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Canotec flies high with hat-trick of industry accolades

Canotec is celebrating a hat-trick of accolades as it marks its first trading anniversary in the South West of England.

Canotec, which acquired the staff and 400 clients of BEST at Saltford on the A4 last summer, helped national law firm Bond Pearce pick up an environmental award at the Bristol Law Society Annual Dinner.

This summer the firm implemented ‘less-paper’ green IT at Bond Pearce, which has 700 staff in five offices across the UK.

More than 300,000 pages per month have already been removed from workflows, and based on the trend so far it is anticipated to show net savings of £40,000 a year.

The environmental award was through the Legal Sector Alliance, comprising UK law firms committed to reducing their carbon footprints.

Canotec is also celebrating selection by imaging giant Canon as a top five partner in Europe after recording nearly 200% growth over the past 12 months.

Meanwhile the firm has been shortlisted in the legal technology provider of the year category in the British Legal Awards 2010 on December 2 in London.

Canotec’s submission focused on how it deploys green IT in the legal sector to substantially reduce paper volumes, enhance business production needs and cut print management costs.

By way of example, in document output alone a typical law firm with 100 staff will consume two million sheets of paper or 238 paper-generating pine trees a year.

Mark Allen, the local director at 15-strong Canotec South West, said: “These are exciting times for the company as we continue to provide bottom-line improvement and enhanced efficiency to customers in a prevailing economic climate where cost control has never been so important.

“The hat-trick of accolades shows that what we are doing is being noticed more and more by companies faced with paper mountains relating to document management.”

Canotec South West is headed up by Mark Allen, formerly of BEST, with David Newman and Steve Weir as co-directors.

Local clients, in addition to Bond Pearce, include legal firms Osborne Clarke, TLT, Lemon & Co and Wansbroughs and, outside of the sector, Bath Building Society, Western Power Distribution and Norland College.

Working with Mark is a team of four account managers and 10 technical and field-based service and support engineers.