The value of sustainability for companies: Roboze 3D printing

Sustainability is not just about the environment. It also includes human, social and economic factors. This is the reason behind the recognition of this great theme as an added value by many manufacturing companies around the world.

Lecta chooses EcoVadis for its supplier certification process
As part of our 2030 Sustainability Strategy, Lecta has taken a further step in our track record with EcoVadis, the world's most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings. We have just begun a new partnership at the Group level to assess sustainable performance throughout our supply chain.

Sun Chemical has released its Autumn 2023 Regulatory Newsletter, which features updates about the latest regulations and policies being implemented worldwide.

The latest newsletter features updates about the European Food Safety Authority’s final assessment of bisphenol A and what that will mean for food contact materials in packaging.

Sappi’s Kirkniemi Mill in Lohja, Finland, has successfully made the switch from using fossil fuels to renewable bioenergy to fuel the production of its Galerie paper range. After a €16.5 million investment into state-of-the-art facilities and machinery for the reception, storage and handling of biofuels, the Kirkniemi Mill is now able to reduce the carbon footprint of the Galerie paper range by 40%.

UPM Raflatac has made further progress toward a more circular economy for plastics and a future beyond fossils in 2022. The progress towards 2025 commitments is detailed in the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment 2023 Progress Report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The report provides transparency on how major businesses are addressing the plastic pollution crisis.

Two Sides, the print and paper advocacy group, is excited to announce its newest member, Elanders UK, the global supply chain service with print and packaging solutions.

Aligned with the needs of their customers, Elanders improves and optimises business processes to strengthen their clients’ competitive power. The Elanders Group operates in two main business sectors; Fulfilment Solutions and Print & Packaging Solutions, with the ability to offer customers a fully integrated solution, from printing and packaging to storage, pick and pack, kitting, shipping, and last-mile delivery.

Since the campaign began in 2010, globally, Two Sides has successfully challenged over 1075 organisations that subject their customers to repeated greenwashing messages which are damaging to the paper, print and mailing industry.

Aquapak Polymers Ltd, which specialises in polymer-based material technologies that can deliver both performance and environmental responsibility at scale, has today announced that it has joined WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme), the climate action NGO which works around the globe to tackle the causes of the climate crisis and give the planet a sustainable future.

More greenery, more sustainability and better quality of stay
An assessment of the answers that visitors were invited to give in the interactive special area Future Urban Lab during the retail trade fair EuroShop 2023, reveals the most popular appeal factors and reasons to visit city centres of the future.

CCL Industries is one of the leading label manufacturers in the world with +200 production facilities in 43 countries, with headquarters in Toronto, Canada and Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.
In 2022 the Austrian plant CCL Label Völkermarkt GmbH was looking for ways to enhance their waste handling processes. At that time their waste handling consisted of a Venturi system.

Founder of The Good Factory Samantha Taylor, kicks off the two-day virtual conference with her keynote presentation If we had to change right now to be better with the materials we work with, what would the impact drivers be to transform the industry?

Messe Frankfurt’s Texpertise Network will in future realign its sustainability event formats at its more than 50 textile trade fairs around the world. The information, discussion, education and networking formats for sustainable business will then be entitled ‘Econogy’. The basis for this is the new common identity of the international textile trade fairs.