Print and Packaging

The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP), the leading authority in sustainable printing certifications, announced today that Smyth Companies has achieved SGP certification at its fourth facility. Smyth, Minneapolis, MN, joins the company’s other certified facilities located in Bedford, VA, Boston, MA and most recently Austin, MN.

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Burgopak team up with Holmen Iggesund and Thames Technology to celebrate Earth Day and plant a tree in your name
Burgopak team up with partners at Thames Technology and Holmen Iggesund to support sustainable endeavours in the loyalty and gift card industry

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Last year, premium clothes brand GANT launched a circular strategy built on seven business models. They were developed with the help of Jessica Cederberg Wodmar, a sustainability expert who is also passionate about clothes and ensuring that garments have as many lives as possible.

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Sonoco Europe, a unit of Sonoco (NYSE: SON), has become a member of the Industry Council for Packaging & the Environment (INCPEN). This represents an important step in Sonoco’s ongoing effort to further develop its sustainability and corporate social responsibility credentials – and to help promote environmental awareness and decisive action in the wider packaging industry.

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FLASH DRY LED S5 Series offers enhanced performance and sustainability
Toyo Ink Europe N.V., a member of Japan’s Toyo Ink Group, today released the FLASH DRY™ (FD) LED S5 series, a new line of low energy-curable LE-UV and LED-UV inks for the offset printing market.

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Global market leader in paper-based packaging solutions Graphic Packaging International (‘Graphic Packaging’) has collaborated with start-up Mergulo, which produces a premium plant-based butter alternative, to deliver an innovative sustainable paperboard packaging solution that reflects the brand’s natural philosophy.

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Mondi’s PM19 paper machine at Ružomberok in Slovakia has begun delivering Kraft Top White, an innovative and sustainable new containerboard grade, to customers in Europe.

Kraft Top White offers a win-win solution with the strength, printability and on-shelf appeal of a white fresh fibre top layer, and a recycled fibre bottom layer.
The new machine, with a production capacity of 300,000 tonnes per annum, is part of Mondi’s €370 million investment to upgrade the mill and further reduce its environmental footprint.
The use of more than 200,000 tonnes of paper for recycling from Slovakia per year supports the circular economy by keeping materials in circulation and preventing waste.

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INGEDE certificates confirm good deinkability for UV-curing ink series from Zeller+Gmelin

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Stora Enso and packaging technology company Pulpex join forces to industrialize the production of eco-friendly paper bottles and containers made from wood fiber pulp. These renewable products will offer an alternative to PET plastics and glass. The exclusive partnership leverages Stora Enso’s formed fiber technologies and ability to convert end-products at an industrial scale.

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• Brewery invests in a further Innopack Nature MultiPack machine

• Technology can process PET bottles or cans
• KHS’ sustainable packaging portfolio continues to grow

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