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The London-based company has looked back at one of its favourite projects with Octopus energy
Citiprint, a print and signage company based in London, has looked back on some of its biggest projects in time for its seventh anniversary celebrations.
The company prides itself on its quick turnaround, and same day delivery offering, which has led to many of its key projects.
The business has created graphics for locations like Harrods, Olympic Village, and Bluewater Shopping Centre, as well as for coverage of the Queen’s funeral last year, and in blockbuster films for the likes of Netflix.
When it comes to one of the company’s biggest projects, its installation for Octopus Energy’s ‘Fan Club’ stands out for its uniqueness and impressive turnaround.
The project started with the simple question: “Can you brand a wind turbine?”, and founder of Citiprint, Jacob Kent-Ledger, immediately agreed to the project, thinking it would be for a small roof-top turbine.
Realising the turbine was actually 50m tall and needed branding within 48 hours, Kent-Ledger quickly got the help of Industrial Abseiling, a company that specialises in working from height, especially for super large-format graphics.
Kent-Ledger comments: “As far as my research has shown, it’s never been done before, and even the turbine manufacturer was shocked we did it. We’re now in the process of getting the project approved by Guinness World Records.
“There’s now talk of us completing some offshore work in the future too, so I best get used to choppy seas and even higher turbines.”
Speaking about why this project stands out so much, Kent-Ledger adds: “So many calls or emails will begin with ‘You did that wind turbine didn’t you? Bloody mental!’ It’s certainly a job which put us on the map and one we’ll be remembered for, for a long time to come.”
Since undertaking the project back in 2021, Citiprint has continued to work with Octopus, and the finished job is even featured on the wall of the company’s new premises and website.
Speaking about the project at the time, Industrial Abseiling said: “This install was no easy task. As well as the ladder climb all the way to the top, it took four of our extremely skilled abseilers to rappel down the turbine, battling the open conditions (and even a couple of drones!) in order to install the vinyl lettering to the body of the turbine.”
Citiprint is now located in a new modern premises in Hendon, North London, where the business has 2000sq ft of usable space which is quickly filling up.
Kent-Ledger concludes: “When I launched the business I made deliveries with my own car and before you know it we’re filling up artic lorries with our kit just to move to these new premises.
“No one was doing what we did in regard to same days delivery in 2016, and no one has replicated it since, successfully or otherwise. It’s quite a feat when you think most of the industry still works in 4-7 working days and we work in 2-4 working hours.”
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