Industry News PHD presents smart sustainability event


Converter’s Editor Niamh Marriott was invited to PHD presents ‘Innovation in Sustainability’, a series of informal presentations and networking opportunities with the agency’s top sustainable clients, held at Wimpole Street on Thursday 25 October. With presentations ranging from the development of photonic printing to compostable packaging design, through to cutting-edge pre-press processes and label technologies, the event was filled to the brim with relevant and thought provoking content. With talks from the likes of BoxMart, the Packaging Collective, SATO, Source


Labels, Datalase, Swanline, BOBST and the EFIA, plus an exclusive presentation from Women in Packaging co-founder and PHD’s head honcho Jo Stevenson, the day was jam packed, and many promising conversations about the environmental impact of our industry started to get going. A wonderful experience to meet and great all the top players in the industry,


and to really get to grips with the latest sustainable options. Of course, a recurring theme from the event was that the technology is here and ready to rock and roll but there is a real hesitance from key players, to switch to renewable tech owing to the initial costs. This is something that must be overcome, and the industry needs to push for environmentally friendly options. After all, there is no Planet B and we have a real opportunity as an industry to drive positive change. It just take a few people, like the team at PHD and their brilliant clients, to lead the way.


Metsä Board helps create a luxury bag full of confectionery delights


Finnish liquorice producer Kouvolan Lakritsi wanted to take its confectionery into new retail channels and to help do this they called upon the expertise of Metsä Board’s packaging analysis and design team and specified its lightweight pure fresh fibre paperboards. The result of this collaboration was ‘golden’ packaging designed to look and feel like an exclusive branded leather-like clutch-bag. ”We wanted


packaging that created maximum impact combined with strong ecological values. As a company we pay special attention to the environment, for example, our factory uses only biogas. In addition, the raw materials for our liquorice are pure and natural, just like Metsä Board’s packaging board,” explains the owner of Kouvolan Lakritsi Timo Nisula. The packaging is made from MetsäBoard Prime FBB 350 g/m2


folding boxboard. Its high surface smoothness is perfect for special lamination techniques and high-quality multilayer embossing. The eye-catching package was produced by Cadpack in Finland.


Picon celebrates its Centenary at Stationers’ Hall on International Print Day


Picon celebrated its first 100 years with a lunch at Stationers’ Hall on International Print Day, 17 October 2018. The employers’ organisation represents the suppliers of printing and allied equipment and currently has 95 members who enjoy many business benefits. Bettine Pellant, CEO of Picon, said: “Our organisation has proved adaptable to political, economic and social change and each generation has addressed issues as they saw fit. I am really proud to be part of an organisation which has reached such an important landmark and one that has emerged stronger and with a broader Membership and remit. “We remain relevant and proactive, creating opportunities to speak out on behalf of our sector and to


create commercial opportunities, be that attending UK and international exhibitions for sales and growth or holding business forums to enable Members to gain information and extend their skills. We can only ever be as good as our Membership and this is a strong and proactive team who compete hard by day but enjoy each other’s company and respect each other’s views within the Picon organisation.” It was on 16 October 1918 that The Association of British Manufacturers of Machinery for the Printing and


Allied Trades was formed “to encourage, promote and protect the interests of manufacturers and producers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of Machinery for the Printing and Allied Trades.” Print, and by implication, print suppliers have faced many challenges, not least competition from other media including radio, TV, cinema, computers and the Internet. Letterpress has given way to litho and today we see digital technology gathering pace. Gerard Heanue, Chairman of Picon, said: “Suppliers should lie comfortable in their beds; print will still have a place into the 22nd century.”


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