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.
Certifications
Features
Greener chemistry for textile & leather supply chains
John Murphy, Technical Director Europe from Hohenstein shares how OEKO-TEX® ECO PASSPORT is a credible proof of sustainable textile and leather chemicals that affect global consumers, manufacturers, brands, and retailers.
08-03-2024
Blog
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
Features
Understanding Sustainability: Navigating Legislation, Logos, and Accreditations
The subject of Sustainability can be challenging to navigate and understand particularly regarding legislation, logos and accreditations. Steve Lister emphasizes that legislation as a compliance will be crucial this year in 2024.
29-01-2024
Blog
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
Blog
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
Features
Insite Graphics achieves Tier 5 ESSA Sustainability Accreditation due to sustainable initiatives
Insite Graphics are the go-to industry experts in business event signage and graphics. Here, they share the business’ sustainable initiatives that have helped them gain Tier 5 ESSA Sustainability Accreditation. By sharing these initiatives, they hope they can offer other businesses inspiration to take their first step towards making their own businesses more sustainable.
27-10-2023
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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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Features
How to make effective sustainable changes for your business
FESPA has created Sustainability Spotlight to offer informative and actionable advice around environmental best practice to allow businesses to make more sustainable and environmentally friendly choices for their business. This article offers various guidelines for businesses to help them make sustainable business changes, access the full guidelines below.
17-10-2023
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Certification Schemes, Energy Reduction and Brands
Sustainability is crucial for every business to take into account, particularly the certification schemes available, the importance of energy reduction and the significance of understanding your business's supply chains.
03-10-2023
Blog
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 are the most relevant certifications for printed apparel and fashion?
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to John Murphy, Technical Director Europe at Hohenstein Group about OEKO TEX Standard 100 (Product Labelling) certification scheme and the Ecopassport certifications scheme. Both discuss the steps of implementation to take to become certified and the key risks if you businesses do not invest.
01-05-2023
Blog
Time for textile turnaround
John Murphy, Technical Director Europe at Hohenstein Group shares information about OEKO TEX MADE IN GREEN product label. With this label allows buyers to easily trace the production of textile and leather goods.
10-04-2023
Podcasts
What are the 5 criteria that should be considered in business terms for Nordic Swan Ecolabel?
FESPA’s Online Marketing Manager, Kelley-Ann Young Kong speaks to Anders Jacobsson, Environmental Enginner/Product Manager from Nordic Ecolabelling, Sweden about the criteria that should be considered in business terms for Nordic Swan Ecolabel.
10-04-2023
Podcasts
The EU Textile Strategy 2030
FESPA’s Online Marketing Manager, Kelley-Ann Young Kong speaks to Marie Oldopp from Hohenstein about the EU Textile Strategy 2030, what it is and what it stands for as well as discussing which OEKO TEX standards are the most important for printers involved in textiles.
10-04-2023
Podcasts
The value of certifications
FESPA’s Online Marketing Manager, Kelley-Ann Young Kong speaks to John Murphy, Technical Director Europe at Hohenstein Group about the value of certifications. John also discusses OEKTO TEX buying guide and how it meets the requirements of NGO’s brands and retailers.
07-04-2023
Blog
Navigating the way to a sustainable future with ECO PASSPORT by OEKO-TEX®
John Murphy, Technical Director Europe at Hohenstein Group shares information on OEKO TEX ECO PASSPORT and how it can assist factories and chemical suppliers to ensure that chemical products and their ingredients meet specific requirements for safety, sustainability and regulatory compliance.
06-04-2023
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How does Nordic Swan Ecolabel enhance business opportunity?
FESPA’s Head of Associations and Technical Lead speaks to Anders Jacobsson, Environmental Enginner/Product Manager from Nordic Ecolabelling, Sweden about the value of Ecolabel certification. The Nordic Swan Ecolabel is recognised by 95 % of the citizens in the Nordic countries and makes it easy to communicate using all types of media.
06-04-2023
Blog
You don’t have to be perfect, just do your best
Clare Taylor shares the importance for all businesses regardless of their size to start their sustainability journey. Clare speaks to Nathan Swinson-Bullough from Imageco about their sustainability journey.
04-04-2023
Podcasts
What does certification mean for the printing industry?
FESPA’s Online Marketing Manager, Kelley-Ann Young Kong speaks to Laurel Brunner, Managing Director of Digital Dots about sustainable certifications and what they mean for the printing industry. Laurel discusses the benefits of certifications and how accreditation works.
31-03-2023