The technology was developed by the Sato Group in collaboration with Professor Masahiko Abe of the Tokyo University of Science, and the University’s venture company, Active. The product called Econano has a special absorbent added to its adhesive.

Etsuo Fujii, president of Sato, says, “Reducing carbon emissions is a challenge for all businesses today. But the cutting-edge technology Sato employs in its Econano series labels offers our customers a helping-hand in achieving their environmental targets, and provides them with solutions beneficial to all levels of consumer goods product identification and supply chain labelling.”

According to the company, it is possible to achieve approximately a 50 percent reduction in CO2 emissions at incineration by combining Econano technology with Sato’s Nonsepa linerless label series.

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