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.

• Series joins UN Climate Neutral Now programme
• Sits alongside community of leading organisations such as Microsoft & Sony
• Di Grassi: “Science-based and mission-driven approach fundamental to our sustainability road map”

Mondi creates sustainable paper-based packaging for Goood, Interquell’s sustainable alternative to organic pet food brands

By using packaging made from renewable resources, Mondi reduces plastic usage and CO2 footprint with innovative paper-based FlexiBags
Collaborative approach means Mondi supports Interquell in meeting their sustainability commitments

Plans are part of the “ABSolutely Circular” project
Project is supported by the EU LIFE programme
Technology partners welcome to join

ACCIONA, which has featured in this ranking since 2018, has climbed 39 positions to rank No. 31 in the world

Renewcell and Valmet have signed a contract for Valmet to deliver the main equipment for Renewcell’s planned 60,000 metric tonne capacity textile recycling plant at Ortviken industrial site in Sundsvall, Sweden. This is a major milestone in the establishment of the first of its kind commercial scale textile recycling plant in the world. Renewcell’s new Ortviken plant is scheduled to begin operations in the first half of 2022.

Neste is ranked 4th in Corporate Knights' list of the 100 most sustainable companies. This marks the 15th consecutive year that the company has been included in the Global 100 list. Neste has been consecutively included in the list longer than any other energy company in the world.

UPM ranked 22nd on the list of the 100 most sustainable companies compiled by Canadian-based media and market research company Corporate Knights.

Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) has been listed among the “2021 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World” (2021 Global 100). Konica Minolta’s inclusion on this prestigious list will mark the fourth time and the third year in a row, following 2011, 2019 and 2020.

#Greensource was created in 2020 as a European-wide effort to explain how the forest-fibre industries can make the 2050 climate neutrality target a reality. Cepi, the Confederation of European Paper Industries, and EPIS, the European Pulp Industry Sector Association, kickstarted the initiative. As a natural evolution of the campaign, Pro Carton – the European Association of Carton and Cartonboard manufacturers – has joined the campaign as one of its co-leaders, bringing the perspective of the fibre-based packaging industry, a key part of the value chain.

The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), the leading authority in sustainable printing certifications, announced today that tesa tape inc., North America, has become a platinum SGP Patron. As an SGP Patron, tesa tape joins other sustainability leaders including 3M, Cooley Group, FLEXcon, Laird Plastics, New Leaf Paper, Piedmont Plastics and Sun Chemical supporting SGP certification and promoting sustainable business practices. SGP certification is the only whole-facility certification program developed for the entire printing industry to offer credible sustainability validation by a third party.

Four experiments to combat marine litter in the Baltic Sea have received support from the City of Helsinki. A startup named Clewat tested a new kind of waste collection ship that effectively collects macro and microplastics from seawater, while Innogreen developed a green wall to filter plastic debris out of stormwater. Bioharbour analysed plastic volumes in cruise ships’ food waste that enters the Baltic Sea, and Bloft Design Lab developed a giant 3D printer to print SUP boards from plastic waste retrieved from shore areas. The experiments were conducted during 2020 in Helsinki’s coastal and sea areas.