Healthy Printing @ International Cradle to Cradle Congress

Launching the B2B Materials Marketplace that improves supply chain performance & sales

The EPEA Materials Marketplace powered by Cradle to Cradle will scale up the use of products that have superior circular qualities. The online tool lets manufacturers, suppliers and customers accelerate circular performance across supply networks. We want to use this to strengthen and scale up healthy printing!

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The value of Healthy Printing – reasons for being part of the Initiative!

As promised, we completed additional film impressions from the Healthy Printing Symposium in Lüneburg: HPI network partners B.A.U.M., Cewe, EcoMedia, EPEA, Green4Print, Heider Druck, hubergroup, Ingede,Töpfer, Veolia, Vögeli, VPK Packaging and WWF Germany present why they are members of the network and how they work towards optimizing printing to support healthier paper flows.

Feel free to share the first of three videos... read more

Forum: Packaging - Healthy. Recyclable. Beneficial.

You are cordially invited to join the upcoming C2C Expert Forum in Berlin, which is organized by the HPI member C2C e.V. and will cover keynotes and discussions regarding safe and healthy packaging innovations.

The event will bring together decision makers from various institutions with C2C experts to anchor Cradle to Cradle in packaging manufacturing and use. Stakeholders from various sectors will share their experience on packaging, material... read more

Beneficial packaging made of plastics and pulp for defined use scenarios and recycling.

Dear Healthy Printing Members,

you are cordially invited to join the upcoming Cradle to Cradle Expert Forum in Berlin, which is organized by the HPI member C2C e.V. and will cover keynotes and discussions regarding safe and healthy packaging innovations.

Date: Wednesday, 05.12.2018
Time: Admission: 16:00 / Keynotes: 16:30 - 17:00 / Discussion: 17:00 - 18:00 / 18:00 - 19:00 Get-together
Where: Berlin - Aedes... read more

Healthy Printing Symposium Exceeds Expectations

The Healthy Printing Symposium in Lüneburg on September 14, 2018 was a success, exceeding attendance expectations and announcing new global initiatives. Thanks to many frontrunners from different sectors, we were able to set up an ambitious programme that attracted more than 100 stakeholders from the whole supply chain and beyond. Having so many stakeholders with a shared goal and willingness to move forward created optimism for the initiative’s... read more

For the first time the Healthy Printing Symposium in Lüneburg on September 14th, brought together members of the initiative and many other participants. The event, which showcased the first global rollout of healthy printing inks among other achievements, saw more than one hundred participants open a new chapter in healthy printing products. Among the participants were well-known printers, ink manufacturers, representatives of large retail chains and publishers as well as recyclers.

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Healthy Printing Symposium 2018

Connecting customers and suppliers to scale up innovation and demand

Location: Leuphana University Campus, Lüneburg
Date: Friday 14-09-2018

Speakers announced

We are delighted to announce the following speakers from across the Healthy Printing spectrum: B.A.U.M., one of Europe’s largest associations for sustainable business, Carlsberg Group, one of the largest brewing companies with extensive printed packaging, De Schepper, the largest printing broker in The... read more

Magazines, packaging, printing inks and office paper enrich our everyday lives. But how good are these products for people and the environment? What about recyclability? The joint report by B.A.U.M. and EPEA as part of the Healthy Printing Initiative shows how to design healthy printing products to achieve a new quality of recycling and to make the most of paper as a valuable resource.

More than 400 million tons of paper are produced each year. The global market grows annually by approx. 1.5%,... read more

The DOEN Foundation’s latest publication features healthy printing! DOEN recently published a special on social entrepreneurship, called “Iedereen doet mee, op weg naar een inclusieve en betrokken samenleving” (Everyone participates, towards an inclusive and involved society). The hardcopy of the publication was printed by Dekkers van Gerwen, using Green4Print inks, and is Cradle to Cradle Certified™ on the Silver level.

The special showcases some of the social initiatives the DOEN Foundation is... read more

In 2018, the ban by China on importing many types of waste including paper and paperboard waste came into effect. The ban is creating a crisis in the recycling industry especially in Europe from where large amounts were exported to China. The solution of course is more effective recycling in Europe, which includes more effective design for recycling. Healthy Printing is a basic tool to do that and as a result, has moved up considerably on the agenda.

New members of the Healthy Printing Initia... read more

Healthy Printing is featured in the Reversible Experience Modules (REMs)! The REMs are a traveling exhibition showcasing 70 circular products from the built environment, and their corresponding Materials Passports, which were developed as a tool to enable material reutilization.

All of the printed paper products in the expo are optimized toward Healthy Printing, including business cards for each product, flyers, and the exhibition’s manual guide. The featured printed products were printed by... read more

BOOK - The Trillion Dollar Shift

On January 25th, 2018, Marga Hoek’s latest book was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The Trillion Dollar Shift is printed on paper made from agricultural waste (leaves and stems) by HPI member PaperWise, with Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Gold offset inks by HPI member Green4Print. The production was based on an IPA (solvent) free print process by Ecodrukkers. Additionally, the CO2 footprint of the book was compensated, and the laminate for the cover... read more