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30 years of the Post-it Note
Thirty years ago offce life was
transformed with the invention of the
Post-it Note. To celebrate the anniversary,
3M has launched a number of initiatives
including this giant 5 x 5 metre Post-it
Note near Liverpool Street station, a
Facebook campaign and the Surprises
promotion, which gives customers the
chance to win more than 250,000 prizes
with special packs of Post-it products.
The fnal phase of the promotion, running
from October to December, will cover
Post-it Super Sticky Notes and Post-it
Meeting Charts.
www.post-it.co.uk/surprises
DURABLE UK has teamed up with Breast Cancer
Campaign and launched four pink products for
Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.
The Breast Cancer Campaign computer cleaning
products – Telephone Clean, Screenclean, Superclean
and theWorkstation Triple Pack – have been given an
eye-catching pink makeover with 10% of the purchase
price being donated to the charity.
The products contain Bact-O-Clean, an antimicrobial
bactericide that kills 99.9% of germs and viruses
including the common cold, fu virus, E-Coli, Salmonella,
MRSA, Listeria and H5N1 Bird Flu.
In the
pink
Shiny and new
The Cherry Infnity corded multimedia
keyboard is part of a completely new
range of Cherry keyboards, mice and
desktops from ZF Electronics. It boasts
full-size keys with a standard keyboard
layout, numeric keypad and a cursor
block. Eleven programmable hotkeys give
one-touch access to the Internet, e-mail,
music/video clips and other favourite
destinations. For additional hotkey
programming functionality, Cherry’s
Keym@n software can be obtained from
the download centre at www.cherry.co.uk.
The keyboard itself comes with a 5-year
warranty and is available in sophisticated
piano black or swish stainless steel
with black keys. It costs £29.99
inc. VAT.
Paper:Mate's
compostable pen
The Paper:Mate Biodegradable is
claimed to be the frst widely available
line of pens and mechanical pencils
made with a majority of biodegradable
components that take about 12
months to break down in soil/home
compost heaps.
Paper:Mate Biodegradable products
look and feel like conventional plastic,
but their compostable components are
a bio-plastic made from plant-derived
sugar, an annually renewable resource.
The introduction of the Paper:Mate
Biodegradable line follows last year's
launch of products made from recycled
material, including the Paper:Mate
FlexGrip Ultra Recycled Ball Point Pen
made from 70% recycled material; the
Paper:Mate EarthWrite Recycled Pencil
made from 100% recycled wood; and the
Paper:MateWrite Bros. Recycled Ball Point
Pen made from 80% recycled material.
Earlier this year Newell Rubbermaid
Offce Products brands including
Paper:Mate, Sharpie and Expo in
conjunction with TerraCycle set up the
world's frst program to collect and reuse
or recycle pens, markers and other writing
instruments.
The Paper:Mate Biodegradable pen is
available in black, blue, red or purple ink.
The mechanical pencil comes in
0.5mm or 0.7mm lead sizes.
www.papermate.com
Pedal power
Offce Depot is aiming to reduce its
carbon footprint by transferring deliveries
in the City of London from vans to a feet
of cargo cycles. The company normally
delivers 1,350 cartons of offce supplies
in the Square Mile each day.With the
introduction of the new feet, it plans to
transfer two thirds of deliveries – or 900
cartons – to the cycles. Each cycle can
take 50 cartons and make four round
trips in a day.
www.offcedepot.co.uk
Olympic cyclist Jamie Staff launches the
new cycles outside London’s City Hall.
The shape of things to come
Canon has introduced a new design for its recycled calculators. The Arc Design Series
features a gently sloping body and covers made out of plastic
recycled from old Canon copiers. An Auto Power Off function
reduces unnecessary energy use by shutting each model
down after 7 minutes of non-use, and two of the three
models have a dual power system featuring solar energy
and replaceable batteries. The frst three models to
be launched are the AS-8 (8-digit handheld model),
AS-120 (12-digit mini-desktop model) and AS-1200
(12-digit semi-desktop model).
0844 369 0100 www.canon.co.uk