All aboard: Staff and partners at Canotec are pictured toasting a year of expansion with a party onboard HMS Warrior, Britain’s first iron-hulled armoured warship, in Portsmouth.

The digital copiers dealership recently set up Canotec London and, located between Bath and Bristol, Canotec South West.

Canotec’s managing director, Steve Weir, said: “It has been a great 12 months, with strong sales figures, two new ventures and growing demand from companies attracted to our measurable business efficiency and bottom-line cost improvements.

“To cap off, we’ve become the fastest growing reseller partner of digital copiers manufacturer Canon (UK).”

Canotec’s customers include some of the best-known business names in the South.

They include countermeasures specialist Chemring Plc, filtration giant Fairey Microfiltrex, Datacard, a world leader in secure ID and card personalisation solution, the Royal Yachting Association, surf leisure wear icon Animal, retirement properties builder McCarthy & Stone, and UK property management group Peverel.

Paper usage in UK offices is a growing environmental concern.

Figures from Canotec show that 100 office-based staff will use 112 trees every year in paper, based on 8,333 sheets sourced from one tree.

Paper usage is reportedly increasing some 20 per cent a year, mainly due to compliance, data protection and audit trial requirements.

But Canotec reduces your office carbon footprint by deploying solutions, using licensed software, which harnesses digital scanning power to capture and convert paper-based documents into electronic files for seamless digital capture, distribution and retrieval.