Business Management - Sustainability

In one of his “Conversations with Green Champions,” Rolland President Philip Rundle spoke with Dwayne Magee, director of Messiah College Press & Postal Services, about sustainability across campus and environmentally responsible in-house printing.

The California Office of State Publishing — the country’s second largest in-plant — recently moved from its home of 67 years to a modern, efficient, and very green new facility.

American River College’s new sign shop features a range of wide-format printing capabilities, but still identifies with the Sacramento, Calif., print shop’s core principal: sustainability.

In this webinar, we will analyze the environmental facts about our industry and tell you how you can communicate them to customers.

Gain a clearer view of how companies in the printing industry implement sustainability strategies, and the difference it’s made for their organization. This luncheon will feature a lively panel discussion that works to define sustainability, and determines whether anybody (your customers, the public in general) really cares. Join in, listen, learn (and eat).

A new film from LINTEC is applied wet and provides an excellent, print-protecting solution for companies in the graphic, in-plant, and visual communication segments. Made with 80% recycled PET materials, it offers a sustainable option. PRINTING United Booth 5104.

Two Sides has successfully engaged with 441 companies worldwide to remove or change unsubstantiated and misleading environmental claims such as “go green – go paperless” and “save trees” made by some of the world’s largest corporations as they encourage their customers to switch from paper to lower-cost electronic bills and statements.

Two Sides research, carried out by Toluna, reveals that consumers are concerned about the environment, but there are some obvious gaps between consumer environmental perceptions and facts.

Sustainability stories are on the agenda at the Sustainability Strategies Luncheon: Inside and Out, hosted by the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association on Oct. 23 at PRINTING United (Dallas, October 23 - 25). However, these aren’t the “sustainability journey” stories commonly heard at such events.

According to the March 2019 Printing-Writing Monthly report from AF&PA, total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 10% in March compared to March 2018. U.S. purchases of total printing-writing papers declined 5% in March compared to the same month last year. Total printing-writing paper inventory levels increased 1% from February 2019.