.
