digitaldots.info The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner The buying of printing plates used to be a matter of balancing price and quality expectations. The three main players, Agfa now Eco3, Fujifilm and Kodak, catered to a wide range of customers from commercial printing to newspaper printers. They offered, and still do offer, plates of undeniable quality … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner One of the world’s worst industries when it comes to negative environmental impacts is the textile business. The sector is notoriously water and energy hungry and it generates an astonishing amount of waste. If you look at primary materials use and greenhouse gas emissions, the textile industry is the … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Sustainability could be falling down the business agenda, despite evidence of rising climate change urgency. But commercial and environmental sustainability are intertwined and although some organisations and industry associations have sort of addressed it, action needs to be faster and reach further. The climate emergency is immediate and net … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner There’s not a subject you can think of that doesn’t have its own magazine or newsletter and set of awards. In the case of sustainability, the printing and publishing industries have plenty to choose from, but probably the most prestigious is the Reuters Global Sustainability Awards. These have been … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner ICR Ioannou S.A., based in just outside Athens, Greece has installed a Miraclon Flexcel NX System. Demand is rising in the region for flexographic plates, specifically Flexcel NX, according to Yiannis Ioannou ICR’s managing director. The company is also implementing PureFlexo, described by the Flexographic Technical Association as a … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner For many printing and publishing companies it can be hard to know where to start with sustainability policies. As with so many things, understanding the question is actually a lot more stressy than taking action. The most important starting point has to be a complete review of your operations … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Now there’s a snappy title for you. Why on earth are you reading this? And why on earth am I writing it? Oddly enough the answer to both questions is that hierarchies of waste are important, truly they are. They help you prioritise how to deal with your business’s … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner In 1888 Kodak founder George Eastman said “you press the button, we do the rest.” It may or may not be a philosophy Kodak still follows, but over the last thirty years Kodak engineers have been doing their best to make platesetting easier and more convenient. The box Brownie … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Leading Austrian provider of security labels, Securikett, has brought flexo plate production inhouse. The company has installed a Flexcel NX Wide 3548 platesetting system along with a Flexcel NX Ultra 35 Processor. Securikett is a family-owned company which has been in business for over 20 years. They print security … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Sadly sustainability reporting is falling down the priority list for many companies. They realise it’s hard, complicated and expensive. They also realise they’ll never be completely squeaky clean in terms of their environmental sustainability. Where’s the surprise in that? Sustainability reporting is inevitably challenging, because sustainability is a complex … Read more