ECO-FRIENDLY PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
‘Going green’ is no longer just a catchphrase. For the health of our planet, it’s essential for companies, large and small, to actively take steps in reducing their greenhouse emissions and physical waste footprint. As a #superformat printer, we’ve made a significant commitment to protecting our environment by seeking out innovative, eco-friendly print materials and focusing on lean production practices that use less energy and waste fewer resources.
PAC 12 Team Green – Sustainability Conference
To facilitate the PAC 12 Team Green’s commitment to zero waste across all 12 participating campuses, we’re proud to share a unique environmentally friendly project that we recently produced for them. The PAC 12 Team Green encourages schools to move towards zero waste and to be creative in developing practices to reuse, recycle, compost, or by working with partners to drive impactful changes.
The Project – Produce a free-standing 90″ tall tree out of environmentally friendly materials that will stand near the entrance of the PAC 12 Sustainability Conference in June 2019. SuperGraphics engineered and produced the tree in conjunction with Xanita Board and their team. Multi-colored leaves with the PAC 12 Team Green logo printed on one side and space to write on the other were also produced. Attendees wrote sustainability pledges, goals, and creative ideas on the leaves then attached them to the tree.”
PAC 12 Sustainability Conference
ECO-Friendly Print Products
Sustainable Fiberboard
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- 100% recyclable
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- Natural fiber based board consisting of a recycled kraft core sandwiched between printable white kraft liners
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- The high crush strength kraft core is manufactured from post-consumer recycled kraft waste
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- Available in 10mm and 16mm thicknesses.
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- Rigid paper corrugated construction for engineered fixtures and displays
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- 100% recyclable
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- Made primarily from renewable forest resources and is completely recyclable
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- Approved for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) certified sourcing label indicating renewable virgin and post-consumer recycled fibers
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- Strong, flat and dimensionally stable. Available in a variety of colors and thicknesses
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- Rigid paper corrugated construction ideal for
signage and light fixtures
- Rigid paper corrugated construction ideal for
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- Designed for use in interior signage, three-dimensional displays and point-of-sale applications where excellent print quality and rigid, lightweight features are required
Renew Recyclable Banner Material
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- 100% recyclable – Made from plastic bottles
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- #1 PET banner material. Perfect alternative to environmentally harmful vinyl
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- Lightweight, durable, non-woven PET banner with a textured, matte surface
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- Can be hung from ceilings, fences, scaffolding and customizable pennants
GreenLight® II Plus
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- 100% recyclable
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- The first paper based backlit material
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- This poster media incorporates 10% post-consumer waste to achieve maximum sustainability without sacrificing the critical print and display properties required in either POP or backlit shelter poster applications
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- Bright white, true-coated two-sided (C2S) backlit poster media that provides uniform translucency and image definition in both frontlit or backlit poster applications
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- Resistant to moisture warping or wrinkling due to climatic changes that often affect medias
BioBoard®
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- Bio-Degradable Expanded PVC in 3mm and 6mm white and black.
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- Engineered for 1-7 year complete breakdown in landfill
BioDegradable Styrene
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- Available in .020 to .125, white and .060, black
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- Engineered for a 1-5 year complete breakdown in landfill
Heavy Paper Board
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- 100% recyclable
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- Available from 1mm – 3mm thicknesses
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- Ideal for indoor fixtures and dimensional cutting
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- Excellent replacement for cut Sintra®
Leed Certified Wall Covering
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.
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- DreamScape® Terralon
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- Neenah DigiScape®
Lean Production Practices
Additional ways we focus on being an environmentally responsible printer:
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- Design and layout files trim paper waste
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- Always use 100% Recycled paper and materials when available
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- We print digitally which means we print to the exact quantity with zero to no waste, unlike other print processes that yield wastes of 10% or greater
- We engineer our production line-up to run multiple projects at one time to reduce energy costs and material waste