Sun Chemical Issues Carbon Footprint Report

In order to support customer efforts to meet their sustainability goals and to do so with data-driven metrics, Sun Chemical released a report called “Carbon Footprint Report 2010,” which outlines the results from nine recently completed independent environmental analyses focused on quantifying the carbon footprint of its product lines.   
    
The results provide data that will be used by Sun Chemical to further enhance its processes to have less environmental impact across all product lines and business activities.
 
The analyses focused on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the product manufacturing and distribution phases, or the “gate-to-customer gate” lifecycle of Sun Chemical’s products.

“Our customers and the marketplace are looking for much more than the standard sustainability rhetoric; they want to know what their suppliers are doing to improve their sustainability performance,” said Michel Vanhems, Sun Chemical’s sustainability leader. “At Sun Chemical, we’re digging deep to get specific numbers to use in evaluating opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint as well as support our customers’ efforts to determine the GHG impact of their products and meet their sustainability goals.”

The analyses covered six of the Sun Chemical product lines, totaling nine products representing approximately 90 percent of the products it offers, including: coldset black and color inks, publication gravure inks, nitrocellulose bases, nitrocellulose inks, water-based flexographic inks and dispersions, energy curing inks and heatset inks. These analyses encompassed nine different manufacturing plants in North America and Europe.