Sustainability Spotlight
Sustainability Spotlight offers informative and actionable advice around environmental best practice to allow businesses to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly choices for their business. FESPA speaks to industry experts about sustainability where you can discover business opportunities to reduce, reuse and recycle materials and improve your knowledge.
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Sustainable sportswear: Closing the loop for a circular economy
Joanna Czutkowna is a consultant and doctoral researcher specialising in circularity within sports apparel. With over 20 years’ experience managing global sourcing strategy and innovation departments for some of the world's largest brands, she has extensive experience in product development and global supply chains. In this blog, and ahead of the ‘Designing for the Circular Economy’ panel at the 2024 Sportswear Pro conference (21 March at RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands), she delves deeper into closing the loop with circular garment business models for sustainability benefits.
14-03-2024
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The importance of gendery equality and creating job opportunities for businesses
Clare Taylor discusses the significance of social responsibility for businesses. Workplace social sustainability is derived from various categories including human rights, modern slavery, discrimination and more.
06-03-2024
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What are the best sustainable fibre types for use in printed sportswear?
Sam Taylor from The Good Factory discusses the latest and most suitable fibre types that can be used in printed sportswear such as bio plastics. Sam also discusses whether using recycled PET bottles for clothing is greenwashing or not.
04-03-2024
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The business opportunity of more sustainable textiles
Giorgio Volpi, Head of Marketing at Berger Textiles discusses the various opportunities for businesses regarding sustainable textiles.
19-02-2024
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FESPA Print Census: rising sustainability demands
Laurel Brunner discusses the importance of Sustainability in the FESPA Print Census. Respondents were all in agreement that there is a rise in sustainability demands. The FESPA Print Census provides a detail account of the latest industry trends for FESPA members.
01-02-2024
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Xeikon and Sappi collaboration
Sappi, the world’s leading maker of flexible packaging papers and Xeikon, the top webfed digital press developer and manufacturer, are working together on a new packaging product. The paper-based material and colorant is expected to save resources while ensuring high print image quality, recyclability and food safety.
15-12-2023
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12 steps to create your sustainable web-to-print business
FESPA's Head of Associations & Technical Lead shares an insightful step by step guide on how to start a sustainable web-to-print business. This offers a lucrative opportunity for printers and provides personalised solutions in a sustainable way.
06-12-2023
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The use of mercury lamps on the decrease
Laurel Brunner shares the ongoing trend of mercury lamps being less and less used across the printing industry. Governments and bodies around the world are now banning the use of mercury in products by the end of 2025.
04-12-2023
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Standards and certifications are important
Laurel Brunner discusses the importance of quality control and production excellence are important factors to consider for the profit in modern print production. Growing numbers of manufacturers are setting up are creating their own standards and certification programmes.
16-11-2023
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Points of sustainability progress
Laurel Brunner shares progress that has been made in sustainability across the print sector with a particular look at ISO standards and recycling.
01-11-2023
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Sustainability certifications on the rise
Laurel Brunner discusses how more printers and manufacturers are seeking sustainability certifications and how having certifications shows that a business has undergone some soft of accountability process.
18-10-2023
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How meaningful are goals for reducing environmental impact?
Laurel Brunner discusses the importance of resource management and improved process control for businesses who are interested in sustainability initiatives.
05-10-2023
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Are digital press manufacturers doing their customers a disservice?
Laurl Brunner discusses how some digital press manufacturers currently have sustainability policies, however too few of them have had proper sustainability conversations with their customers.
29-08-2023
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Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)
Laurel Brunner shares how the Science Based Targets Initiative aims to help businesses to develop their own climate change projects. Currently there are more than 4000 businesses who use the SBTi model. Laurel explains how the organisation can help these businesses reduce their Greenhouse Gas emissions.
08-08-2023
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The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Laurel Brunner discusses the Global Reporting Initiative which assists organisations and businesses manage reporting of their environmental impacts.
27-07-2023
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What changes can we expect as textile supply chains develop?
Sam Taylor, the founder at The Good Factory discusses the expected changes print businesses can expect as textile supply chains evolve and develop.
10-04-2023
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Are bio-based synthetics a solution to the climate crisis?
Sam Taylor, the founder at The Good Factory discusses the importance for the textile industry to reduce their GHG emissions and how implementing and scaling bio-based synthetics could provide a solutions.
10-04-2023
