Sustainability Spotlight
Sustainability Spotlight offers informative and actionable advice around environmental best practice to allow businesses to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly choices for their business. FESPA speaks to industry experts about sustainability where you can discover business opportunities to reduce, reuse and recycle materials and improve your knowledge.
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How to design for a circular economy in a linear world
Laurel Brunner explains the challenges for businesses to prioritise circular economy when economies have evolved to be linear. Laurel shares examples of different businesses who are designing products that can suppor the circular economy. These include The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, DS Smith and Vilsund Blue A/S.
Flex-Europa - a sustainable future for the digital printing industry
Rashed Abdeljalil, Business Development Manager at Flex-Europa discusses how the business is exploring innovativer ways to lower their ecological footprint and encourage their clients to do the same. The business uses eco-friendly inks, UV printing and recylcable substrates and uses digital label printers.
How is the textile industry committed to becoming more sustainable
Debbie McKeegan discusses how the textile industry has experienced various challenges and has successfully demonstrated resilience, innovation and an unwavering commitment to sustainability.
Ukranian printing company invests in Flexcel NX Wide
Ukrpol, a Ukranian printing house that focuses on commercial printing and packaging production has a wide array of customers that are in the food, cosmetics and medical sectors. The company recently bought a Miraclon Flexcel NX Wide 4260 flexographic platemaking system. This purchase will help the company attract customers who acknowledge the value of modern flexo for packaging production.
How to tackle polyester pollution with Matter Industries and Paradise Textiles
In this podcast Debbie McKeegan speaks to Adam Root, founder of Matter Industries and his innovation Regen™, a capture technology to remove microfibres from the textile manufacturing process for the benefit of human and environmental health. We also meet Lewis Shuler of Paradise Textiles who are collaborating on research and the application of Matter’s technology for textile manufacturing.
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How will Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation affect printers?
Laurel Brunner discusses the European Union’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and how it is important for printers to be aware of this and it will contribute towards business planning.
6 suppliers of environmentally friendly fabrics for Digital Textile Printing
Debbie McKeegan shares 6 suppliers who are combining sustainability and producing high quality sustainable fabrics for digital textile printing. They are proving that businesses can be environmentally responsible without sacrificing the quality of their product.
FESPA achieves ISO certification for Sustainable Event Management
FESPA is pleased to announce that it has achieved ISO 20121:2012 certification for Sustainable Event Management, an internationally recognised standard for implementing an effective and sustainable event management system.
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How to make effective sustainable changes for your business
FESPA has created Sustainability Spotlight to offer informative and actionable advice around environmental best practice to allow businesses to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly choices for their business. This article offers various guidelines for businesses to help them make sustainable business changes, access the full guidelines below.
How to start your journey in sustainability
Laurel Brunner shares some basic steps of what printers can do to begin their journey in sustainability. These steps focus on conserving resources and minimising waste.
Mimaki Engineering launches eco-friendly carbon ink cartridges to worldwide market
Mimaki launches eco-friendly carton ink cartridges to the global printing industry, significantly reducing plastic usage and improving recyclability This latest solution is another initiative by the company to support printers in reducing their environmental impact
Heidelberg joins the United Nations Global Compact
Laurel Brunner shares the importance of the United Nations Global Compact. Members include Mercedes-Benz, Pearson and Unilever with Heidelberg now joining as a member.
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FESPA UK partners with industry suppliers to improve print media recycling
FESPA UK add Self-adhesive Plastics and Siliconised backing papers to their Waste Management Accreditation Scheme and welcomes support from key industry suppliers.
What are the best sustainable fibre types for use in printed sportswear?
Sam Taylor from The Good Factory discusses the latest and most suitable fibre types that can be used in printed sportswear such as bio plastics. Sam also discusses whether using recycled PET bottles for clothing is greenwashing or not.
The business opportunity of more sustainable textiles
Giorgio Volpi, Head of Marketing at Berger Textiles discusses the various opportunities for businesses regarding sustainable textiles.
Sustainable success with interior display print applications
While the interior print market has been a growth area for several years, those in this sector are now seeing an increase in demand for sustainable work. Rob Fletcher takes a look at some recent examples of planet friendly applications and analyses the materials used in these projects.
FESPA Print Census: rising sustainability demands
Laurel Brunner discusses the importance of Sustainability in the FESPA Print Census. Respondents were all in agreement that there is a rise in sustainability demands. The FESPA Print Census provides a detail account of the latest industry trends for FESPA members.
The challenge in large format printing: cheap vs sustainable products
Sonja Angerer shares how print buyers want to buy cheap but sustainable products without the additional cost. Is this really true and what does this mean for the future of large format printing?
Xeikon and Sappi collaboration
Sappi, the world’s leading maker of flexible packaging papers and Xeikon, the top webfed digital press developer and manufacturer, are working together on a new packaging product. The paper-based material and colorant is expected to save resources while ensuring high print image quality, recyclability and food safety.