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Arjowiggins Graphic commits to reducing its GHG emissions
As part of its strategic partnership with WWF France dating from 2008, Arjowiggins Graphic has committed to reducing its carbon footprint and implementing a resource-efficient business model.
The division has just joined the WWF Climate Savers programme that brings together an elite group of 28 of the world’s leading companies who have committed to voluntarily reducing their GHG emissions.
Arjowiggins Graphic is the first European paper producer to sign up and it is aiming to reduce its carbon footprint by 23% between 2007 and 2014.
Coala, a new digital European product range
Visual Communication is a top priority for Antalis. That is why Antalis has launched a new European range of flexible eco friendly media for Large Format Printing (LFP) in order to strengthen its foothold in this market.
Named Coala, the collection contains substrates adapted to all types of ink for both indoor and outdoor applications including a broad range of papers, self-adhesives, banners, textiles, wallpapers and other innovative media.
Partnering digital printing
Antalis has launched its d2b (digital to business) initiative, designed to help customers harness the full potential of digital printing. As part of the French d2b launch, the group organised a “tour de France” around nine major cities in late 2011 in partnership with HP Indigo and Canon that brought together over 500 players from the digital technology sector.
Antalis also used these occasions to present its Digigreen, 100% digital and 100% green range. This innovative approach will be rolled out to other European countries in 2012.
Improving the de-inking process for printed documents
In 2011, Arjowiggins Graphic partnered with Hewlett Packard to improve the de-inking process for documents printed on HP Indigo and HP inkjet digital web presses, which lag significantly behind standard printed documents in terms of recycling.
This mission has been accomplished thanks to pioneering technologies developed at the Greenfield (France) recycled pulp plant for recycling documents printed on HP Indigo with a liquid toner and HP Inkjet with a solid toner. This helps to divert waste from landfills at the end of the products’ useful lives.
In Morocco, the Olive Trees of Hope
While 2011 was proclaimed International Year of the Forest by the UN General Assembly, Antalis joined the Pur Project association, through Green Days, a selection of its best products in terms of the environment, in an operation having as a goal to plant olive trees in the Rif Valley, in Morocco.
This environmental project with critical added value is fully aligned with Antalis’ policy for sustainable development. The project enables 350 women in this poor and remote area to work and gain independence through the cultivation of olive trees and oil processing. Commercialized through a fair trade process by Alter Eco, the oil is an organic product, from certified organic farming. The initiative was developed by Pur Project, an association dedicated to climate protection by means of reforestation and communitarian forest conservation, which was created by Tristan Lecomte, founder of Alter Eco.