The printing segment has always been coping with supply chain pressures. With energy prices now skyrocketing, the industry is facing a new challenge. The shortage of paper in Europe has caused mill shutdowns and curtailments and some businesses are even on the verge of closing. How is the sector grappling with the energy crisis and other industry challenges?
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How to prevent paper liner residues from ending up in landfills? Materials In Works (MIW), a start-up based in Malaysia, lends a hand in combating global warming and environmental pollution, as it reinvents residual paper liner from the label packaging industry as recovered cellulose pulp.
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Koehler Paper partners up with watch manufacturer Mühle-Glashütte Collaboration project makes sustainable, luxury packaging a reality The Most Exquisite Art
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Finishing printed products is one way to make the final product more attractive. And it's the right mix of design, substrate and finishing that has a bigger impact on sales as you probably already know. Some special methods thus make it possible to change the final product in an improved way. Finishing techniques are often not environmentally friendly though. Is it still possible to focus on sustainability and guarantee high-quality finishing at the same time?
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PRINT & DIGITAL CONVENTION, PDC, which takes place on October 20 and 21 in Düsseldorf, wires together all important topics of the graphics industry with the advantages of the formats trade fair, congress and networking: eight theme worlds, four parallel lecture series every day with 48 lectures and workshops and over 60 exhibitors. Sustainability is a main topic with 6 presentations on both days.
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Taking the traditional publishing sector into the future might be a difficult endeavor. In addition to facing the lingering threat of the “more convenient” ebooks, customers are also demanding more sustainable printing practices to keep the publishing industry on top.
Continue ReadingThe printing and packaging industry is simply amazing. Not only do they put forth promising innovations, they also contribute to environmental protection. With her concept Twenty Design Academy of Eindhoven’s graduate Mirjam de Bruijn provides a perfect example for this.
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Each year 8 million tons of plastic are added to the already existing amount of marine litter drifting on the ocean surface. This is why electronics manufacturer Dell is now developing a circular supply chain based on laptop packaging made of ocean waste.
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Image source: Toyota Mirai at Pixabay How to impressively promote the environmental friendliness of a product? This was the challenge
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This week’s future links deal with a printer with zero impact on the environment, getting 3D printing more sustainable, 40 trees at 40th anniversary, the global attitudes toward paper and the project ‘thin air’.
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