Hubergroup Print Solutions now offers a complete Cradle to Cradle Material Health Gold certificate portfolio for commercial and packaging offset printing in a bid to drive the circular economy.
For this purpose, Hubergroup formulated a new ink range, which is based on the low-migration MGA Natura series – making it especially suitable for printing food packaging.
Also, the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovations Institute certified a number of water-based coatings of the Acrylac series with Gold status.
According to Hubergroup, because it produces a large proportion of the raw materials in its own Chemicals Division, the company can “ensure sustainable action along the value chain”.
“The sustainability of printed products has been in the focus of our research activities for a long time,” says Josef Sutter, product manager, Sheetfed/UV Europe, Hubergroup.
“We want to offer our customers environmentally friendly products, and thereby help to make their products ready for the circular economy.
“Consequently, it was important for us to provide them with a complete portfolio certified Cradle to Cradle Gold for both commercial and packaging offset printing.”
In 2017, Hubergroup was the first international ink manufacturer to receive a Cradle to Cradle certificate in the sheetfed offset sector. Since then, the company has continued to improve the environmental performance of its products.
While Hubergroup’s commercial series Alpha viva has already carried the Gold status since 2018, the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovations Institute now also certified a variant of the ink series MGA Natura, along with various other water-based coatings of the Acrylac series with the Gold level of its Material Health Certifications.
The Institute confirms that the inks and coatings do not contain any substances that pose a high risk to humans or the environment.
“We know that we bear a great responsibility as printing ink manufacturer and want to live up to it,” Sutter adds.
“Taking a holistic view of sustainability, it is important to us that we meet high standards throughout the value chain – beginning with the raw material production.”
