Board Converting News, June 30, 2025

Student Design Winners Promote Scholarship Program BY GREG KISHBAUGH Chosen from more than 800 submissions, the Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) has announced the winners of the 2024-2025 PGSF Design Contest. Winning designs are used to promote the annual PGSF Scholarship Program that provides funds to students enrolled in either full-time and part-time secondary education in print and graphic communications.

Sun Chemical Releases Regulatory Newsletter

Sun Chemical has released its Spring 2025 Regulatory Newsletter to help guide custom- ers through recent changes in global regula- tions governing the chemicals and raw mate- rials used in packaging and cosmetics. The Spring 2025 Regulatory Newsletter highlights new judgments and opinions from major industry associations on carcinogen

classifications and packaging regulations, up- dated laws for food contact materials, includ- ing the restriction of bisphenol A (BPA) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and proposed amendments to chemicals and cosmetics legislation. This spring’s newsletter features several significant regulatory updates, including: • A recommendation by the General Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) to overturn the annulment of the classification of Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) as a category 2 carcinogen. • The enforcement of the European Union’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) from February 2025–August 2026. • The ban of BPA in food contact materials by the European Commission. • Restriction of PFAS in food packaging be- ginning in 2026 under PPWR.

The 2025 PGSF Poster and T-Shirt Design Contests required par- ticipants to choose one of three themes for their design: Print is Sus- tainable, Print is Authentic or Print is Innovative. Participants from high schools were reviewed separately from college participants and awards were given to each. Each student receives a check for $500 from PGSF for their winning design. “We received hundreds of amazing designs from high school and college students in all three contests this school year,” said Dianne Bul- las, Operations Director, PGSf. ”It is wonderful to see the talent avail- able for future employers.” PGSF Design Contest winners are: The High School Poster winner is Asiyah Miller, a student at Cam- The Spring 2025 box winner was awarded to California Polytechnic University.

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