Packaging should protect products, meet consumers’ growing expectations for sustainability, promote the circular economy and ensure compliance with legal requirements such as the EU Packaging Regulation. At the Sustainable Packaging Summit, Henkel will show how these challenges can be overcome with practical solutions.
The Düsseldorf-based Druckstudio Group has received the German Sustainability Award for Companies in the ‘Printing Companies’ category, which honours exemplary sustainability achievements in business, local government and research. The competition examines all of a company’s processes for aspects such as environmental compatibility, energy and resource efficiency, fair logistics and social standards.
The leading associations in the printing and media industry are calling for a fundamental revision of the EU regulation on deforestation-free products. In a letter, they appeal to the German government to lobby the EU Commission for practical simplifications.
Ence and ShareTex have conducted tests to recycle textile chemicals using an innovative technology that does not require high pressure, high temperatures or the use of harmful solvents. The new process will be further tested in the Spanish pilot plant of As Pontes, a joint venture between Ence and ShareTex, to facilitate the production of recycled textile fibres.
Print Equipment, a European provider of customised printing solutions, is presenting its sustainability strategy in a new video series. Under the title ‘Sustainability in focus’, founder and Managing Director Mario Panter provides insights into the extensive measures that the company has been taking for years to work in a resource-saving manner and with a minimised CO2 footprint.
Miraclon has joined the Consortium for Waste Circularity, the association promoting the circular economy of waste in the printing and packaging industry, as part of its current environmental, social and governance programme. Dr John Anderson, Head of Advanced Application Development at Miraclon, will take an active role in the CWC.
The presentation of the new Folacoat® Pure at Drupa was followed with great interest.
The response from trade visitors was positive, underlining the pioneering importance of this development in the field of sustainable coating solutions.
Thanks to a newly developed aLITE (advanced Light Initiated Thermal Emission) technology from adphos, the energy-efficient and completely CO2-free production of water-based decor on PVC films is now possible. The aLITE drying solution combines powerful photonic energy input with temperature-controlled impingement air to bring about local vapour absorption with defined moisture removal.
The Folex Group is striving to make its business activities as environmentally and climate-friendly as possible – even if this poses a particular challenge in film finishing. With a recently adopted transformation concept for more resource-efficient, less polluting and more climate-friendly production, the company aims to reduce its CO2 emissions by 40 per cent by 2030 and achieve climate neutrality by 2045.
