Business Management - Sustainability

Backed by clean energy and an environmental conscience, AMGRAPH takes a sustainable approach to flexible packaging.

During FTA INFO*FLEX 2017, Sun Chemical will introduce a new portfolio of eco-friendly inks and showcase how its coatings, inks and HD plate technology can produce packaging that pops off the shelf while enhancing pressroom efficiency.

The Paperboard Packaging Council's popular Trees Into Cartons, Cartons Into Trees (TICCIT) program returns this spring to educate children about sustainability and the role that trees and paper can play.

Mondi Consumer Goods Packaging will show its new EcoFresh pouch for the first time at Packaging Innovations at NEC in March. The fully recyclable pouch is part of Mondi's FreshTECH pouch range and is designed to keep plastic out of landfills.

With environmental concerns on the rise, two companies have developed "inkless printing" technologies that could be beneficial to printers. Packaging is among the printing industry segments targeted by this technology.

Siegwerk has published its first ever Sustainability Report, which the company says increases its transparency and creates a new foundation for evaluating its sustainability initiatives.

UPM Raflatac has announced it received the Critical Guidance recognition from the Association of Plastic Recyclers for two if its new shrink sleeve film label products, RafShrink PO MDO 40 LS and RafShrink PO TDO 45 HS.

Constantia Flexibles and Coca-Cola European Partners have collaborated on creating a recyclable label for Glacéau Smartwater Sparkling. The labels are printed using gravure printing technology on Avery Dennison's CleanFlake material.

Printpack has launched its new, easy-tear polyethylene pouch designed for compliance with the How2Recycle store drop-off recycling stream. The recyclability of the pouch stems from its single-material structure.

Never one to back down from a challenge, Dan Muenzer's ability to lead TLMI through several challenging transitions is just part of why he has been named packagePRINTING's 2016 TLMI Converter of the Year.