Sustainable media critical for green print says Anitech

Commenting on the initiative, Yoong Lee, national business development manager at Anitech says many businesses address only a single area of concern such as VOC free inks, which is not the complete answer for the print industry.

He says, “We’re using a dual approach to reducing toxicity, the first and most obvious method is to reduce the physical quantity of plasticisers in the substrate, the second is to remove it altogether.”

The Starflex ‘Discovery’ banner media series can be printed with eco-solvent, UV and latex inks and is made of 50 per cent recycled PVC banners. This means that Discovery reduces PVC content by having the reverse made entirely from recycled PVC banners creating both a 50 per cent reduction in new PVC usage and a 50 per cent reduction after use in landfill or incineration.

A second banner product is Starflex ‘Phthalates Free’, a new line of non-PVC media that contains no plasticisers at all. Phthalates Free’s manufacturing process utilises non-toxic materials that completely replace components like Phthalate plasticisers with 100 per cent natural and environmentally friendly components, according to Anitech.

Another product available is the LB series products from LG Hausys, which are specifically manufactured from naturally recyclable materials such as corn starch that will degrade without releasing dioxin or other harmful chemicals during the breakdown process.

Yoong continues, “It’s a win-win-win situation, good for the environment, good for the industry and good for us.”

Anitech is the exclusive distributor in Australia for Star Flex and LG Hausys.

 

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