Environment
Laurel Brunner Verdigris Blog: RE100 on the way to 100% renewable energy
This week´s Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner focuses on the RE100 initiative. RE100 is a growing group of companies that want to use only renewable energy. Laurel´s blog shows how difficult it is to get to a 100% and why smaller companies should support this initiative. Read her blog via this link on our articles…
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Following its Biofore approach, UPM Paper ENA has reached the next significant milestone in the company’s sustainability journey, as now all its mills produce papers that are awarded with the EU Ecolabel. The UPM Hürth paper mill completed the full range on June 5th, when its products received the EU Ecolabel certificate. The mill achieved…
Lees meerLaurel Brunner Verdigris Blog: Partnering for the environment
Laurel Brunner´s Verdigris blog this week is about cooperation efforts that make our industry more sustainable. Read her story on our articles page about Printreleaf which offers tools for the graphic arts industry to calculate CO2 emissions and compensate those by planting trees.
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Blog: Partnering for the Environment
Efforts to improve the environmental footprint of print take many forms. However the only ones likely to make a difference generally coincide with commercial interests. Owners of such efforts are in a slippery position in that they potentially lay themselves open to charges of greenwashing and exploitation, no matter how sincere their offerings. But even…
Lees meer3 million Swedish kroner for ¨paper to replace plastic¨ project
BioBusiness Arena will receive a grant of 3 million Swedish kroner, 312,100 Euro, to replace petroleum products with paper solutions. The money will be used to research how methods developed by the Mid Sweden University can be used to create paper with characteristics found in plastic. The project underlines the sustainability of paper and the…
Lees meerLaurel Brunner Blog: Too many ecolabels
In Laurel Brunner´s Verdigris blog she talks about the fact that the growth of ecolabels is out of control. This growth is happening because companies and industries make up their own label and organisations that see it as a profitable business. She thinks a bigger role for GEN, the worldwide Global Ecolabel Network would help…
Lees meerApple on schedule to stop the use of mined minerals and metals
Apple is aspiring to become the first big computer manufacturer to only used recycled source materials in future. To fulfill Steve Jobs´ wishes the company has drawn up a schedule. The first step will be to only use aluminium from old computers. According to insiders Apple devices which are handed in will become the source…
Lees meerLaurel Brunner Blog: How to calculate energy use for a digital press
Laurel Brunner writes about a rather unknown problem in her Verdigris blog. Energy calculation for digital presses. She explains that it starts with the large amount of variables of a print, such as ink coverage and the number of copies. On top of that there is the energy use for the different kinds of finishings.…
Lees meerLaurel Brunner Blog: Waste and Guild
We were, as Laurel Brunner describes in her Verdigris blog, doing really well with the recycling of paper and paper manufacturers were always finding new ways to use recycled paper pulp. In her Waste and Guilt blog, on our articles page, Laurel describes how the burning of paper, especially in new economies, is putting a…
Lees meerPaper manufacturer UPM and Forest Stewardship Council join in strategic partnership
To stimulate the use of FSC certified paper and to achieve UPM´s strict sustainability goals both parties have decided to join forces. The parties had already been working closely together for a number of years to ensure UPM clients would get paper produced according to FSC norms. With this partnership the cooperation will be extended…
Lees meerLauren Brunner: Printing Plates Progress
The development of quick to produce and environmentally friendly offset plates is progressing fast. In her Verdigris blog Laurel gives the example of Agfa Arkana smart plate technology. A technology which not only uses less chemistry per plate, but a bath can cover 15,000 m2. Read more about these rapid developments in her blog on…
Lees meerLaurel Brunner Blog: What we don´t know about bamboo
Bamboo is, as Lauren Brunner describes in her Verdigris blog, a very valuable resource for the manufacturing of paper which is unknown to many. Read her blog on our articles page about how bamboo not only has the properties to save the environment and support the economy in developing countries, but can also deliver unique…
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