Recycling pilot plant to open in 2021 in Japan
Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., Ltd., the parent company of the specialty chemicals manufacturing conglomerate Toyo Ink Group, and ITOCHU Corporation, a leading global trading house, have entered into a cooperative agreement to establish a plastic recycling scheme for the recovery and reuse of multilayer film packaging materials.

Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) today announced its commitment to reduce absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (scope 1 and 2) by 30% against 2015 levels by 2025.

Pioneering technologies change the landscape of printing and its environmental impacts
Screen printing has long been an industry with significant health and safety hazards to employees and the environment, due to the use of solvent-based inks releasing VOCs into the air and mercury vapor UV lights that produce ozone and require special hazardous waste disposal. Through the development and roll-out of LED-based UV curing technology, those hazards have been significantly reduced, for the benefit of employees, customers, general consumers, and the environment.

The demand for recyclable, paper-based packaging as a substitute for less sustainable materials is increasing. Innovation leader Sappi and digital printing leader HP Indigo have joined forces to meet the needs of a changing world. A paper-based solution from Sappi that renders additional special coatings or laminations superfluous was successfully verified for the HP Indigo digital printing.

Sustainable Green Printing Partnership Presents Sustainable & Profitable Print Marketing, a 3-Part Educational Workshop

The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), the leading authority in sustainable printing certifications, announced today its participation in the Ryerson University GCM Colloquium, March 11-12. 2021. The GCM Colloquium theme is Sustainability in the Graphic Arts, which will explore both the creative and operational issues surrounding sustainability.

Award for sustainability: Platinum rating for Evonik

The EcoVadis rating agency has awarded Evonik a "platinum" rating for its sustainability performance for the first time.International rating agency EcoVadis recognizes sustainability performance

Henkel publishes 30th Sustainability Report

Strong improvements in all sustainability dimensions since 2010
Ambitious targets for 2025

The sustainability of printed products has long been the focus of hubergroup Print Solutions' research activities. Now the international printing ink specialist has taken a further step towards improving the environmental balance of its products: the UV ink series for sheetfed and web offset printing as well as for continuous printing achieved very good results in deinking tests and thus received deinking certificates. A large proportion of the raw materials for these ink series are produced in-house by hubergroup's Chemicals Division, which enables the company to ensure a sustainable value chain.

• Figures, data and facts: Sustainable action in all areas

• Interactive PDF: Sustainability Report is itself sustainable
• Public: Report available on the Arburg website

Klöckner Pentaplast launches its new Sustainability Strategy

Klöckner Pentaplast (kp or the company), a leading global manufacturer of high barrier protective packaging solutions with industry-leading use of recycled content, announced the launch of its new sustainability strategy, ‘Investing in Better’. This follows on from the recent announcement of the successful completion of kp’s entire capital structure refinancing, which is the first of its kind to incorporate an ESG-Ratchet Linked Term Loan marketed to U.S. investors.

If sustainability is important to you as a company and/or to your customers, you certainly also pay attention to sustainable solutions for the packaging and distribution of your products. But how do you communicate this? Do you assume that everyone automatically knows that your packaging is sustainable? - Don't leave it to chance and use recognised eco-labels for communication! For end consumers, sustainability is increasingly becoming a purchase criterion. Sustainable packaging that is environmentally friendly can play a decisive role in this. The best way to make the ecological advantages visible is directly on the packaging or on the display with a suitable eco-label.