Knowledge base

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? -

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Paper, the most important raw material for THIMM Group. Without paper there would be no corrugated board, the heart of our portfolio.
Over three quarters of the paper used at THIMM is recycled paper (2019: 78.7 %).

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"Green gluing" or "sustainable bonding" are current buzzwords in the packaging industry. But what does sustainability mean? Within the UN sustainability criteria and the Product Environmental Footprint criteria (PEF), not all goals are equally achievable. The best possible compromise must be found. In the public discussion, however, individual criteria are emphasised and weighted differently depending on the interests at stake. This leads to uncertainties and sometimes contradictory statements. Baumer hhs Managing Director Percy Dengler and Thomas Walther, Head of Business Development at the company, take a critical look at the issue.

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After a long-awaited testing period, the launch of prototype ‘Absolut Paper’ is set to reset traditional perceptions around paper and board (P&B) packaging for spirits in the UK, writes GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. This will be a plus for environmentally conscious consumers and the launch is likely to be successful due to the alignment with green trends. However, the production process will need to be made clear to show that the pack’s sustainability credentials are actually being met.

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The migration behaviour of digital ink systems plays a decisive role in the selection of a digital press and determines to a large extent which application segments the printing system can cover – and to which segments it could be expanded if necessary. These comprehensive aspects of migration-optimised solutions are discussed in Xeikon's new white paper, in which Lode Deprez, Vice President Technology, provides insight into the criteria that must be taken into account when purchasing a digital printing system.

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Durst, manufacturer of advanced digital printing and production technologies, is starting the EU-funded project PREMISE with the Free University of Bozen (unibz). The manufacturer of snowmaking systems, TechnoAlpin, was selected as a further industrial partner. The project, headed by Johann Gamper, Professor and Vice Rector for Research at the Faculty of Computer Science, aims to develop a technical infrastructure with database technologies that enables predictive maintenance measures on production facilities. The project runs until July 2022 and will be extended until the end of 2022 depending on the status.

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When there is disruption all around, being connected brings stability. In the current packaging environment, there is certainly disruption – not only from the COVID-19 pandemic, but also from ever-increasing competition and pressures around shorter times to market, smaller lot sizes, the need for perfect color consistency and quality control, and to fulfil corporate sustainability commitments.

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By John Blyth, Marketing and Communications Manager, CIP Group
It goes without saying; but I’ll say it anyway. 2020 was a year. Like. No. Other.

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BOBST & its partners, Dow and Hosokawa Alpine have developed innovative High Barrier, Recyclable MDO PE Mono-material solutions in response to the industry’s greatest challenge of sustainability. One such solution incorporates the BOBST AlOx Integrated Conversion Solution to produce a transparent full PE mono-material duplex laminate with the barrier performance of metallized polyester film.

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Pioneering technologies change the landscape of printing and its environmental impacts

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