DuPont Packaging Graphics has launched a multiple language website - www.cyrel.eu/sustainability - providing the results of two environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies “indicating significant non-renewable energy and greenhouse gas emission reductions” from use of its Cyrel flexo print and thermal plate making processes.
The two LCAs compared the environmental footprints of flexo with gravure printing, and of thermal plate making to solvent plate making for flexo. Data comparing flexo and gravure printing is said to indicate that “use of the flexo process alone results in significant reductions in both non-renewable energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 50 per cent when converting flexible packaging plastics films”.
The results of the study comparing thermal with solvent plate making for flexo indicate that “thermal imaging results in a reduction in non-renewable energy of approximately 60 per cent and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 51 per cent.
DuPont says the LCAs were conducted in accordance with ISO14040 and 14044 guidelines, and peer reviewed by a panel of independent experts co-ordinated by sustainable development consultancy Five Winds International.
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