Lake County Press (Supplemental Pre-Qualified Vendor)
NU Preferred Vendor (Printing: Signs and Banners)
General Printing Information
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Vendor: Lake County Press
Address: 98 Noll Street
City, State, Zip: Waukegan, IL 60085
Vendor Representative:
Jay Albanese
Rep Phone:
847.336.4333
Rep E-mail:
jalbanese@lakecountypress.com
Product/Service: Printing and Mailing
Contract #: CON0000493
NUFinancials Vendor #: 000021956
Category: Printing
Ordering Method: Non-Catalog
Northwestern Procurement Administrator:
Name: Julie Maul
Phone: 847.491.5321
Email: julie.maul@northwestern.edu
Description of Products/Services:
Union and non-union installers.
Lake County Press’s Environmental Signage is used in both indoor and outdoor settings. They use a variety of different substrates and techniques to achieve the desired result by printing on materials that can be as thick as 2 inches, 10 feet wide by as long as needed. They use wallpaper, vinyl, acrylic, wood, and metal with all of the accompanying finishing including indoor and outdoor installations, building wraps, SEG frames, wall mounts and various other techniques.
Pricing:
Please contact representative for a quote onthe project.
Delivery/FOB:
F.O.B Delivered
Minimum Order:
No minimum order required
How to Order:
Please contact the representative to assist with the project and ordering.Sustainability:
LCP is committed to sustainable manufacturing. We maintain an extensive and comprehensive program to recycle our waste paper, corrugated cardboard, metal plates and un-used inks.
On the printed projects we produce each year, nearly all using inks from our innovative in-house ink supplier. We are one of the first printers to use process color inks formulated without petroleum solvents. With few exceptions, over 80% of our inks are formulated using 100% vegetable oils; the remaining 20% use energy curable chemistry. This means that our printing inks, conventional and UV emit zero VOC’s (volatile organic compounds). Our ink program employs a unique software application which analyzes the ink’s formulation and calculates the proportion of base colors that should be added to create a new color for a new project. We are able to utilize 100 percent of our ink overages by this process.
LCP has instituted company-wide recycling. This not only includes office recycling, but we have also moved this initiative onto our manufacturing materials as well. LCP has partnered with Waste Management’s Recycle America to evaluate plant-wide materials that we send to recycle facilities, keeping them out of our solid waste stream and reducing our impact in landfills.
The principle of lithography requires the precise balance of two elements, ink and water. The ink transfers to the sheet while the water along with its chemistry continually returns to the printing plate throughout the process. LCP recognizes the importance of not wasting this precious resource and has built custom multi-station filter systems that are installed on all of our large format machines. These filter systems not only preserve the purity of the water used in our process but also reduced our replenishing schedules up to 65%, saving over 9000 gallons of water annually.
LCP partners with our local energy company by providing Renewable Energy Certificates (REC’S) to offset all emissions associated with the production of any product. When requested to provide REC’s we gladly perform a comprehensive energy analysis through all stages of production, calculating emissions from electricity use to carbon emissions from transit of the products. We purchase the REC’s to cover the energy used to produce each job, the proceeds of which go toward wind power research, nurturing the development of alternative power resources for the future. Green-e, the nation’s leading independent certification and verification program for renewable energy products, certifies that all REC’s purchased meet the strict environmental and consumer protection standards.
LCP partners with HAZCHEM Environmental Corporation for our Waste to Energy Program. LCP utilizes 2 distinct waste streams with our Non-Hazardous Waste. The first waste stream is our Waste to Ortek; this consists of used machine lube oil along with non-hazardous used fountain solution. Ortek is a licensed waste water treatment facility that through the process of treatment eliminates any suspended solids enabling discharge of clean waters into the Metropolitan Sanitary District and landfilling as municipal waste any collected solids.
The second waste stream is our Waste to Tradebe; this consists of used coatings, used cleaning solutions and used ink. Tradebe adheres to the Responsible Recycling Hierarchy. Tredebe sends the processed waste products to permitted RCRA/BIF cement kilns located across the country, or to Norlite Corporation, their subsidiary located in Cohoes, NY. All cement kilns serviced by Tradebe meet the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) combustion standards. The combustion of organic hazardous wastes at high temperatures in cement kilns is the Best Demonstrated Available Technology (BDAT) for treating high BTU hazardous or non-hazardous wastes. Tradebe’s subsidiary, Norlite Corporation, operates two high temperature rotary kilns that use recycled fuels and other recoverable products to produce a lightweight aggregate that is used in bridges, buildings, specialized fill, and growing media for green roofs. Norlite achieves 99.9995% destruction removal efficiency on the most difficult to incinerate organic materials. Processes are in place at Norlite to ensure the integrity of the waste storage tanks and kiln system. Operating conditions are constantly monitored to ensure that fuel is burned completely. In addition, emissions are carefully monitored, controlled and treated to prevent air pollution. Norlite sets the standard found in the new hazardous waste combustor MACT regulations for lightweight aggregate kilns.
Lake County Press partners with a broad range of organizations interested in promoting environmental stewardship. Not only do we benefit from sharing knowledge, information, and expertise, but also through third party certifications, consumers can compare claims from different manufacturers to be sure that these claims are consistent, accurately measured, and verified by outside, impartial organizations.
- Forest Stewardship Council: Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a non-profit organization devoted to encouraging the responsible management of the world’s forests. FSC set high standards that ensure forestry is practiced in an environmentally responsible, socially beneficial, and economically viable way. Lake County Press is proud to be FSC Certified since 2005.
- Renewable Choice Energy: For a decade, Renewable Choice has been working with innovators in a wide range of industries to support and improve sustainability. From Fortune 500 to small companies alike, their clients rely on their unique expertise to meet unique and challenging environmental and business goals.
- Green-e: Green-e is the nation’s leading independent consumer protection program for the sale of renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions in the retail market. Green-e offers certification and verification of renewable energy and greenhouse gas mitigation products. It is a program of the Center for Resource Solutions.
- Waste Management’s Recycle America: Waste Management Recycle America (WMRA) is a long-term venture established by Waste Management 20 years ago. Since then they have handled over 55 million tons of recyclable commodities, by offering municipalities a cost-efficient, environmentally sound recycling program.