COLOPs Business policy

The COLOP Vision

COLOP aims to expand the boundaries of what a stamp can be. Through innovation and design, we create new marking solutions and support people in their desire for intelligent personalisation.

The COLOP Mission

We strive to create a trusting working environment. At COLOP, employees can realize their full potential. Our shared values are innovation, environmental and social awareness, team spirit and personal responsibility. We are working to develop innovative marking and service solutions that meet specific needs.

A consistent focus on success distinguishes us. We work actively, proudly, and confidently toward our shared sales success. We all share in the success and contribute to it. Our relationships are long-term and mutually successful.

Innovation as the basis for permanent development

In our company “innovation” is one of the pillars of continued success. Innovation enables COLOP to achieve growth for a product (in fact the stamp) that is known in its basic form for hundreds of years. Since the theme of innovation plays such an important role for COLOP, the entire product engineering is managed in-house and performed by the COLOP development team.

In addition, the marketing and sales team is heavily involved in order to introduce ideas as well as cover the requirements of our customers. COLOP “innovation” is not only connected with the product itself; all over the world, there are many ultra-modern and self-developed state of the art e-business solutions available. Modern marketing approaches and optimized distribution channels complete the picture.

Ecological responsibility

COLOP produces a large proportion of its stamp products in Austria or the EU region. This economic area plays a leading role when it comes to introducing regulations and laws to protect the environment. For many years, COLOP has been making a voluntary and above-average contribution to the issue, exceeding the strict EU and nationally-imposed obligations.

The subject of the environment has been included in the “mission“ of the well-known stamp producer COLOP and an extensive and sustainable environmental concept has been developed. This concept has been put into practice in all areas of the company and has been adopted permanently.

AVOIDANCE

by research and developement

REDUCTION

by production and industrial design

UTILIZATION

by recycling

REJECTION

by disposal

CO2 reduced & compensated

As early as during product development, attention is paid to resource conservation and the use of sustainable materials. The use of recycled plastics is constantly optimised and increased, and energy and raw materials are used as efficiently as possible. The in-house photo-voltaic system produces a considerable part of the electricity required at the Wels site. The significantly reduced but unavoidable CO2 emissions of products - manufactured at one of the two production sites in Wels, Austria or Borovany, Czech Republic - are offset by investments in climate protection projects. This contains more than 90 % of all products in the COLOP range.

Research & Development

Through targeted measures - already introduced in the research and development domain - workflow processes as well as existing and new products are being optimised to minimise waste.

ISO 14001

COLOP's ecological orientation is also reflected in the ISO 14001
(environmental management) accreditation.

Recycling

Plastic waste generated is automatically collected, crushed and reused in the production process at a rate of almost 100%. Any unavoidable waste resulting from these processes is either sold or disposed of by a certified waste disposal company.

Christoph Skopek

Managing Director, CEO

"COLOP's structure with a total of two business divisions is a good and stable basis for our future growth. The classic stamp segment "COLOP Traditional" is and will remain our core business. In the "COLOP Creative" segment, we are well positioned with our creative stamp range and our mobile printers in the electronic-digital sector.”