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Sustainability in package printing news, featuring Toray Plastics, Innovia Films, Rayoface NB films, Cartondruck and more.

Sustainability is steadily gaining in importance for consumers. They want ethically and ecologically impeccable products, packaged in a resource-conserving manner that nevertheless ensures their perfect condition when purchased.

Sustainability in package printing news, featuring Boulder Canyon™ Natural Foods’ fully compostable package.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, featuring Gallus, Channeled Resources Group, Harper Flexographic Solutions Tour, and Innovia Films.

BIRMINGHAM, U.K.—HP announced that print service providers (PSPs) operating HP Indigo digital presses have new business opportunities as a result of additional press features, partner finishing solutions, and expanded media capabilities for packaging production introduced at Ipex 2010.

WIGTON, Cumbria, UK—Innovia Films’ compostable cellulose-based packaging film, NatureFlex™, was recently tested by a UK leading consumer body and received a favorable review.

Innovia Films’ sustainable and compostable packaging film, NatureFlex™ has been chosen by Twinings to wrap one of its major tea products, Everyday.

Film materials have enjoyed increased usage in the packaging arena for many years now, and this trend will no doubt continue. There are, however, significant, broad-based considerations that will impact the nature and degree of its overall growth in the years ahead. A couple of these considerations you have undoubtedly heard of (if you haven’t, you probably couldn’t count yourself among the living). One is the general upward trend in oil costs, also known as skyrocketing oil prices. The other is sustainability, which is being driven by a growing consensus that we are simply consuming the earth’s resources too rapidly and leaving behind

Innovia Films’ biodegradable packaging material, NatureFlex™, is helping a raw snack food company—Superfood Snacks—to fulfill its ideal for natural eco-friendly sustainable bags to package its first product, Chocolate Goji Treats. They are a synergistically balanced fusion of some of the world’s most nutritious ancient superfoods and specialty ingredients, including Goji berries, Raw Cacao, Maca Root and sundried Vanilla Bean. Superfood Snacks will also use its signature NatureFlex™ design for two new flavors to be launched later this month. Superfood Snacks uses a range of pure, raw and organic fair-trade ingredients in all its flavors of raw chocolate Superfood truffles, which not only provide superior

WIGTON, CUMBRIA, England—Innovia Films has achieved CarbonZero status on its full range of NatureFlex™ coated biodegradable and compostable packaging films through the implementation of carbon-reduction schemes. NatureFlex™ is one of the few packaging materials that has been tested to and complies with the specification required for soil, home composting and waste water applications at ambient temperatures, as well as for industrial composting. It has now built on its environmental credentials with its new CarbonZero status. Following a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on its NatureFlex products during 2007, which was conducted to allow the company to quantify the environmental impact of the product on