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If you’re in the northern hemisphere, are you enjoying sleepy summer days, when not much seems to be happening? Or perhaps you’re struggling through cold and rain in the southern hemisphere. Either way your business hopefully is part of the busy cohort that is helping to produce signs of growth in the world economy. Worldwide economic data points to slender signs of improvement and this can only be good news for printers and publishers.
Companies who reckon that the environment and sustainability are not high on corporate agendas are missing an important trick. Actually there is no trick to it, because sustainability policies add value as well as saving money for the business. According to McKinsey & Co, a consultancy, sustainability is a permanent management fixture for 70% of CEOs. McKinsey get this number from the results of their annual global survey. This work looks at how businesses manage sustainability and related policies to improve a company’s growth prospects and add value to the business.
It’s been clear for years that digital technology has massively revolutionised the prepress industry. But for some printers and publishers of a greenish hue, prepress and digital process management are also tools for reducing their environmental impact. You may wonder, how so?
It looks like a spelling mistake but adsorption de-inking is real and apparently could be a very effective alternative to flotation de-inking. If it works, adsorption de-inking could be another positive step in the environmental sustainability of the printing and publishing industries.
Well it has been a rocky road and we met with an awful lot of opposition, but we made it. To all 66 members of Working Group 11, the international band of hardy volunteers who authored ISO 16759 for ISO, thank you for your effort and commitment. Thanks to you the graphic arts industry and its customers have a single reference framework for carbon calculators.
